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Matthew 12:35-40 New International Version Anglicized (NIVUK)

35. A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him.

36. But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken.

37. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.’

38. Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the law said to him, ‘Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.’

39. He answered, ‘A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

40. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.