The Signs of the Times

16 And when[a] the Pharisees and Sadducees came to test him,[b] they asked him to show them a sign from heaven. So he answered and[c] said to them, “When[d] evening comes you say, ‘It will be fair weather because the sky is red,’ and early in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy weather, because the sky is red and[e] darkening.’ You know how to evaluate correctly the appearance of the sky, but you are not able to evaluate[f] the signs of the times.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 16:1 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“came”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Matthew 16:1 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  3. Matthew 16:2 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“answered”) has been translated as a finite verb
  4. Matthew 16:2 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“comes”)
  5. Matthew 16:3 Here “and” is supplied in the translation because of English style
  6. Matthew 16:3 Here “to evaluate” is an implied repetition of the verb earlier in the verse