30<\/strong>. a sign unto the Ninevites<\/em> ] Jon 1:17<\/span>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n For as Jonas was a sign to the Ninevites<\/strong>,…. As he was by lying three days and three nights in the whale’s belly, and then cast on shore alive; which sign, or miracle was wrought to confirm his mission and message, and to engage the Ninevites to give credit to him, and repent, or they might assure themselves they would be utterly destroyed;<\/p>\n so shall also the son of man be to this generation<\/strong>; by lying three days and three nights in the heart of the earth, and then rising again from the dead the third day; and which should be done to confirm the truth of his Messiahship, and to declare him to be the Son of God with power, and to engage persons to believe in him; and to assure that wicked generation, that in case they remained, after such a sign, impenitent and unbelieving, wrath would come upon them to the uttermost; see Mt 12:40<\/span>.<\/p>\n A sign to the Ninevites. Compare Mt 12:40<\/span>.<\/P> <\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n 1) “For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites,” <\/strong>(kathos gar egeneto (ho) lonas tois Ninevitais semeion) “For just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites,” Joh 10:25<\/span>; Joh 10:27<\/span>. The sign was by his three days and three nights of his entombment in the belly of the whale, or the great fish, Jon 1:17<\/span>.<\/p>\n 2) “So shall the Son of man be to this generation.” <\/strong>(houtos estai kai ho hiios tou anthropou, te genea taute) “Thus (just like this) the Son (heir) of man will also be (a sign) to this generation,” Mat 8:20<\/span>, as a deliverer from the consequence of their sins, Luk 19:10<\/span>; Mat 12:40<\/span>; Mat 26:31-32<\/span>.<\/p>\n Luk 11:30<\/span><\/p>\n . As Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites. He declares that he will be a sign to them, as Jonah was to the inhabitants of Nineveh. But the word sign is not taken in its ordinary sense, as pointing out something, but as denoting what is widely removed from the ordinary course of nature. In this sense Jonah’s mission was miraculous, when he was brought out of the belly of the fish, as if from the grave, to call the Ninevites to repentance. Three days and three nights This is in accordance with a well-known figure of speech. (166) As the night is an appendage to the day, or rather, as the day consists of two parts, light and darkness, he expresses a day by a day and a night, and where there was half a day, he puts down a whole day. <\/p>\n (166) “ Quant aux trois nuits, il y a ici (cornme on scait bien) une figure que les Grecs et Latins appellent Synecdoche;” — “as to the three nights, there is here (as is well known) a figure which the Greek and Latin writers call Synecdoche.” <\/p>\n “For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will also the Son of man be to this generation.”<\/p>\n The crowds knew that Jonah had arrived in Nineveh having spent three days in the innards of a large fish like creature. He had been dead and had come alive. (He also probably looked inhumanly pale and somewhat strange as a result of the chemical action that would have affected his skin, and the account of his emergence from the fish after three days would have added to the effect). Given that he was also dressed as a Hebrew prophet he had come as ‘a sign’ from the dead to the Ninevites. The result was that they had attended to his words and had repented of their sin and idolatry.<\/p>\n In their eyes (and in the eyes of the crowds) here was a man who had come back from a watery grave. All would have heard the word that could hardly have failed to get around that this weird and unearthly looking man who had appeared before them had been ‘dead’ for three days in the body of a great fish. (The reasonable assumption is that Jonah would have told some of them of his experience. Indeed it can hardly be doubted). Thus they would see him as bringing them words from beyond the grave.<\/p>\n We can imagine what happened. Jonah takes up accommodation somewhere in Nineveh. They ask him why his skin is such a strange colour. He explains what had happened to him in his being swallowed by a huge fish and how he had prayed from the world of darkness. They go around telling their associates about this Hebrew prophet who has come back from the watery depths, even from the very dead. Thus soon crowds gather to see him, and awed by his pale and strange looking skin, and the even stranger tale that they have been told, they take careful heed to his words so that God moves their hearts and a great movement of the word of God takes place. He was indeed ‘a sign’ to them.<\/p>\n In the same way Jesus promises that the Son of Man ‘will be’ a sign to this generation. This would suggest that in some way He too would to come back from the dead after three days. This would not have seemed quite so impossible to them as we might think, for they knew that the Scriptures taught what had happened to the ‘son of man’. He had come from the midst of awful persecution and death (Luk 7:21-22<\/span>; Luk 7:25<\/span>), in order to make His way triumphantly to the throne of God, so that He might receive Kingly Rule (Luk 7:13-14<\/span>), having necessarily been involved in the resurrection from the dead (Dan 12:1-2<\/span>). Like Jonah He too would then become a ‘sign’ (compare Joh 2:18-22<\/span>).<\/p>\n Some consider that Luke is referring to Jonah’s preaching as the sign, and that he was suggesting that Jesus meant that His own preaching was similarly a sign, ‘the sign of the prophet Jonah’ signifying ‘the same kind of sign as the prophet Jonah’. Certainly Jonah’s preaching had been hugely successful, and equally certainly Jesus’ teaching was. But successful preaching is never called a sign, and it does not explain why Jesus chose Jonah as His illustration. Other prophets were seen as having been successful. Furthermore it is Jonah himself who is quite clearly called the sign, ‘the sign of Jonah’. For his preaching was successful because the Ninevites saw him as a sign, not the other way round. It also explains Jesus’ use of the future tense when speaking of Himself as a sign. For He had clearly indicated that He was not in the present willing to give any further sign than the ones they continually saw in His preaching and casting out of evil spirits (see Mar 8:12<\/span>).<\/p>\n And there is no question but that the crowd listening to Jesus would, when thinking of Jonah, think in terms of his awesome experience, and see that as a sign. It was both vivid and memorable. So ‘the sign of Jonah’ gave them a clue as to what to look for. Jesus was promising that He too would at some stage arrive back from the dead. While it was a sign not yet given, it was a sign that He assured them would be given. He would thus become a sign to His generation. For such a future event as a sign we can compare Exo 3:12<\/span>.<\/p>\n The book of Acts undoubtedly reveals precisely that, that the resurrection became a sign spoke of and witnessed to by the Apostles, who saw it as a foundational part of their preaching and a sign of Who Jesus was.<\/p>\n 30 For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Ver. 30. So also shall the Son of man be<\/strong> ] sc.<\/em> A sign, not of confirmation, but of condemnation. <\/p>\n Luk 11:30<\/span> . The sign of Jonah is not further explained as in Mt. (Mat 12:40<\/span> ), and it might seem that the meaning intended was that Jonah, as a prophet and through his preaching, was a sign to the Ninevites, and that in like manner so was Jesus to His generation. But in reference to Jesus Lk. does not say “is” but “shall be,” , as if something else than Christ’s ministry, something future in His experience, was the sign. Something is obscurely hinted at which is not further explained, as if to say: wait and you will get your sign.<\/p>\n as = even as. <\/p>\n was = became. <\/p>\n the Ninevites. They must therefore have known of the miracle connected with him. <\/p>\n also the Son of man = the Son of man also. <\/p>\n the Son of man. See App-98. <\/p>\n this generation. See note on Luk 11:29. <\/p>\n Luk 11:30. , unto the Ninevites) Therefore the Ninevites knew as to the three days of Jonah; and were thereby led to repentance: but afterwards they through impenitence drew down punishment upon themselves, after almost the same interval had elapsed from the time of the respite given to them (because of their penitence), as subsequently elapsed in the case of the Jews: which may in both cases be compared with the time given for repentance.[109]-, so) This has the force of a promise, extending to a distant period.<\/p>\n [109] Forty days, Jon 3:4, given for repentance to the Ninevites after Jonahs three days, somewhat analogous to the time, about forty years, between Jesus three days and the destruction of Jerusalem.-ED. and TRANSL.<\/p>\n the Son of man <\/p>\n (See Scofield “Mat 8:20”). <\/p>\n Luk 24:46, Luk 24:47, Jon 1:17, Jon 2:10, Jon 3:2-10, Mat 12:40-42 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: 2Ki 20:9 – This sign Eze 3:6 – of a strange speech and of an hard language Eze 24:24 – Ezekiel Mat 12:39 – no sign Mat 16:1 – a sign Mat 16:4 – but Mar 8:12 – There Joh 6:30 – What<\/p>\n 0. Thayer defines the original for sign, “A sign, prodigy, portent,” and he explains his definition to mean “an unusual occurence, transcending [going beyond] the common course of nature.” Jonah lived three days and three nights in the belly of the fish, which was certainly something unusual. And Jesus predicted that he would be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth (Mat 12:40) and live again.<\/p>\n Luk 11:30. For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites. Peculiar to the briefer account of Luke. The appearance of Jonah as a preacher after the three days and nights in the whales belly (after his resurrection), was a sign received by the Ninevites. Our Lord speaks of something yet to occur, foretelling His resurrection as a greater sign to that generation.<\/p>\n Verse 30 <\/p>\n This was an allusion to the Savior’s descent into the tomb, which could not have been fully understood until after his ascension.<\/p>\n For as Jonah was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation. 30. a sign unto the Ninevites ] Jon 1:17. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges For as Jonas was a sign to the Ninevites,…. 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Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Vincent’s Word Studies in the New Testament<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Expositors Greek Testament by Robertson<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Gnomon of the New Testament<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: A Popular Commentary on the New Testament<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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