Since the word order in Japanese is kinda vague and also mostly reversed to what English speakers are used to, I always wondered how to say things like that in Japaense:
The boy said the following: 'Sample Text'
Please look at the following picture.
I also do not know what "the following" in general means in Japanese. https://jisho.org/search/the%20following I never heard any of those that Jisho.org have listed.