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Luke 11:23-31 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

23. If you are not on my side, you are against me. If you don't gather in the crop with me, you scatter it.

24. When an evil spirit leaves a person, it travels through the desert, looking for a place to rest. But when it doesn't find a place, it says, “I will go back to the home I left.”

25. When it gets there and finds the place clean and tidy,

26. it goes off and finds seven other evil spirits even worse than itself. They all come and make their home there, and that person ends up in a worse state than before.

27. While Jesus was still talking, a woman in the crowd spoke up, “The woman who gave birth to you and nursed you is blessed!”

28. Jesus replied, “That's true, but the people who are really blessed are the ones who hear and obey God's message!”

29. As crowds were gathering around Jesus, he said:You people of today are evil! You keep looking for a sign from God. But what happened to Jonah is the only sign you will be given.

30. Just as Jonah was a sign to the people of Nineveh, the Son of Man will be a sign to the people of today.

31. When the judgment comes, the Queen of the South will stand there with you and condemn you. She travelled a long way to hear Solomon's wisdom, and yet here is something far greater than Solomon.

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