John 2:18
Good News Translation
The Jewish authorities came back at him with a question, "What miracle can you perform to show us that you have the right to do this?"

New Revised Standard Version
The Jews then said to him, “What sign can you show us for doing this?”

Contemporary English Version
The Jewish leaders asked Jesus, "What miracle will you work to show us why you have done this?"

New American Bible
At this the Jews answered and said to him, “What sign can you show us for doing this?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Jews, therefore, answered, and said to him: What sign dost thou shew unto us, seeing thou dost these things?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The Jews, therefore, answered, and said to him: What sign dost thou shew unto us, seeing thou dost these things?

What.

John 6:30 They said therefore to him: What sign therefore dost thou shew that we may see and may believe thee? What dost thou work?

Matthew 12:38 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying: Master, we would see a sign from thee.

*etc:

Matthew 16:1-4 And there came to him the Pharisees and Sadducees tempting: and they asked him to shew them a sign from heaven. . . .

Mark 8:11 And the Pharisees came forth and began to question with him, asking him a sign from heaven, tempting him.

Luke 11:29 And the multitudes running together, he began to say: This generation is a wicked generation. It asketh a sign: and a sign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.

seeing.

John 1:25 And they asked him and said to him: Why then dost thou baptize, if thou be not Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?

Matthew 21:23 And when he was come into the temple, there came to him, as he was teaching, the chief priests and ancients of the people, saying: By what authority dost thou these things? And who hath given thee this authority?

Mark 11:27,28 And they come again to Jerusalem. And when he was walking in the temple, there come to him the chief priests and the scribes and the ancients. . . .

Luke 20:1,2 And it came to pass that on one of the days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes, with the ancients, met together, . . .

Acts 4:7 And setting them in the midst, they asked: By what power or by what name, have you done this?

Acts 5:28 Saying: Commanding, we commanded you that you should not teach in this name. And behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine: and you have a mind to bring the blood of this man upon us.

Context
Jesus Cleanses the Temple
17And his disciples remembered, that it was written: The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up. 18The Jews, therefore, answered, and said to him: What sign dost thou shew unto us, seeing thou dost these things? 19Jesus answered and said to them: Destroy this temple; and in three days I will raise it up.…
Cross References
Exodus 7:9
When Pharao shall say to you, Shew signs; thou shalt say to Aaron: Take thy rod, and cast it down before Pharao, and it shall be turned into a serpent.

1 Kings 13:3
And he gave a sign the same day, saying: This shall be the sign, that the Lord hath spoken: Behold the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it, shall be poured out.

Matthew 12:38
Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying: Master, we would see a sign from thee.

John 1:19
And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites to him, to ask him: Who art thou?

John 2:17
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