If they cannot understand the spiritual tokens, they cannot have others.
They would fain see the sign of Jonah, who lay three days in the whale's belly?
Be it so.

They shall see how the Son of Man, after being buried for three days, shall live again." Judas shook his head over such talk.

"That doesn't help much." But the others, especially John, James and Simon, did not think about the kingdom of the Messiah, or about earthly power; their hearts were filled with love for the Master.

Yet they, too, had their own temptations.

They often talked together of that other world where Jesus would be Eternal King, and where they--they who firmly adhered to Him--would share His glory.