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Luke 11:28-30
EasyEnglish Bible
Luke 11:28-30
EasyEnglish Bible
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] 30 Jonah showed God's power to the people who lived in Nineveh. They knew that God had sent him. In the same way the Son of Man will show God's power to the people that are living today. Then they will know that God has sent me.
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- 11:29 We can read about Jonah in the book of Jonah in the Old Testament of the Bible. God sent him to a town called Nineveh. He told the people there that they must stop doing bad things. He had been inside a big fish for three days. They could see that God had made him alive again. Jesus also would become alive again, three days after he died.
Luke 11:28-30
New International Version
Luke 11:28-30
New International Version
28 He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God(A) and obey it.”(B)
The Sign of Jonah(C)
29 As the crowds increased, Jesus said, “This is a wicked generation. It asks for a sign,(D) but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.(E) 30 For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also will the Son of Man be to this generation.
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