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title = "Luke 11:27–32"
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date = "2022-12-11"
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### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Lk11.27-32)
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While Jesus was talking about demons and the state of people's souls, a woman
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calls out a blessing on His mother. It seems to me like an odd time for it, but
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perhaps she really enjoyed what Jesus was saying. Or maybe she was trying to
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change the subject. In any carse, Jesus responds by saying it is better to be
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blessed by keeping God's word.
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Jesus moves on to address the insincere requests for Him to perform a sign.
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It's hard to tell if this was immediately after the previous teaching, later
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that day, or some other time. All we know is "when the crowds were increasing."
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(_v. 29_) He tells them that the only sign they would get is the sign of Jonah,
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alluding to the three days the prophet spent inside the fish, cut off from the
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world. In the same way, Jesus would spend three days in a tomb to then emerge
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preaching a message of repentance.
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However, the queen of Ethiopia and the men of Ninevah from Jonah's time will
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both rise up and condemn the Jews of Jesus's day at the time of judgement. Each
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of them responded to God's message correctly, and they did not have as much
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knowledge and resources available to them as the Jews did. King Solomon did not
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perfectly follow God's commands in acquiring wives and wealth, to his
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detriment, but the queen of Ethiopia still came a great distance to learn the
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wisdom God had given him. Jonah was a rebellious, racist prophet, and yet the
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Ninevites listened to God's call for repentance through him. How bad will it be
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for the Jews who heard the very Son of God Himself speak directly to them and
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reject Him?
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How bad will it be for us, who have the entirety of Scriptures translated into
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our native languages, updated every few years, with instant access to it and
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also to the writings of the greatest minds who have studied it for _millenia_,
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and still don't pay attention to it?
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* * *
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Have mercy on us, for we deserve all the judgements You have promised.
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