<t /><p class="bodytext">As<n id="1" /> the crowds were increasing, Jesus<n id="2" /> began to say, &#8220;This generation is a wicked generation; it looks for a sign,<n id="3" /> but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.<n id="4" />

This<n id="1" /> will be a sign<n id="2" /> for you: You will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth and lying in a manger.&#8221;<n id="3" />

Others, to test<n id="1" /> him,<n id="2" /> began asking for<n id="3" /> a sign<n id="4" /> from heaven.

There will be great earthquakes, and famines<n id="1" /> and plagues in various places, and there will be terrifying sights<n id="2" /> and great signs<n id="3" /> from heaven.

For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh,<n id="1" /> so the Son of Man will be a sign<n id="2" /> to this generation.<n id="3" />

So<n id="1" /> they asked him,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Teacher, when will these things<n id="3" /> happen? And what will be the sign that<n id="4" /> these things are about to take place?&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars,<n id="1" /> and on the earth nations will be in distress,<n id="2" /> anxious<n id="3" /> over the roaring of the sea and the surging waves.

Then<n id="1" /> Simeon blessed them and said to his mother Mary, &#8220;Listen carefully:<n id="2" /> This child<n id="3" /> is destined to be the cause of the falling and rising<n id="4" /> of many in Israel and to be a sign that will be rejected.<n id="5" />

When<n id="1" /> Herod saw Jesus, he was very glad, for he had long desired to see him, because he had heard about him and was hoping to see him perform<n id="2" /> some miraculous sign.<n id="3" />