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Joh 2:18. Τί σημεῖον, what sign) And yet this very act was a σημεῖον, sign, which Jesus had miraculously wrought. [Of how great a number do you imagine there would be need, if all the buyers and sellers had to be immediately driven out of any market-place!-V. g. And on that account, indeed, that act was the more marvellous, inasmuch as Jesus, having just come from His baptism, had not yet ceased to be a stranger to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.-Harm., p. 161.] They require signs, to be proved by signs. They showed the same perversity, ch. Joh 6:30, [After His miracle of feeding 5000, they said] “What sign showest Thou then, that we may see and believe Thee?” Mat 21:23, “The chief priests came unto Him, as He was teaching in the temple, and said, By what authority doest Thou these things? and who gave Thee this authority?”-ὅτι) seeing that, since.