⁹ “When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Perform a wonder,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, and it will become a snake.’ ”^(A)

¹⁸ The Jews then said to him, “What sign can you show us for doing this?”^(A)

¹¹ “Ask a sign of the Lord your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven.”^(A)

² The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A staff.”^(A)

³⁰ So they said to him, “What sign are you going to give us, then, so that we may see it and believe you? What work are you performing?^(A)

¹⁷ Take in your hand this staff, with which you shall perform the signs.”^(A)

¹³ So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night. When morning came, the east wind had brought the locusts.

³⁸ But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand^[a] that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”^(A)

³⁹ But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.^(A)

³ speak and say: Thus says the Lord God: