Luke 11:27-29

EasyEnglish Bible

²⁷ While Jesus was saying this, a woman in the crowd shouted out. ‘How happy is the woman that gave birth to you! How happy is the woman that fed you from her breasts!’

²⁸ Jesus replied, ‘It is the people who hear God's message who are happy. They are happy if they obey it.’

Jesus talks about Jonah

²⁹ The crowd around Jesus was growing very large, so he began to speak to them. ‘The people that are alive today are very bad,’ he said. ‘They want God to show them something powerful. But God will not do this for them. They will only see the same powerful thing that God did for Jonah.^[a]