Why does this generation seek a sign? Amen, I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation.

Jesus is exasperated at this request, not because He is impatient, or intollerant of questions, but because these people, with whom He is conversing, are the pharisees. These temple leaders are supposed to be the keepers of the law, and they should recognize more than everyone who the messiah is, and what the signs of the messiah would look like, but instead they want even more signs. Jesus, in the passage immediately before this on, has just fed 4000 people, and before that 5000 people. He has also performed multiple miracles, and healings. The deaf hear, the mute speak, the crippled leap like stags. Jesus is the complete and total fulfillment of the prophecies of Isaiah, and Jeremiah.

If anyone should know this, it should be the pharisees, but instead of rejoicing that the messiah has come and recognizing that the lord is here to save them, they ask for more proof, and they ask for it, on demand. Jesus is not a street magician and He is not going to do miracles on demand. So for those that are hard-hearted, and not easily convinced, they will have to wait until the resurrection, and even then only some will believe.

But you must understand that the miracles and healings were not a parlor trick, or a passing fancy, they are the true fulfillment of prophecy, and they represent the real nature of Jesus as the one true God that has come to heal our illnesses, and bring our souls up into salvation.

Oh lord, you who have worked so many miracles in my life, I love you, and I believe in you, thank you for all the blessings that you have poured out on my life. I truly am not worthy, but I am so very grateful. Amen.