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Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, Teacher, 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 it but the sign of Jonah the prophet:

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for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

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The men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah and behold, a greater than Jonah is here.

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

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But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passeth through waterless places, seeking rest, and findeth it not.

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Then he saith, I will return into my house 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 evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man becometh worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this evil generation.