| Samuel F. Hussey - Society of Friends - 1821 - 256 pages
...and pharisees answered, saying, we would see a sign from thee, but he answered and said unto them, an evil, and adulterous generation, seeketh after...shall be no sign given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas." It can no where be found in scripture that any had a right to demand any outward test... | |
| Baptist Wriothesley Noel (hon.) - Miracles - 1831 - 40 pages
...only deserve, as Piscator remarked, the rebuke which our Lord gave to the unbelievers of his day : "An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign, and there shall be no sign given unto it." If they will, in contempt of Scripture, maintain, by the sanction of pretended miracles,... | |
| James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, James Handasyd Perkins - Unitarianism - 1838 - 370 pages
...Pharisees answered saying, Master we would see a sign from thee. " But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign, and there shall be no sign given unto it, &c." (Matt. xii. 33, 39.) " Some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub, prince... | |
| Jesus Christ - 1840 - 244 pages
...place. The Pharisees, with their usual perversity, began to demand some sign from him, but he replied " An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a...shall be no sign given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly, so shall the Son... | |
| James Dore - 1840 - 78 pages
...of the Pharisees said, Master we would see • c sign from thee — He answered and said unto them. An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a...shall be no sign given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly, so," reckoning a... | |
| Universalism - 1844 - 712 pages
...Pharisees answered, saying Master, we would see a sign from thee. But he answered and said to them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a...shall be no sign given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's (or fish's) belly, so shall... | |
| John Smith (of Glasgow.) - 1849 - 430 pages
...therefore, might he turn from them with an aspect of pity and rebuke, while he thus addressed them, " An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a...there shall be no sign given to it but the sign of the prophet Jonas," &c. On the second head it was remarked, " We," says the apostle, " preach Christ crucified... | |
| Thomas Goodwin (headmaster.) - 1855 - 386 pages
...pronoun which is substituted for the noun — " My people do not consider, they have not known me;" "An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign, and there shall be no sign given to it." 14. Two or more singular nouns, connected by or or nor, require the verb and pronoun to be in the singular... | |
| Brooke Foss Westcott - Bible - 1860 - 530 pages
...in three days I will raise it up.' ' An evil and adulterous generation,' He said, in another place, 'seeketh after a sign; and there shall be no sign given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas1.' In both cases the manner, the thought, the lesson is the same. We feel that both are... | |
| Thomas Goodwin - Puritans - 1864 - 528 pages
...asking of him a sign, who had given them so many, to testify invincibly that ho was their Messiah, ' An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a...shall be no sign given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas : for as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly, so shall the Son... | |
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