“There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two small fish, but what are they among so many…?”  So the men sat down, in number about five thousand… He distributed… as much as they wanted…  Then those men, when they had seen the sign that Jesus did, said, “This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world.”

Same people, the next day…

Therefore they said to Him, “What sign will You perform then, that we may see it and believe You?”

No sign will suffice for those who feel they have nothing to gain from belief.  No argument will persuade them, no evidence will be accepted as legitimate.  And I’m not even talking about the atheists.  The moochers who wanted free bread instead of eternal life were none other than God’s own chosen people.   They wasted no time convincing themselves that there is…