Old/New Testament

This Is an Evil Generation. No Sign Will Be Given Except The Sign of Jonah

²⁹ And while the crowds were assembling-more, He began to say “This generation is an evil generation. It is seeking a sign. And a sign will not be given to it except the sign of Jonah. ³⁰ For as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so the Son of Man also will be to this generation. ³¹ The Queen of the South will be raised at the judgment with the men of this generation, and she will condemn them. Because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold— a greater thing than Solomon is here. ³² Ninevite men will rise-up at the judgment with this generation, and they will condemn it. Because they repented at the proclamation of Jonah, and behold— a greater thing than Jonah is here.

The Lamp Shines So People Can See. Watch Out That Your Eye Can Receive The Light

³³ “No one having lit a lamp puts it in a crypt^[a], nor under the basket, but on the lampstand, in order that the ones coming in may see the light. ³⁴ The lamp^[b] of the body is your eye. When your eye is single^[c], your whole body is also full-of-light. But when it is bad, your body is also full-of-darkness. ³⁵ So be watching-out that the light in^[d] you is not darkness! ³⁶ Therefore if your whole body is full-of-light, not having any part full-of-darkness, [then] the whole body will be full-of-light as when the lamp gives-light-to you with its bright-light”.

Woe To You Pharisees

³⁷ Now at the speaking, a Pharisee asks Him so that He might eat-the-morning-meal with him. And having gone in, He fell-back [to eat]. ³⁸ And the Pharisee, having seen it, marveled that He was not first cleansed^[e] before the morning-meal. ³⁹ But the Lord said to him, “Now^[f] you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and the platter, but the inside of you is full of plundering and evilness. ⁴⁰ Foolish ones— did not the One having made the outside also make the inside? ⁴¹ But give the things being-within as alms, and behold— all things are clean for you. ⁴² But woe to you Pharisees, because you are giving-a-tenth-of the mint and the rue and every garden-plant, and are disregarding^[g] the justice and the love of God. But you ought-to-have done these things, and not be slackening^[h] those things. ⁴³ Woe to you Pharisees, because you love the seat-of-honor in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces. ⁴⁴ Woe to you, because you are like unmarked^[i] graves, and the people walking over them do not know it ”.

Woe To You Law-Experts

⁴⁵ And having responded, one of the Law-experts says to Him, “Teacher, while saying these things You also are insulting us”. ⁴⁶ And the One said, “Woe to you Law-experts also, because you burden people with hard-to-bear burdens^[j], and you do not touch^[k] the burdens with one of your fingers. ⁴⁷ Woe to you, because you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them! ⁴⁸ Therefore you are witnesses and are giving-approval to the works of your fathers, because they killed them— and you build their tombs. ⁴⁹ For this reason the wisdom of God also said, ‘I will send-forth prophets and apostles to them, and some of them they will kill and persecute, ⁵⁰ in order that the blood of all the prophets having been shed since the foundation of the world may be required^[l] from this generation— ⁵¹ from the blood of Abel up to the blood of Zechariah^[m], the one having perished between the altar and the house [of God]. Yes, I say to you, it shall be required from this generation’. ⁵² Woe to you Law-experts, because you took away the key of knowledge. You did not enter, and you hindered the ones entering”.

With His Enemies Lying In Wait To Destroy Him, Myriads Gather To Hear Jesus

⁵³ And He having gone out from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly^[n] hostile^[o], and to question^[p] Him concerning more things ⁵⁴ while lying-in-wait-for Him to catch something from His mouth—