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-title = "Luke 11:14–26"
+title = "Luke 11:14–25"
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-### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Lk11.14-26)
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+### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Lk11.14-25)
 
 Jesus's enemies are still upset at the good things He is doing. They are jealus
 of His popularity and offended by the rebukes He has given them. Preiviously,

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