Luke 11:29

And when a great number of people came together to him, he said, This generation is an evil generation: it is looking for a sign and no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah.

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In The King James Version

And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.

In Context

28But he said, More happy are they who give hearing to the word of God and keep it.

30For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of man be to this generation.

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Cross References

Isaiah 57:3But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman.

Matthew 12:38Then some of the scribes and Pharisees, hearing this, said to him, Master, we are looking for a sign from you.

Matthew 23:34For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town;

Mark 8:38Whoever has a feeling of shame because of me and my words in this false and evil generation, the Son of man will have a feeling of shame because of him, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

Luke 11:16And others, testing him, were looking for a sign from heaven from him.

Luke 12:1At that time, when thousands of the people had come together, in such numbers that they were crushing one another, he said first to his disciples, Have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees, which is deceit.

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 →

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