38 Then as an answer to him, some of the scribes and the Pharisees said: “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”+ 39 In reply he said to them: “A wicked and adulterous* generation keeps on seeking a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Joʹnah the prophet.+ 40 For just as Joʹnah was in the belly of the huge fish for three days and three nights,+ so the Son of man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.+ 41 Men of Ninʹe·veh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, because they repented at what Joʹnah preached.+ But look! something more than Joʹnah is here.+ 42 The queen of the south will be raised up in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solʹo·mon.+ But look! something more than Solʹo·mon is here.+

4 A wicked and adulterous* generation keeps seeking a sign, but no sign will be given it+ except the sign of Joʹnah.”+ With that he went away, leaving them behind.