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New American Standard Bible

Luke 11:30

"For just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   Jonah;   Pharisees;   Symbols and Similitudes;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jonah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Heal, Health;   Suffering;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Lord's Prayer;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jonah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Luke, Gospel of;   Ninevites;   Repentance;   Sign;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jonah;   Nineveh;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Discourse;   Fig-Tree ;   Foresight;   Jonah ;   Luke, Gospel According to;   Man (2);   Nineveh, Ninevites;   Old Testament (Ii. Christ as Student and Interpreter of).;   Quotations (2);   Sermon on the Mount;   Sign ;   Son of Man;   Unconscious Faith;   Winter ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Jonah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Jonah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Jo'nah;   Nin'evites,;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Discrepancies, Biblical;   Guilt;   Jonah;   Jonah, the Book of;   Jonas (2);   Ninevites;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Jonah, Book of;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for November 20;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so also the Son of Man
King James Version (1611)
For as Ionas was a signe vnto the Nineuites, so shall also the Sonne of man be to this generation.
King James Version
For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.
English Standard Version
For as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so will the Son of Man be to this generation.
New Century Version
As Jonah was a sign for those people who lived in Nineveh, the Son of Man will be a sign for the people of this time.
Amplified Bible
"For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so will the Son of Man also be [a sign] to this generation.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation.
Legacy Standard Bible
For just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation.
Berean Standard Bible
For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so the Son of Man will be a sign to this generation.
Contemporary English Version
Just as Jonah was a sign to the people of Nineveh, the Son of Man will be a sign to the people of today.
Complete Jewish Bible
For just as Yonah became a sign to the people of Ninveh, so will the Son of Man be for this generation.
Darby Translation
For as Jonas was a sign to the Ninevites, thus shall also the Son of man be to this generation.
Easy-to-Read Version
Jonah was a sign for those who lived in Nineveh. It is the same with the Son of Man. He will be a sign for the people of this time.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For as Ionas was a signe to the Niniuites: so shall also the Sonne of man bee to this generation.
George Lamsa Translation
For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also will the Son of man be to this generation.
Good News Translation
In the same way that the prophet Jonah was a sign for the people of Nineveh, so the Son of Man will be a sign for the people of this day.
Lexham English Bible
For just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also the Son of Man will be to this generation.
Literal Translation
For even as Jonah became a miraculous sign to the Ninevites, so also the Son of Man will be to this generation.
American Standard Version
For even as Jonah became a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.
Bible in Basic English
For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of man be to this generation.
Hebrew Names Version
For even as Yonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will also the Son of Man be to this generation.
International Standard Version
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Etheridge Translation
For as was Jaunon a sign to the Ninvoyee, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.
Murdock Translation
For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also will the Son of man be a sign to this generation.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For as Ionas was a signe to the Niniuites, so shall also the sonne of man be to this nation.
English Revised Version
For even as Jonah became a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.
World English Bible
For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will also the Son of Man be to this generation.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.
Weymouth's New Testament
For just as Jonah became a sign to the men of Nineveh, so the Son of Man will be a token to the present generation.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For as Jonas was a tokene to men of Nynyue, so mannus sone schal be to this generacioun.
Update Bible Version
For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.
Webster's Bible Translation
For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also shall the Son of man be to this generation.
New English Translation
For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so the Son of Man will be a sign to this generation.
New King James Version
For as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also the Son of Man will be to this generation.
New Living Translation
What happened to him was a sign to the people of Nineveh that God had sent him. What happens to the Son of Man will be a sign to these people that he was sent by God.
New Life Bible
As Jonah was something special to the people of the city of Nineveh, the Son of Man will be to the people of this day also.
New Revised Standard
For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so the Son of Man will be to this generation.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, according as, Jonah, became, unto the Ninevites, a sign, so, shall be, the Son of Man also, unto this generation.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For as Jonas was a sign to the Ninivites; so shall the Son of man also be to this generation.
Revised Standard Version
For as Jonah became a sign to the men of Nin'eveh, so will the Son of man be to this generation.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For as Ionas was a signe to the Ninivites so shall ye sonne of ma be to this nacio.
Young's Literal Translation
for as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also shall the Son of Man be to this generation.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For like as Ionas was a toke vnto the Niniuytes, so shal the sonne of man be vnto this generacion.
Mace New Testament (1729)
for as the case of Jonas was a miraculous instance to the Ninevites, so shall the son of man be to this generation.
Simplified Cowboy Version
He was dead three days and then came back. This miracle was to prove to the evil people in Nineveh that Jonah came from the Boss. God will do the same thing for his Top Hand.

Contextual Overview

29 Now as the crowds were increasing, He began to say, "This generation is a wicked generation; it demands a sign, and so no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah. 30 "For just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation.31 "The Queen of the South will rise up with the men of this generation at the judgment and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, something greater than Solomon is here. 32 "The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, something greater than Jonah is here. 33 "No one lights a lamp and puts it away in a cellar nor under a basket, but on the lampstand, so that those who enter may see the light. 34 "Your eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye is clear, your whole body also is full of light; but when it is bad, your body also is full of darkness. 35 "So watch out that the light in you is not darkness. 36 "Therefore if your whole body is full of light, without any dark part, it will be wholly illuminated, as when the lamp illuminates you with its light."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Luke 24:46, Luke 24:47, Jonah 1:17, Jonah 2:10, Jonah 3:2-10, Matthew 12:40-42

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 20:9 - This sign Ezekiel 3:6 - of a strange speech and of an hard language Ezekiel 24:24 - Ezekiel Matthew 12:39 - no sign Matthew 16:1 - a sign Matthew 16:4 - but Mark 8:12 - There John 6:30 - What

Cross-References

Genesis 11:1
Now all the earth used the same language and the same words.
Genesis 11:2
And it came about, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
Genesis 11:3
Then they said to one another, "Come, let's make bricks and fire them thoroughly." And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
Genesis 11:11
and Shem lived five hundred years after he fathered Arpachshad, and he fathered other sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:12
Arpachshad lived thirty-five years, and fathered Shelah;
Genesis 25:21
Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was unable to have children; and the LORD answered him, and his wife Rebekah conceived.
Genesis 29:31
Now the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, and He opened her womb, but Rachel was unable to have children.
Judges 13:2
And there was a man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was infertile and had not given birth to any children.
1 Samuel 1:2
And he had two wives: the name of one was Hannah and the name of the other Peninnah; and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
Psalms 113:9
He has the infertile woman live in the house As a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For as Jonas was a sign to the Ninevites,.... As he was by lying three days and three nights in the whale's belly, and then cast on shore alive; which sign, or miracle was wrought to confirm his mission and message, and to engage the Ninevites to give credit to him, and repent, or they might assure themselves they would be utterly destroyed;

so shall also the son of man be to this generation; by lying three days and three nights in the heart of the earth, and then rising again from the dead the third day; and which should be done to confirm the truth of his Messiahship, and to declare him to be the Son of God with power, and to engage persons to believe in him; and to assure that wicked generation, that in case they remained, after such a sign, impenitent and unbelieving, wrath would come upon them to the uttermost; see Matthew 12:40.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Matthew 12:38-42.


 
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