30 They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work?



Ver. 30. What sign showest thou?] sc. From heaven; such as manna was {See Trapp on "Mat_12:38"} for otherwise, they lacked no signs. But Christ’s doctrine discontented them: and hence these peevish questions, or cavils rather, all to slip collar. In the kingdom of Congo, in Africa, the Portuguese, at their first arrival, finding the people to be heathens and without God, did induce them to a profession of Christ, and to be baptized in great abundance, allowing for the principles of religion; until such time as the priests pressed them to lead their lives according to their profession; which the most part of them in no case enduring, they returned back again to their gentilism, forgetting also soon after the very names they received when they were baptized.