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Matthew 12:40 · BSB
12:40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
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…a while. You know, and skeptics have tried to discredit this story as fiction or allegory. But remember, Jesus mentions this as historical fact. InMatthew chapter 12, verse 40, Jesus says, For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three…
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…Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.Matthew chapter 12 verse 40. Think about what he chose to compare himself to, a runaway prophet, swallowed by the sea for disobeying God, who prayed from inside the darkness…
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…24:37-44. Do you really believe that Jonah was swallowed by a fish and came out 3 days later and lived to preach about it? Jesus believed in Jonah.Matthew 12:39-41. It's good enough for me. Is God really serious in what he says about marriage, divorce, and remarriage? I mean, a lot of guys have written books.…
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…it except the sign of Jonah. Most of you probably know Jonah was in the belly of a great fish three days, three nights. With that imagery in mind,Matthew 12, verse 40. Just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart…
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…I'll give you the sign. But it's not the sign you want. I'm going to give you the sign of Jonah. Now, Jesus had already talked about this back inMatthew 12, verse 40. I think the verse is it says the only sign you're going to give signage. Jonah. He says it again here. What's the sign of Jonah? It's a sign of…
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…his death, his burial, his resurrection. That's how we read scripture. So when we see something like Matthew 12, we see Jesus do this. Look atMatthew 12, verses 38 through 41. Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the law said to Jesus, Teacher, we want to see a sign from you. And he answered, A wicked and…
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…that this was to take place. Can I give you a sampling? Thank you. I was going to do it anyway. Nobody answered, but I'm going to do it anyway.Matthew chapter 12, verse 40. As Jonas was 3 days and three nights in the whale's belly, so shall the Son of Man be 3 days and three nights in the heart of the earth. Matthew…
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…I believe the Bible and I believe that Christ's words are literal and precise. I'm not just taking the three days and three nights according toMatthew chapter 12 verse 40literally. I'm taking them seriously. I think of the plea and literal statement of Christ here. 3 days and three nights. That matches Jonah 117.…
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…or a country or a city repents, God relents of His judgement. Do you know that the people of Nineveh, we've already read it. Matthew chapter 20,Matthew chapter 12, verse 40, the people of Nineveh repented at the preaching of Jonah. God's warning was a sign of great mercy, a Great Commission, a great compassion that…
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…a story that couldn't have really happened. How could the man survive three days in the belly of a fish? Well, when Jesus taught this scripture inMatthew 12:40, he said, "For as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish for three days and three nights, so the son of man will be in the heart of the earth for…
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…experience was a prophecy of his own. Jesus draws upon Jonah's experience to foretell his own descent into shield or hades saying as we saw inMatthew 12:40when Jesus referred to this it says for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish so will the son of man be three…
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…going to be preaching in a moment in a series in the Minor Prophets, and this week we are in the book of Jonah. But I want to share with you firstMatthew chapter 12, verse 39 through 41. Matthew 12, 39 through 41. Matthew 12, 39 through 41. Christ himself is speaking, and he says, But he answered and said unto them, An evil and…
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…of the world. So the second thing we see in the story of Jonah that there is something greater than Jonah himself. Look with me, Jesus continuesMatthew 12 verse 40. For just as Jonah was in three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be 3 days and three nights in the…
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…that from Jonah 117, but also a reading from the New Testament that helps us make sense of what it is that we're reading from Jesus's eyes. FromMatthew 12, verses 38 through 41. Jonah 117 And the ward appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish 3 days and three nights. Then Matthew…
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…bad situation. Now it says here that a giant fish, a huge fish, came and swallowed Jonah up. In the New Testament, when Jesus retells the story inMatthew chapter 12, verse 40, some of your translations may say whale. Maybe it was a whale. We don't really know what it was. It was at the very least a big fish and that's…
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…at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now something greater than Jonah is here.’ (Matthew 12:39-41) Lesson: ‘The sign of Jonah’ is that as Jonah was 3 days in the depths of the sea, so Jesus’ 3 days in the grave and His resurrection are a sign…
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…this series up by looking at the words of Jesus as he references Jonah in the New Testament. It's really a powerful passage. So if you're there,matthew 12, verse 38 through 41. One day some teachers of religious law and Pharisees came to Jesus and said teacher, we want you to show us a miraculous sign to prove your…
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…So that's one reason. The second reason is Jesus referred to Jonah not as a story or as a tale, but as an actual person, and you can find this inMatthew, chapter 12, verses 39 through 42. I'm not going to read that today because in March, at the end of March, in our Easter service, this is going to be our main passage that we're…
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…at depths of the earth, that could also be where Jesus was, was ascended from. Because all this is true, it could also be the heart of the earth.Matthew 12, verse 40refers to the grave as the heart of the earth, but it could also mean the earthly realm. Jesus being incarnated, he came down to earth itself. So…
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…son of Matai, the prophet who was from Gathop. That's the first time we see Jonah in 2nd Kings. We also see that in Matthew, it's going to be inMatthew chapter 12 verse 39 through 41. That is going to be on page 974. Page 972. This is when Jesus Christ is talking to the Pharisees, the scribes and the Pharisees. And what's…
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