27. While he was speaking, a woman from the crowd called out and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that carried you and the breasts at which you nursed.”
28. He replied, “Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.”
29. While still more people gathered in the crowd, he said to them, “This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it, except the sign of Jonah.
30. Just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation.
31. At the judgment the queen of the south will rise with the men of this generation and she will condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and there is something greater than Solomon here.
32. At the judgment the men of Nineveh will arise with this generation and condemn it, because at the preaching of Jonah they repented, and there is something greater than Jonah here.
33. “No one who lights a lamp hides it away or places it [under a bushel basket], but on a lampstand so that those who enter might see the light.
34. The lamp of the body is your eye. When your eye is sound, then your whole body is filled with light, but when it is bad, then your body is in darkness.
35. Take care, then, that the light in you not become darkness.
36. If your whole body is full of light, and no part of it is in darkness, then it will be as full of light as a lamp illuminating you with its brightness.”
37. After he had spoken, a Pharisee invited him to dine at his home. He entered and reclined at table to eat.
38. The Pharisee was amazed to see that he did not observe the prescribed washing before the meal.