The Demand for a Sign
1The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.+ 2He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.+ 3And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?+ 4A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.+The Leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees
5And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread.+ 6Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.+ 7And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread.+ 8Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?+ 9Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?+ 10Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?+ 11How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?+ 12Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.+Peter’s Confession of Christ
Mark 8:27–30; Luke 9:18–20; John 6:67–71
13When Jesus came into the coasts of Cesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?+ 14And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.+ 15He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?+ 16And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.+ 17And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar–jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.+ 18And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.+ 19And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.+ 20Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.+