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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"And the Pharisees and Sadducees came and desired Him to show them a sign from Heaven. But He saith, When it is evening, ye say, Fair weather, for the sky is red; and in the morning, Foul weather today, for the sky is red and lowering. Ye can discern the face of the sky, but can ye not the signs of the times? A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign, and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting Him, asked that He show them a sign from heaven. Although the Pharisees and Sadducees were at odds over their teachings, they conspired together against Christ. They ask for a sign from heaven, such as making the sun or the moon stand still, as they believed that signs on earth were by demonic power and by Beelzebub. …
Western Saints
Jerome
And the Pharisees and Sadducees came to him and tested him, asking him to show them a sign from heaven. But he answered and said to them: When it is evening, you say, 'It will be fair weather, for the sky is red'; and in the morning, 'It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.' You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times. …
Thomas Aquinas
Above, the Lord showed the sufficiency of the evangelical doctrine, because it neither needs legal observances, and likewise because it is necessary not only for one people; here he shows its purity and excellence. First, he shows that it must be kept pure from every tradition; second, that through the loftiness of faith it soars above all human opinions, at Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi. Concerning the first: first, the calumnious testing is described; second, he refutes it; third, he teaches what must be avoided. …
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