Matthew 12:34-40

New International Version

³⁴ You brood of vipers,^(A) how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks^(B) what the heart is full of. ³⁵ A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. ³⁶ But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken. ³⁷ For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”^(C)

The Sign of Jonah^(D)(E)

³⁸ Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the law said to him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign^(F) from you.”^(G)

³⁹ He answered, “A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.^{(H) 40} For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish,^(I) so the Son of Man^(J) will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.^(K)