Luke 11:29

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Summary

And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.

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Luke 12:1

Luke 14:25

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Bible References

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During {this time} [when] a crowd of many thousands had gathered together, so that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, "Beware for yourselves of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Now large crowds were going along with him, and he turned around [and] said to them,

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so that the blood of all the prophets that has been shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,

So Jesus answered [and] said, "O unbelieving and perverted generation! {How long} will I be with you and put up with you? Bring your son here!"

"But you, come near here, you children of a soothsayer, offspring [of] an adulterer and she [who] commits fornication.

But [when he] saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, "Offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

For this [reason], behold, I am sending to you prophets and wise men and scribes. [Some] of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and will pursue from town to town,

For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father! That one was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he speaks the lie, he speaks from his own [nature], because he is a liar and the father {of lies}.

"[You] stiff-necked [people] and uncircumcised in hearts and in [your] ears! You constantly resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers [did], [so] also [do] you!

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Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him saying, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from you!"

And [when] the Pharisees and Sadducees came to test [him], they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

And the Pharisees came and began to argue with him, demanding from him a sign from heaven [in order to] test him.

So the Jews answered and said to him, "What sign do you show to us, because you are doing these [things]?"

So they said to him, "Then what sign will you perform, so that we can see [it] and believe you? What will you do?

For indeed, Jews ask for sign miracles and Greeks seek wisdom,