Verse 56
The people could predict future weather from present signs, but they could not see that the events associated with Jesus’ ministry indicated the arrival of Messiah (cf. Matthew 16:2-3). The present time was one of change and crisis. By calling His hearers hypocrites Jesus was saying that He recognized that their professed inability to recognize Messiah’s appearance was unreal. It was not that they could not see that He was the Messiah, but they did not want to see it in spite of the evidence.
"They understood the winds of earth, but not the winds of God; they could discern the sky, but not the heavens." [Note: Morris, p. 220.]
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