Please read the passage before the commentary.
When someone trusts another, no sign is needed. The relationship is itself adequate sign. Each person can see in the other signs of the relationship.
When a relationship has started to fail, then one of other begin looking for signs and, perhaps, need sign to support the growing suspicions about the relationship.
We are told that the Pharisees were asking for a sign to test Jesus. We learn in this that this is not a loving, trust-filled relationship. Jesus, therefore, refuses to give a sign. Besides, a sign given under such duress would become an anti-sign and would be useless in proving anything.
To one who trusts, every fiber of the relationship becomes a sign drawing those in the relationship more deeply into the union. In these cases the fact of the relationship itself becomes the sign.
This is the relationship the Lord Jesus wants with each one of us. It is the trust shown in the relationship that is the faith Jess demands of each of us.
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