Verse 30

For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so also the Son of Man will be a sign to this generation.

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  • Jonah 2:10 : 10 But I, with shouts of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to You. What I have vowed I will fulfill. Salvation comes from the LORD.
  • Jonah 3:2-9 : 2 “Get up, go to the great city of Nineveh, and proclaim the message that I tell you.” 3 So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, following the LORD's command. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, taking three days to go through it. 4 Jonah began to go into the city, walking a journey of one day, and he proclaimed, saying, “In forty days Nineveh will be overturned!” 5 The people of Nineveh believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least. 6 When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself in sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 Then he made a proclamation in Nineveh, by decree of the king and his nobles: “Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not graze or drink water. 8 But let both man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out to God with fervor. Let each turn from his evil ways and from the violence in their hands. 9 Who knows? God may turn and relent and withdraw His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.” 10 When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, He relented and did not bring upon them the disaster He had threatened.
  • Matt 12:40-42 : 40 For just as Jonah was in the belly of the great fish for three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights. 41 The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at Jonah's preaching, and look—something greater than Jonah is here. 42 The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and look—something greater than Solomon is here.
  • Luke 24:46-47 : 46 He told them, "This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day. 47 And repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.