But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he exclaimed, "O vipers' brood, who has warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

"Wicked and faithless generation!" He replied, "they clamour for a sign, but none shall be given to them except the sign of the Prophet Jonah.

A wicked and faithless generation are eager for a sign; but none shall be given to them except the sign of Jonah." and He left them and went away.

I tell you in solemn truth that all these things will come upon the present generation.

And with many more appeals he solemnly warned and entreated them, saying, "Escape from this crooked generation."

How

"O unbelieving and perverse generation!" replied Jesus; "how long shall I be with you? how long shall I endure you? Bring him to me."

"Have I been so long among you," Jesus answered, "and yet you, Philip, do not know me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can *you* ask me, 'Cause us to see the Father'?

And suffer

For a period of about forty years, He fed them, like a nurse, in the Desert.

Or is it that you think slightingly of His infinite goodness, forbearance and patience, unaware that the goodness of God is gently drawing you to repentance?

where your forefathers so sorely tried My patience and saw all that I did during forty years.

Bring

"Come to me, all you toiling and burdened ones, and *I* will give you rest.

Jesus, however, on seeing this, was moved to indignation, and said to them, "Let the little children come to me: do not hinder them; for to those who are childlike the Kingdom of God belongs.

Hence too He is able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, seeing that He ever lives to plead for them.