But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation craves for a sign; and yet no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet;

An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and a sign will not be given it, except the sign of Jonah.” And He left them and went away.

‘Not one of these men, this evil generation, shall see the good land which I swore to give your fathers,

“They have acted corruptly toward Him,
They are not His children, because of their defect;
But are a perverse and crooked generation.

There is a kind who is pure in his own eyes,
Yet is not washed from his filthiness.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Then it goes and takes along with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. That is the way it will also be with this evil generation.”

And Jesus answered and said, “You unbelieving and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you and put up with you? Bring your son here.”

And with many other words he solemnly testified and kept on exhorting them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation!”