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But he answered them,
1“An evil and
2adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
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For
3just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish,
4so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
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5The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and
6condemn it, for
7they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold,
8something greater than Jonah is here.