16 Here the Pharisees and Sadducees approached him, and to test him, they asked him to display to them a sign from heaven.+ 2 In reply he said to them: “When evening falls, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is fire-red,’+ 3 and in the morning, ‘It will be wintry, rainy weather today, for the sky is fire-red but gloomy.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but the signs of the times you cannot interpret.