Luke 11:29
Now as the crowds were increasing, He began to say: “This is a malignant generation. It keeps wanting a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
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In Context
28But He said, “More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and obey it!”
30Just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also will the Son of the Man be to this generation.
Cross References
Matthew 12:38Then some of the scribes and Pharisees reacted saying, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”
Matthew 23:34So take note: I will send you prophets and wise men and Biblical scholars; some of them you will kill, even crucify; some of them you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from city to city
Mark 8:38Yes, whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of the Man will also be ashamed of Him whenever He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy Angels.”
Luke 11:16While others kept asking Him for a sign from heaven, testing.
Luke 12:1Meanwhile, when a crowd of thousands had converged, so that they were stepping on each other, He began to speak first to His disciples: “Guard yourselves from the ‘yeast’ 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 →