Luke 11:29
And the multitudes running together, he began to say: This generation is a wicked generation: it asketh a sign, and a sign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
28But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it.
30For as Jonas was a sign to the Ninivites; so shall the Son of man also be to this generation.
Cross References
Isaiah 57:3But draw near hither, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer, and of the harlot.
Matthew 12:38Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying: Master we would see a sign from thee.
Matthew 23:34Therefore behold I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them you will put to death and crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city:
Mark 8:38For he that shall be ashamed of me, and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation: the Son of man also will be ashamed of him, when he shall come in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
Luke 11:16And others tempting, asked of him a sign from heaven.
Luke 12:1And when great multitudes stood about him, so that they trod one upon another, he began to say to his disciples: Beware ye 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 →