Mat 12:39-40 | ESV | STEP | But he answered them , An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign , but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah .

a ch. 16:4; For ver. 39-42, see Luke 11:29-32; [Mark 8:11, 12]

Matthew 12:39-40

39 But he answered them, ^a“An evil and ^badulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 40 For ^cjust as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, ^dso will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.