Luke 11:29-36

The Sign of Jonah

29 As the crowds were increasing, He began to say, "1This generation is a wicked generation; it 2seeks for a sign, and yet no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah.
30 "For just as 3Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation.
31 "The 4Queen of the South will rise up with the men of this generation at the judgment and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
32 "The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment and condemn it, because 5they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
33 "6No one, after lighting a lamp, puts it away in a cellar nor under a basket, but on the lampstand, so that those who enter may see the light.
34 "7The eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye is clear, your whole body also is full of light; but when it is bad, your body also is full of darkness.
35 "Then watch out that the light in you is not darkness.
36 "If therefore your whole body is full of light, with no * dark part in it, it will be wholly illumined, as when the lamp illumines you with its rays."

Cross References 7

  • 1. Luke 11:29-32: {Matthew 12:39-42;} Matthew 16:4; Mark 8:12
  • 2. Matthew 12:38; Luke 11:16
  • 3. Jonah 3:4
  • 4. 1 Kings 10:1-10; 2 Chronicles 9:1-12
  • 5. Jonah 3:5
  • 6. Matthew 5:15; Mark 4:21; Luke 8:16
  • 7. Luke 11:34, 35: {Matthew 6:22, 23}

Footnotes 6

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