Catholic Public Domain Version

Matthew 12:34-39 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

34. Progeny of vipers, how are you able to speak good things while you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

35. A good man offers good things from a good storehouse. And an evil man offers evil things from an evil storehouse.

36. But I say to you, that for every idle word which men will have spoken, they shall render an account in the day of judgment.

37. For by your words shall you be justified, and by your words shall you be condemned."

38. Then certain ones from the scribes and the Pharisees responded to him, saying, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from you."

39. And answering, he said to them: "An evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign. But a sign will not be given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.