Luke 11:30
For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.
KJV
καθὼς γὰρ ἐγένετο Ἰωνᾶς τοῖς Νινευείταις σημεῖον, οὕτως ἔσται καὶ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου τῇ γενεᾷ ταύτῃ.
Greek NT
Nam sicut fuit Jonas signum Ninivitis, ita erit et Filius hominis generationi isti.
Vulgate
For even as Jonah became a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.
ASV
For as Jonas was a sign to the Ninivites; so shall the Son of man also be to this generation.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Νινευΐτης
nineuites
noun · 3×
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
γίνομαι
ginomai
verb · 667×
γενεά
genea
noun · 43×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καθώς
kathos
adverb · 181×
οὕτω
outo
adverb · 208×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
σημεῖον
semeion
noun · 77×
υἱός
uios
noun · 375×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
Ἰωνᾶς
ionas
noun · 9×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
minor
SBLGNT: Ἰωνᾶς | Treg/NIV/RP: Ἰωνᾶς | WH: ὁ Ἰωνᾶς
- Ἰωνᾶς — SBLGNT
- Ἰωνᾶς — Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
- ὁ Ἰωνᾶς — Westcott-Hort
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: τοῖς Νινευίταις σημεῖον | WH/Treg/NIV: τοῖς Νινευίταις σημεῖον | RP: σημεῖον τοῖς Νινευίταις
- τοῖς Νινευίταις σημεῖον — SBLGNT
- τοῖς Νινευίταις σημεῖον — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- σημεῖον τοῖς Νινευίταις — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Ezek 3:6 — Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.
- Jonah 1:17 — Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
- Jonah 3:2 — Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
- Matt 12:40 — For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.