Luke 11:29
And when the multitudes were crowded together, he began to say: This is an evil generation; it asks for a sign, and no sign shall be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
28And he said: Yes, rather blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
30For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so the Son of man shall also be to this generation.
Cross References
Matthew 12:38Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered and said: Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.
Matthew 23:34For this reason, behold, I send you prophets and wise men and scribes; and some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;
Mark 8:38For whoever will be ashamed of me, and my words, in this sinful and adulterous generation, of him the Son of man also will be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father, with the holy angels.
Luke 11:16And others, that they might tempt him, asked of him a sign from heaven.
Luke 12:1In the mean time, when myriads of the people had come together, so that they trod one upon another, he began to say to his disciples first of all: Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Matthew Henry on Luke 11:28-29
Praise and a Blessing. 27 And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. 28 But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it. We had not this passage in the other evangelists, nor can we tack it, as Dr. Hammond does, to that of Christ's mother and brethren desiring to speak with him (for this evangelist also has related that in ch. viii. 19… Read the whole commentary →