074: Scribes and Pharisees Seek a Sign of Jesus' Authority: Public Ministry of Jeus from the First Passover to the Second: Gospel Harmony [LivingWeb Library]

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Public Ministry of Jesus From 2nd to 3rd Passover

075: Jesus' Friends Think He is Beside Himself

074: Scribes and Pharisees Seek a Sign of Jesus' Authority

Book	Matthew	Mark	Luke	John
Passage	12:38-45	Not in this book	11:29-36	Not in this book
Lectionary	Not in the Lectionary		Not in the Lectionary
Text	38 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. 39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: 40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here. 42 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here. 43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. 44 Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. 45 Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.		29 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 Jonas the prophet. 30 For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation. 31 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here. 32 The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here. 33 No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light. 34 The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. 35 Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness. 36 If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.
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Every heart is the residence of unclean spirits, except those which are temples of the Holy Ghost, by faith in Christ.

- Matthew Henry, Concise Commentary

"In Jewish superstition it was held that demons and false gods could give signs on earth, but only the true God signs from heaven" (Alford). The request was the renewal of the one which had assailed him at the beginning of his ministry (Joh 2:18), and re-echoed the wilderness temptation to advance himself by vulgar display rather than by the power of a life of divine holiness.

- Fourfold Gospel

What was significant about Jonah was not his experience within the whale but his preaching, in response to which the people of Nineveh repented... Israel must not seek for signs, but heed the message.

- Howard Clark Kee, Interpreter's One-Volume Commentary: Matthew, p. 624

Someone greater than Solomon and Jonah is here; men should not ask for a sign but listen to his message.

- William Baird, Interpreter's One-Volume Commentary: Luke, p. 690

V. 29. It seeketh-The original word implies seeking more, or over and above what one has already.

- Wesley, John, Notes Upon the New Testament, Vol. 1, on Luke 11:29

The people were gathered thickly together (Lu 11:29), a vast crowd of them, expecting not so much to have their consciences informed by the doctrine of Christ as to have their curiosity gratified by his miracles.

- Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible

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