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At this some of the Torah-teachers said, "Rabbi, we want to see a miraculous sign from you."
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He replied, "A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign? No! None will be given to it but the sign of the prophet Yonah.
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For just as Yonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea-monster,f so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the depths of the earth.
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The people of Ninveh will stand up at the Judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they turned from their sins to God when Yonah preached, but what is here now is greater than Yonah.
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The Queen of the South will stand up at the Judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Shlomo, but what is here now is greater than Shlomo.
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"When an unclean spirit comes out of a person, it travels through dry country seeking rest and does not find it.
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Then it says to itself, `I will return to the house I left.' When it arrives, it finds the house standing empty, swept clean and put in order.
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Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they come and live there -- so that in the end, the person is worse off than he was before. This is how it will be for this wicked generation."
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He was still speaking to the crowd when his mother and brothers appeared outside, asking to talk with him.
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But to the one who had informed him he replied, "Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?"