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Matthew 12: The sign of Jonah, and the men of Nineveh

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Matthew 11:24ESV

But I tell you that it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of than for you.”

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The men of will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.

Matthew 14:34ESV

And when they had crossed over, they came to land at .

Matthew 11
Matthew 14

On the Sabbath the disciples pluck grain in the grainfields, and Jesus answers the Pharisees with David in the house of God and the priests in the temple. He heals a man with a withered hand in their synagogue, withdraws when the Pharisees plot against him, and answers the charge that he casts out demons by Beelzebul. Asked for a sign, he offers only the sign of the prophet Jonah: the men of Nineveh, who repented at Jonah's preaching, will rise at the judgment and condemn this generation (12:39-41). Nineveh is the only place the chapter names; the towns where all this happens go unnamed.

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Verse 41: Nineveh, whose men repented at the preaching of Jonah.

  • In 12:41 the men of Nineveh, who repented at the preaching of Jonah, will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it. All 500 votes put it at Nineveh, on the east bank of the Tigris opposite Mosul. It is the only pin on this map; the land of Israel is framed beside it to show the distance, not marked.

    Today: Mosul, Iraq, on the east bank of the Tigris

Matthew 12, verse by verse

  1. Matthew 12:41The men of will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.