"It is a wicked and immoral age that is hankering for a spectacular sign, so no sign will be given it but the sign of Jonah." Then He left them and went away.

"But to what can I compare the leaders of this age? They are like little children sitting in the market places and calling to their fellows in the game,

But He answered, "Only a wicked and treacherous age is hankering for a spectacular sign, and no sign will be given it but the sign of the prophet Jonah.

The men of Nineveh will rise with the leaders of this age at the judgment and condemn them, for they turned to the message preached by Jonah, and there is more than Jonah here!

The queen of the south will rise with the leaders of this age at the judgment and condemn them, for she came from the farthest limits of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and there is more than Solomon here!

"Then it goes and gets seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and make their home there, and so the end of that man is worse than the beginning. This is the way it will be with the wicked leaders of this age."

The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the close of the age, the reapers are angels.

Just as the wild wheat plants are gathered and burned up, so it will be at the close of the age.

So it will be at the close of the age; the angels will go out and separate the wicked from the upright,

I solemnly say to you, all this will come upon this age!

While He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came up to Him by themselves, and said, "Tell us when this is to take place, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age."

I solemnly say to you, the present age will not pass away before all this takes place.

and teach them to practice all the commands that I have given you. And I myself will surely be with you all the days, down to the very close of an age."