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Jesus the new Jonah

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Matthew 12:38-41 "Sign of Jonah"

40 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 nights in the heart of the earth. 41 The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgement with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.

Jonah 1-3

	Jonah	Jesus
In a boat during a storm	fast asleep (Jon 1:4-5) woken up by the captain who asked Jonah to call to his God so that they should not perish (Jon 1:6) after the LORD God calmed the storm (Jon 1:14-15) the men in the boat greatly feared the LORD (Jon 1:16)	sleeping (Mt 8:24) woken up by the apostles who begged him to save them from perishing (Mt 8:35) after Jesus calmed the storm (Mt 8:26) the apostles were amazed (Mt 8:27)
One man sacrificed to save others	thrown off the boat (Jon 1:14-15)	on the cross for the whole world (Col 1:20)
Raised from Sheol (the place of the dead) on the third day	in the belly of a great fish (Jon 1:17-2-10)	his resurrection (Mt 28:1-10; Eph 4:9)
Proclaimed God’s message to Gentiles, who then repented	to the people of Nineveh (Jon 3)	the great commission of Jesus's apostles to go to all nations (Mt 28:18-20)

In a boat during a storm
- Was asleep (Jon 1:4-5 & Mt 8:24)
- Woken up to save people in boat from perishing: the captain asked Jonah to call to his God so that they should not perish (Jon 1:6); the apostles begged Jesus to save them from perishing (Mt 8:35)
- after the LORD God calmed the storm (Jon 1:14-15) the men in the boat greatly feared the LORD (Jon 1:16); after Jesus calmed the storm (Mt 8:26) the apostles were amazed (Mt 8:27)
One man sacrificed to save others: Jonah thrown off the boat (Jon 1:14-15); Jesus on the cross for the whole world (Col 1:20)
Raised from Sheol (the place of the dead) on the third day: Jonah in the belly of a great fish (Jon 1:17-2-10); Jesus’s resurrection (Mt 28:1-10; Eph 4:9)
Proclaimed God’s message to Gentiles, who then repented: to the people of Nineveh (Jon 3); the great commission of Jesus's apostles to go to all nations (Mt 28:18-20)