Matthew 12:38-44

³⁸Then some of the scribes and Pharisees reacted saying, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”

³⁹But in answer He said to them: “A malignant and adulterous generation seeks a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

⁴⁰For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the sea monster, so will the Son of the Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

⁴¹Ninevite men will arise with this generation at the judgment and will condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and really, a greater than Jonah is here.

⁴²The queen of the South will be raised with this generation at the judgment and she will condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and really, a greater than Solomon is here.

⁴³“Now when an unclean spirit demon goes out from a man, it goes through arid places looking for rest, but finds none.

⁴⁴Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from where I came.’ And coming it finds it unoccupied, swept and put in order.