36. “And I say to you that for every idle word men speak, they shall give an account of it in the day of judgment.
37. “For by your words you shall be declared righteous, and by your words you shall be declared unrighteous.”
38. Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from You.”
39. But He answering, said to them, “A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Yonah.
40. “For as Yonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the great fish, so shall the Son of Aḏam be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
41. “Men of Ninewĕh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Yonah, and look, a greater than Yonah is here.
42. “The sovereigness 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 Shelomoh, and look, a greater than Shelomoh is here.