Pharisees and Sadducees. See note on Matthew 3:7. They wanted to trap him. They had already made up their minds about Jesus, and they had rejected the miracles he had just done. Now they ask for a "sign from heaven" which only God could do to "prove" to them that he works by God's power. (See 1 Corinthians 1:22.)

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Old Testament