Matthew 12:37-39

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

³⁷ for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.’

The Sign of Jonah

³⁸ Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him, ‘Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.’ ³⁹ But he answered them, ‘An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.