Verse 29
Luke 11:29
American Standard Version Byzantine Text
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And when the multitudes were gathering together unto him, he began to say, This generation is evil: it seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.
Original Language Text
greek
Τῶν δὲ ὄχλων ἐπαθροιζομένων ἤρξατο λέγειν· Ἡ γενεὰ αὕτη ⸀γενεὰ πονηρά ἐστιν· σημεῖον ⸀ζητεῖ, καὶ σημεῖον οὐ δοθήσεται αὐτῇ εἰ μὴ τὸ σημεῖον ⸀Ἰωνᾶ.
English Translation
As the crowds were gathering, he began to say: "This generation is a wicked generation; it seeks a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah."
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Chapter 11 Context
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And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy ki...
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Give us day by day our daily bread.
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And forgive us our sins; For we ourselves also forgive everyone that is indebted to us. And bring us...
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And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say...
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for a friend is come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him;
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and he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are w...
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I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him because he is his friend, yet because of his im...
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And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be...
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For everyone that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall b...
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11
And of which of you that is a father shall his son ask a loaf, and he give him a stone? or a fish, a...
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Or if he shall ask an egg, will he give him a scorpion?
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If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your hea...
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14
And he was casting out a demon, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the demon was gone out, t...
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But some of them said, By Beelzebul the prince of demons casteth he out demons.
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And others, trying him, sought of him a sign from heaven.
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But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to d...
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And if Satan also is divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cas...
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19
And if I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be y...
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But if I by the finger of God (Elohim) cast out demons, then is the kingdom of God (Elohim) come upo...
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When the strong man fully armed guardeth his own court, his goods are in peace:
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but when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him his whole armo...
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He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.
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The unclean spirit when he is gone out of the man, passeth through waterless places, seeking rest, a...
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And when he is come, he findeth it swept and garnished.
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Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more evil than himself; and they go and dwell t...
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And it came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voi...
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But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God (Elohim), and keep it.
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And when the multitudes were gathering together unto him, he began to say, This generation is evil:...
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For even as Jonah became a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generati...
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The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and shall cond...
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The men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for th...
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And no man, when he hath lighted a lamp, putteth it in a cellar, neither under the bushel, but on th...
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The lamp of the body is the eye: when therefore thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of...
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Look therefore whether the light that is in thee be not darkness.
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If therefore thy whole body be full of light, having no part dark, it shall be wholly full of light,...
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37
Now as he spake, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat...
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And when the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first bathed himself before dinner.
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And the Lord said unto him, Now ye the Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter;...
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Ye foolish ones, did not he that made the outside make the inside also?
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But give for alms those things which are within; and behold, all things are clean unto you.
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42
But woe unto you Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and every herb, and pass over justice and the...
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43
Woe unto you Pharisees! for ye love the chief seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the ma...
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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as the tombs which appear not, and the m...
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45
And answering, one of the lawyers saith unto him, Teacher, in saying this thou reproachest us also.
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46
And he said, Woe unto you lawyers also! for ye load men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yo...
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47
Woe unto you! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
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So ye bear witness and consent unto the works of your fathers: for they killed them, and ye build th...
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49
Therefore also said the wisdom of God (Elohim), I will send unto them prophets and apostles; and som...
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that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required...
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from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary...
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Woe unto you lawyers! for ye took away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them...
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And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press upon him vehemen...
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laying wait for him, seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
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- Luke
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- Chapter 11 (54 verses)
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