Luke 11:29-31

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A Sign from God

(Matthew 12.38-42; Mark 8.12)

²⁹^(A) As crowds were gathering around Jesus, he said:

You people of today are evil! You keep looking for a sign from God. But what happened to Jonah^[a] is the only sign you will be given. ³⁰^(B) Just as Jonah was a sign to the people of Nineveh, the Son of Man will be a sign to the people of today. ³¹^(C) When the judgment comes, the Queen of the South^[b] will stand there with you and condemn you. She traveled a long way to hear Solomon's wisdom, and yet here is something far greater than Solomon.

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Footnotes

11.29 what happened to Jonah: Jonah was in the stomach of a big fish for three days and nights (see Matthew 12.40).
11.31 South: Sheba, probably a country in southern Arabia.