Matthew 12:45
Off it goes again, this time to bring back seven spirits more evil than itself. They enter and settle there, causing this person to end up in a worse state than at the beginning. This is what will happen to this evil generation.
Off it goes again, this time to bring back seven spirits more evil than itself. They enter and settle there, causing this person to end up in a worse state than at the beginning. This is what will happen to this evil generation.
Then it says, ‘I will go back to my house which I had to leave.’ So it returns and finds the house empty, clean, and in order.
When an evil spirit leaves a person, it wanders through empty wastelands searching for a place to rest but cannot find one.
At the judgment, the Queen of the South will stand up and condemn you. She came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and here there is someone greater than Solomon.
At the judgment, the people of Nineveh will rise up with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah—and there is someone greater than Jonah here.
Similarly, as Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so the Son of Man will spend three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Jesus answered them: “An evil and unfaithful people seek a sign; but no sign will be given them except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
The Sign of Jonah Then, some teachers of the law and some Pharisees spoke up: “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”
I tell you, on the day of judgment, people will have to account for every careless word they have spoken.