⁶ But ^(A)from the beginning of creation, God ^(B)created them male and female. ^7 (C)For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother^[a], ^8 (D)and the two shall become one flesh; so they are no longer two, but one flesh. ⁹ Therefore, what God has joined together, no person is to separate.”

The Desire for Signs

³⁸ Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Him, “Teacher, ^(A)we want to see a ^[a]sign from You.” ³⁹ But He answered and said to them, “^(B)An evil and adulterous generation craves a ^[b]sign; and so no ^[c]sign will be given to it except the ^[d]sign of Jonah the prophet; ⁴⁰ for just as ^(C)Jonah was in the stomach of the sea monster for three days and three nights, so will ^(D)the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth for ^(E)three days and three nights. ^41 (F)The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment, and will condemn it because ^(G)they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, something ^(H)greater than Jonah is here.

^26 (A)And just as it happened ^(B)in the days of Noah, so will it also be in the days of the Son of Man: ²⁷ people were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, and they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.