<p>2:18 <em>The Jews therefore answered and said to him: What sign will you show us, seeing you do these things?</em>- Paul alludes to this when writing later that &quot;the Jews require a sign&quot; (1 Cor. 1:22). Perhaps he was amongst those Jews who asked this question; for Paul would have been living in Jerusalem at this time. Time and again, Paul's preaching and pastoral work reflects his own weaknesses, just as ours should. Cynical Israel asked exactly the same of Moses, in effect; superficially,&nbsp;&quot;the people believed&quot; (Ex. 4:31) after they saw the signs. The hollowness of Israel's 'belief' in Moses was matched by the experience of Christ. And yet they still both loved Israel to the end despite this desire for the visible and concrete rather than the internal and spiritual.</p>