6          Discerns

12:38-42

Greater than Solomon here

 

12:38 Then answered him some of the scribes and Pharisees sang Teacher we wish from thee a sign to see. 39 But he answering said to them; generation an evil and adulterous a sign seeks, and a sign shall not be given to it except the sign of Jonas the prophet. 40 For as was Jonas in the belly of the sea monster three days and three nights, so will be the Son of man in the heart of the earth three days and three

nights. 41 Men Ninevites will stand up in the judgment with the generation this and will condemn it; because they repented at the proclamation of Jonas, and behold a greater thing than Jonas here. 42 The queen of the south will be raised in the judgment with the generation this and will condemn it; because she came out of the limits of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold a greater thing than Solomon is here.

 

 

7.         Predicts

12:43-45

This evil will be to this generation

(c/f worse spirits)

 

12:43 Now when the unclean spirit goes out from a man he goes through dry places seeking rest and finds not 45 Then he says. Into the house of me I will return whence I came out.  And coming he finds (it) empty and having

been swept and having been furnished. 45 Then he goes and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than himself and entering dwells there; and becomes the last things man of that worse than the first. Thus it will be also the generation to this the evil.

 

8          Relates

c/f God's will

12:46-50

..Whoever does the will of the Father

 

12:46 Yet (while) him speaking to the crowds behold the mother and the brothers of him stood outside seeking to him to speak. 47 and said someone to him: Behold the mother of thee and the brothers of thee outside are standing seeking to thee to speak. 48 And he answering said to the one saying to him:

Who is the mother of me, and who are the brothers f me? 49 And stretching forth the hand of him on the disciples of him he said: Behold the mother of me and the brothers of me. 50 For whoever does the will of the Father of me in heavens he of me brother and sister and mother is.