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-# Connecting Statement:
+# we want to see a sign from you
 
-The dialogue in these verses happens immediately after Jesus responded to the Pharisees' accusation that he healed a man by the power of Satan.
-
-# we wish
-
-"we want"
-
-# to see a sign from you
-
-You can make explicit why they want to see a sign. Alternate translation: "to see a sign from you that proves what you say is true" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])
+"we want you to show us a sign" or "we want to see you do a miraculous sign"