"And this is a sign to you; You shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling-clothes lying in a manger."

"Behold this child is set for the falling and rising up of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

Others, tempting him, kept seeking from him a sign from heaven.

When the crowd were beginning to throng about him he proceeded to say. "This is an evil generation! It seeks a sign, and there shall be no sign be given to it except the sign of Jonah;

"for as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so shall the Son of man be to this generation.

"Teacher, when will this be?" they asked him, "and what shall be the sign that these things are about to happen?"