Signs

Signs

“The Pharisees and Sadducees came to Jesus and tested him by asking him to show them a sign from heaven. 
He replied,“When evening comes, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red,’  
and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.  
A wicked and adulterous generation looks for a miraculous sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.” Jesus then left them and went away.”
Matthew 16:1-4

Here the Pharisees and Sadducees normally enemies had got together against their perceived common enemy Jesus.
They demanded a sign that he was the Messiah. They had no faith in him which is more than likely why Jesus refused to give them a sign.
He said the only sign they would have was the sign of Jonah. It was something Jesus had spoke of previously. Matthew recording,
“For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” 
                                                                           Matthew 12:40.
The religious leaders of his day were against him. I don’t think it would have mattered how many signs Jesus gave it would not have been enough.
The same is true today.
There are many things that point to Jesus being who he said he was, Lord and God, the Savour of mankind, both inside and outside the Bible. Yet no matter how many proofs are given many will not believe.
I have found over the years that true seekers. People who are truly seeking meaning to life will see the truth about Jesus and accept him as Lord and Saviour of their life.
One sceptic of Christ was C. S. Lewis an Oxford University intellectual and author of the tales of Narnia, Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain among other things.
After studying the Bible he came to the following conclusion,
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
                                                                                                       C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Think about it