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?
Then what a marvel indeed is unbelief!  It is a display of human ignorance, perversity, and conceit turned wrong-side out, that staggers the imagination and is no easier to understand than the death march of the lemmings.  That the highest of creatures should consciously reject for himself any higher eternal status than that of a dog makes no sense at all, being an unqualified wonder.