Luke 11:29
And when the people were gathered thicke together, he began to say, This is a wicked generation: they seeke a signe, and there shall no signe be giuen them, but the signe of Ionas the Prophet.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
28But hee saide, Yea, rather blessed are they that heare the woorde of God, and keepe it.
30For as Ionas was a signe to the Niniuites: so shall also the Sonne of man bee to this generation.
Cross References
Isaiah 57:3But you witches children, come hither, the seede of the adulterer and of the whore.
Matthew 12:38Then answered certaine of ye Scribes and of the Pharises, saying, Master, we would see a signe of thee.
Matthew 23:34Wherefore beholde, I send vnto you Prophets, and wise men, and Scribes, and of them ye shall kill and crucifie: and of them shall ye scourge in your Synagogues, and persecute from citie to citie,
Mark 8:38For whosoeuer shall be ashamed of mee, and of my wordes among this adulterous and sinfull generation, of him shall the Sonne of man be ashamed also, when he commeth in the glorie of his Father with the holy Angels.
Luke 11:16And others tempted him, seeking of him a signe from heauen.
Luke 12:1In the meane time, there gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, so that they trode one another: and he began to say vnto his disciples first, Take heede to your selues of the leauen of the Pharises, which is hypocrisie.
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 →