33. Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree evil and its fruit evil. For certainly a tree is known by its fruit.
34. Progeny of vipers, how are you able to speak good things while you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
35. A good man offers good things from a good storehouse. And an evil man offers evil things from an evil storehouse.
36. But I say to you, that for every idle word which men will have spoken, they shall render an account in the day of judgment.
37. For by your words shall you be justified, and by your words shall you be condemned."
38. Then certain ones from the scribes and the Pharisees responded to him, saying, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from you."
39. And answering, he said to them: "An evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign. But a sign will not be given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
40. For just as Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days and three nights, so shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.
41. The men of Nineveh shall arise in judgment with this generation, and they shall condemn it. For, at the preaching of Jonah, they repented. And behold, there is a greater than Jonah here.
42. The Queen of the South shall arise in judgment with this generation, and she shall condemn it. For she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And behold, there is a greater than Solomon here.
43. Now when an unclean spirit departs from a man, he walks through dry places, seeking rest, and he does not find it.
44. Then he says, 'I will return to my house, from which I departed'. And arriving, he finds it vacant, swept clean, and decorated.
45. Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and live there. And in the end, the man becomes worse than he was at first. So, too, shall it be with this most wicked generation."
46. While he was still speaking to the crowds, behold, his mother and his brothers were standing outside, seeking to speak with him.
47. And someone said to him: "Behold, your mother and your brothers are standing outside, seeking you."
48. But responding to the one speaking to him, he said, "Which one is my mother, and who are my brothers?"