Then certain. The demand is only made by a portion of those present, who, according to Luke 11:16, were not the same as those who spoke our Luke 11:24. Of the scribes and of the (Revised Version omits the) Pharisees.
They are represented as forming but one party (Matthew 5:20, note). Answered (him, Revised Version, with the manuscripts). It is worth noticing that the insertion of the pronoun makes the passage more like Matthew 16:1 and parallels.
Saying, Master ( διδάσκαλε); Matthew 8:19, note. Only in this place is their request given verbally. We would see ( θέλομεν... ἰδεῖν). Observe that their language is rather brusque; they express their own wish regardless of him.
But they may have intended it only as a plain statement of the difficulty they felt in believing him. They wished to see a sign first. A sign. More than a miracle of healing, however wonderful; they desired, as expressly said in Matthew 16:1; Mark 8:11; Luke 11:16, a sign from heaven, presumably some portent in the sky, which should be a sign of his mission (cf.
1 Corinthians 1:22; John 4:48). From thee; i.e. happening, not accidentally, but at thy command.