READ Matthew 16 COMMENTARY: : 1        One day the Pharisees and Sadducees came to test Jesus, demanding that he show them a miraculous sign from heaven to prove his authority. (3985 “test” [peirazo] means tempt, to prove, to trap, examine, assay, or to learn the true nature or character of.) DEVOTION:  False religious leaders didn’t want to believe anything that Jesus taught. They thought HE was a false teacher. They came to HIM and demanded HE show from where HE received HIS authority. They wanted HIM to give them proof that HE was the Messiah. They wanted their minds to be satisfied that HE was genuine article. They wanted HIM to follow their rules. Jesus was not about to do that. HE told them that HE wouldn’t give them a sign of authority. HE would only tell them that Jonah was…