38

Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.

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But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:

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For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

41

The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas and, behold, a greater than Jonas [is] here.

42

The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon and, behold, a greater than Solomon [is] here.

43

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.

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Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out and when he is come, he findeth [it] empty, swept, and garnished.

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Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last [state] of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.