Matthew 12:38
“Since the signs that have happened,” (Matthew 12:38) they say, “were of demons, who produce appearances only on earth, you too make a sign from heaven by your own power.” (Mark 8:11) Another evangelist said clearly that they were asking him to make a sign “from heaven,” which it was fitting for divine power to do. They said this as if he could not do anything God-befitting, blind in mind — for opening blind eyes, raising the dead, and rebuking sea and winds belong to God-befitting authority alone.
Greek
Ἐπειδὴ τὰ γεγονότα σημεῖα, φασίν, δαιμόνων ἦσαν, ἅπερ ἐπὶ μόνης τῆς γῆς ποιεῖ τὰς φαντασίας, ποίησον καὶ σὺ ἀπὸ τῆς σῆς δυνάμεως σημεῖον ἐξ οὐρανοῦ· ἕτερος γὰρ εὐαγγελιστὴς σαφῶς εἶπεν, ὅτι "ἐξ οὐρανοῦ" ᾔτουν αὐτὸν σημεῖον ποιῆσαι, ὅπερ τῇ θείᾳ δυνάμει ἔπρεπεν 17 ποιῆσαι. τοῦτο δὲ ἔλεγον ὡς μὴ δυναμένου αὐτοῦ ποιῆσαί τι τῶν θεοπρεπῶν τυφλώττοντες τῇ διανοίᾳ· τὸ γὰρ ἀνοῖξαι ὀφθαλμοὺς τυφλῶν καὶ νε κροὺς ἐγεῖραι καὶ θαλάσσῃ καὶ ἀνέμοις ἐπιτιμᾶν μόνης ἐξουσίας θεο πρεποῦς.
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Catena fragments on Matthew (CPG 5206). Contents follow Matthew chapter and verse. Edition fragment numbers stay in About this text and under each passage.
English follows the named copy-text (Aegean/khazarzar Migne PG 72 extract). Other prints were checked as noted; no silent merge of recensions.
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- Copy-text Migne PG 72 Commentarii in Matthaeum (Aegean Digital Patrologia / khazarzar) (Greek · CPG 5206 catena fragments (290 parsed heads))
- Checked print matia.gr mirror of same Aegean extract (Greek · Byte-identical PDF; integrity check only)
- Checked print Internet Archive PG 72 volume OCR (bim … 1859_72) (Greek (OCR damaged) · Locus confirmation only; not used as reading text)
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