Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Luke 11:29 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 29. 29And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.
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Quick Meaning
Luke 11:29 supplies Luke 11:29's own evidence for “Jonah, Solomon, and the Lamp Demand Responsive Sight”: “And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of…”.
Read It With
- Luke 11:29–11:36
Read Luke 11:29 with 11:29–11:36. Luke 11:29 supplies Luke 11:29's own evidence for “Jonah, Solomon, and the Lamp Demand Responsive Sight”: “And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of…”. The complete unit's controlling movement is: Jesus refuses a sign-demanding generation beyond Jonah, invokes Gentile witnesses who responded to Solomon and Jonah, and joins eye, lamp, and whole-body light as a call to receptive discernment.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Luke 11:29 supplies Luke 11:29's own evidence for “Jonah, Solomon, and the Lamp Demand Responsive Sight”: “And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of…”. This selected detail moves Luke 11:29–11:36 from its initiating question or action toward the unit's response and prepares Luke's next movement.
What Remains True
Luke 11:29 supplies Luke 11:29's own evidence for “Jonah, Solomon, and the Lamp Demand Responsive Sight”: “And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of…”. Read inside Luke 11:29–11:36, this contribution supports the unit's proportionate truth: Jesus refuses a sign-demanding generation beyond Jonah, invokes Gentile witnesses who responded to Solomon and Jonah, and joins eye, lamp, and whole-body light as a call to receptive discernment. Its use remains accountable to affected people and the unit's explicit boundary.
How It Can Shape Life
- When teaching Luke 11:29, explain this exact contribution inside Luke 11:29–11:36, identify the unit's source-controlled uncertainty, and refuse this misuse before proposing action: This unit does not authorize Gentile superiority, antisemitism, ableist speech, spectacle-demanding faith, or certainty about every Jonah parallel.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Luke 11:29–11:36 — Jonah, Solomon, and the Lamp Demand Responsive SightSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and coverage.
Exact location: Luke 11:29–11:36, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and sentence relations; the edition is not treated as a complete apparatus.
Exact location: Faithlife SBLGNT official repository, data/sblgnt/text/Luke.txt, 11:29–11:36
Open the Luke Greek text file ↗open translation and translator notes
NET Bible First Edition Notes: Luke
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level translation, syntax, KJV-language clarification, historical notes, Synoptic parallels, and textual alternatives.
Exact location: NET Bible First Edition Luke PDF, exact tn/tc/sn entries attached to Luke 11:29–11:36
Open source ↗