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One can say something against the Son of Man and be forgiven; but whoever keeps on speaking against the Ruach HaKodesh will never be forgiven, neither in the `olam hazeh nor in the `olam haba.
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"If you make a tree good, its fruit will be good; and if you make a tree bad, its fruit will be bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.
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You snakes! How can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what overflows from the heart.
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The good person brings forth good things from his store of good, and the evil person brings forth evil things from his store of evil.
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Moreover, I tell you this: on the Day of Judgment people will have to give account for every careless word they have spoken;
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for by your own words you will be acquitted, and by your own words you will be condemned."
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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.