Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

^29-30 As the crowd pressed in upon him, he preached them this sermon: “These are evil times, with evil people. They keep asking for some strange happening in the skies to prove I am the Messiah,^[a] but the only proof I will give them is a miracle like that of Jonah, whose experiences proved to the people of Nineveh that God had sent him. My similar experience will prove that God has sent me to these people.

³¹ “And at the Judgment Day the queen of Sheba^[b] shall arise and point her finger at this generation, condemning it, for she went on a long, hard journey to listen to the wisdom of Solomon; but one far greater than Solomon is here and few pay any attention.

³² “The men of Nineveh, too, shall arise and condemn this nation, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and someone far greater than Jonah is here, but this nation won’t listen.^[c]

³³ “No one lights a lamp and hides it! Instead, he puts it on a lampstand to give light to all who enter the room. ³⁴ Your eyes light up your inward being. A pure eye lets sunshine into your soul. A lustful eye shuts out the light and plunges you into darkness. ³⁵ So watch out that the sunshine isn’t blotted out. ³⁶ If you are filled with light within, with no dark corners, then your face will be radiant too, as though a floodlight is beamed upon you.”