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Mar 8:12 — And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

he sighed		Mar 3:5; Mar 7:34; Mar 9:19; Isa 53:3; Luk 19:41; Jhn 11:33-38
Why		Mar 6:6; Luk 16:29-31; Luk 22:67-70; Jhn 12:37-43
There		Mat 12:39,40; Mat 16:4; Luk 11:29,30

Correlating Passages

he sighed

	Mar 3:5	And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched [it] out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.
	Mar 7:34	And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
	Mar 9:19	He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him unto me.
	Isa 53:3	He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
	Luk 19:41	And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
	Jhn 11:33	When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,
	Jhn 11:34	And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see.
	Jhn 11:35	Jesus wept.
	Jhn 11:36	Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him!
	Jhn 11:37	And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?
	Jhn 11:38	Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.

Why

	Mar 6:6	And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the villages, teaching.
	Luk 16:29	Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
	Luk 16:30	And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.
	Luk 16:31	And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
	Luk 22:67	Art thou the Christ? tell us. And he said unto them, If I tell you, ye will not believe:
	Luk 22:68	And if I also ask [you], ye will not answer me, nor let [me] go.
	Luk 22:69	Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God.
	Luk 22:70	Then said they all, Art thou then the Son of God? And he said unto them, Ye say that I am.
	Jhn 12:37	But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him:
	Jhn 12:38	That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?
	Jhn 12:39	Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,
	Jhn 12:40	He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with [their] eyes, nor understand with [their] heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
	Jhn 12:41	These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.
	Jhn 12:42	Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess [him], lest they should be put out of the synagogue:
	Jhn 12:43	For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

There

	Mat 12:39	But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
	Mat 12:40	For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
	Mat 16:4	A 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.
	Luk 11:29	And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.
	Luk 11:30	For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.

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Scott, Thomas. "Mark 8:12," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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