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But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like to children, that sit in the marketplace and call to their associates,

The people of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment against this generation, and will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and lo, a greater than Jonah is here.

The queen of the south will stand up in the judgment against this generation, and will condemn it: for she came from the extremities of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and lo, a superior to Solomon is here.

So it goeth and taketh with it seven other spirits, worse than itself, and they enter and dwell in it; and the end of that man is worse than his beginning. So will it be to this evil generation.

Verily I say to you, that all these things will come upon this generation.

Verily I say to you, That this generation shall not pass away, till all these things shall be.

And he sighed with his breath, and said: Why doth this generation seek after a sign? Verily I say to you, No sign will be given to this generation.

For, whoever shall be ashamed of me, and of my words, in this sinful and adulterous generation, of him also will the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father, with his holy angels.

Verily I say to you, That this generation shall not pass away, until all these things occur.

To what, therefore, shall I compare this generation? and to what are they like?

And when multitudes were assembled, he began to say: This evil generation seeketh a sign; and no sign will be given it, but the sign of Jonah the prophet.

For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also will the Son of man be a sign to this generation.

The queen of the south will stand up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and will condemn them; for she came from the other side of the earth, to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and lo, one superior to Solomon is here.

The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and lo, one superior to Jonah is here.

that from this generation may be required, the blood of all the prophets, which hath been shed since the world was created;

from the blood of Abel, to the blood of Zachariah who was slain between the temple and the altar. Yea, say I to you: It will be required of this generation.

And our Lord praised the unrighteous steward, for having acted sagaciously: for the children of this world are more sagacious than the children of light, in this their generation.

But, previously, he is to suffer many things, and to be rejected by this generation.

Verily I say to you, That this generation will not pass away, until all these things occur.

And in many other words he testified to them, and entreated of them, saying: Live ye from this perverse generation.