Mark 8:11

Jesus answering, said to him, “It has been said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’ ”

A certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.”

Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’ ”

The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.

Yahweh sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.

About Levi he said, “Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one, whom you proved at Massah, with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah.

Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land?

The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!

At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked Yahweh to wrath.

They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

But Ahaz said, “I won’t ask. I won’t tempt Yahweh.”

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”

Nevertheless even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,

Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed.”

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of these.

“When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘Perform a miracle!’ then you shall tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, and it will become a serpent.’ ”

because in the strife of the congregation, you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, to honor me as holy at the waters before their eyes.” (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)

when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.

There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has worked toward me.

“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.

When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, “This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah, the prophet.

lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.

Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?

As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,

When they had stood Peter and John in the middle of them, they inquired, “By what power, or in what name, have you done this?”

God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?

where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my deeds for forty years.

He said, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?” Moses was afraid, and said, “Surely this thing is known.”

because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.

When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?”

Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven.

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”

and because he didn’t need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy

Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ part stood up, and contended, saying, “We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let’s not fight against God!”

For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,

don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”

He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us, or not?”

You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, “By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?”

Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.

But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test me, you hypocrites?

On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,

The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?”

He asked the scribes, “What are you asking them?”

Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

Shall we give, or shall we not give?” But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, “Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius, that I may see it.”

Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

The Jews therefore answered him, “What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?”

Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe.”

They said therefore to him, “What then do you do for a sign, that we may see and believe you? What work do you do?

Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

But Peter asked her, “How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”

Let’s not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.