31. And so I tell you that people can be forgiven any sin and any evil thing they say; but whoever says evil things against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
32. Anyone who says something against the Son of Man can be forgiven; but whoever says something against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven — now or ever.
33. “To have good fruit you must have a healthy tree; if you have a poor tree, you will have bad fruit. A tree is known by the kind of fruit it bears.
34. You snakes — how can you say good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
35. A good person brings good things out of a treasure of good things; a bad person brings bad things out of a treasure of bad things.
36. “You can be sure that on Judgement Day everyone will have to give account of every useless word he has ever spoken.
37. Your words will be used to judge you — to declare you either innocent or guilty.”
38. Then some teachers of the Law and some Pharisees spoke up. “Teacher,” they said, “we want to see you perform a miracle.”
39. “How evil and godless are the people of this day!” Jesus exclaimed. “You ask me for a miracle? No! The only miracle you will be given is the miracle of the prophet Jonah.
40. In the same way that Jonah spent three days and nights in the big fish, so will the Son of Man spend three days and nights in the depths of the earth.
41. On Judgement Day the people of Nineveh will stand up and accuse you, because they turned from their sins when they heard Jonah preach; and I tell you that there is something here greater than Jonah!
42. On Judgement Day the Queen of Sheba will stand up and accuse you, because she travelled all the way from her country to listen to King Solomon's wise teaching; and I assure you that there is something here greater than Solomon!
43. “When an evil spirit goes out of a person, it travels over dry country looking for a place to rest. If it can't find one,
44. it says to itself, ‘I will go back to my house.’ So it goes back and finds the house empty, clean, and all tidy.
45. Then it goes out and brings along seven other spirits even worse than itself, and they come and live there. So when it is all over, that person is in a worse state than he was at the beginning. This is what will happen to the evil people of this day.”
46. Jesus was still talking to the people when his mother and brothers arrived. They stood outside, asking to speak with him.
47. So one of the people there said to him, “Look, your mother and brothers are standing outside, and they want to speak with you.”
48. Jesus answered, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?”
49. Then he pointed to his disciples and said, “Look! Here are my mother and my brothers!
50. Whoever does what my Father in heaven wants him to do is my brother, my sister, and my mother.”