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People Who Are Truly Blessed

27 When Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd spoke out. She said to Jesus, “Your mother is blessed because she gave birth to you and nursed you.”

28 But Jesus said, “Those who hear the teaching of God and obey it—they are the ones who are truly blessed.”

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29 The crowd grew larger. Jesus said, “The people who live today are evil. They ask for a miracle as a sign from God. But they will have no sign—only the sign of Jonah.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 11:29 sign of Jonah Jonah’s three days in the big fish are like Jesus’ three days in the tomb.

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