25. But upon returning, it finds it swept clean and put in order.
26. Then it goes and brings back seven other spirits more wicked than itself who move in and dwell there, and the last condition of that person is worse than the first.”
27. While he was speaking, a woman from the crowd called out and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that carried you and the breasts at which you nursed.”
28. He replied, “Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.”
29. While still more people gathered in the crowd, he said to them, “This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it, except the sign of Jonah.
30. Just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation.
31. At the judgment the queen of the south will rise with the men of this generation and she will condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and there is something greater than Solomon here.
32. At the judgment the men of Nineveh will arise with this generation and condemn it, because at the preaching of Jonah they repented, and there is something greater than Jonah here.
33. “No one who lights a lamp hides it away or places it [under a bushel basket], but on a lampstand so that those who enter might see the light.