Signs

Genesis 1:14-16

Then God said, "Let there be lights in the sky to separate day from night.  These lights will be used for signs, seasons, days, and years.  They will be in the sky to give light to the earth."  And it happened.  So God made the two large lights.  He made the brighter light to rule the day and made the smaller light to rule the night.  He also made the stars.

Isaiah 7:10-17

Then the Lord spoke to Ahaz again, saying, "Ask for a sign from the Lord your God to prove to yourself that these things are true.  It may be a sign from as deep as the place of the dead or as high as the heavens."  But Ahaz said, "I will not ask for a sign or test the Lord."

Then Isaiah said, "Ahaz, descendant of David, listen carefully!  Isn't it bad enough that you wear out the patience of people?  Do you also have to wear out the patience of my God?  The Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be pregnant.  She will have a son, and she will name him Immanuel.  He will be eating milk curds and honey when he learns to reject what is evil and to choose what is good.  You are afraid of the kings of Israel and Aram now.  But before the child learns to choose good and reject evil, the lands of Israel and Aram will be empty.  The Lord will bring troubled times to you, your people, and to the people of your father's family.  They will be worse than anything that has happened since Israel separated from Judah.  The Lord will bring the king of Assyria to fight against you.”

Matthew 12:38-42

Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the law answered Jesus, saying, "Teacher, we want to see you work a miracle as a sign."

Jesus answered, "Evil and sinful people are the ones who want to see a miracle for a sign.  But no sign will be given to them, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.   Jonah was in the stomach of the big fish for three days and three nights.  In the same way, the Son of Man will be in the grave three days and three nights.  On the Judgment Day the people from Nineveh will stand up with you people who live now, and they will show that you are guilty.  When Jonah preached to them, they were sorry and changed their lives.  And I tell you that someone greater than Jonah is here. On the Judgment Day, the Queen of the South will stand up with you people who live today.  She will show that you are guilty, because she came from far away to listen to Solomon's wise teaching.  And I tell you that someone greater than Solomon is here.

Matthew 16:1-4

The Pharisees and Sadducees came to Jesus, wanting to trick him.  So they asked him to show them a miracle from God.

Jesus answered, "At sunset you say we will have good weather, because the sky is red.  And in the morning you say that it will be a rainy day, because the sky is dark and red.  You see these signs in the sky and know what they mean.  In the same way, you see the things that I am doing now, but you don't know their meaning.  Evil and sinful people ask for a miracle as a sign, but they will not be given any sign, except the sign of Jonah."  Then Jesus left them and went away.

John 20:30-31

And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.

1 Corinthians 1:18-25

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.  For it is written:

      “ I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,

      And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”

Where is the wise?  Where is the scribe?  Where is the disputer of this age?  Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?  For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.  For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.  Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.