“Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”
Matthew 12:38 (WEB)
Context Reading
36I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. 37For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” 38Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.” 39But he answered them,“An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet. 40For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the huge fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.