[39] But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, the sign of the prophet Jonas: [40] For as Jonas three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. [41] The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.