The whale
(του κητους). Sea-monster, huge fish. In Jonah 2:1 the LXX has κητε μεγαλω. "Three days and three nights" may simply mean three days in popular speech. Jesus rose "on the third day" (Matthew 16:21), not "on the fourth day." It is just a fuller form for "after three days" (Mark 8:31; Mark 10:34).
Verse 40. _THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS_] Our Lord rose from the grave on the day but _one_ after his crucifixion: so that, in the computation in this verse, the part of the day on which he was crucif...
WE WOULD SEE A SIGN FROM THEE - See Luke 11:16, Luke 11:29. A “sign” commonly signifies a miracle - that is, a sign that God was with the person or had sent him. Compare the notes at Isaiah 7:11. Luke...
9. THE REJECTION CONSUMMATED AND THE BROKEN RELATIONSHIP. CHAPTER 12 1. The Hungry Disciples and the Accusing Pharisees. (Matthew 12:1 .) 2. The Man with the Withered Hand Healed.(Matthew 12:10 .) 3...
JESUS-' ANSWER TO THE VERDICT OF THE JERUSALEM SCRIBES, AND THE INTERVENTION OF HIS FAMILY (Mark 3:20 *, Luke 11:14; Luke 11:29; Luke 12:10;...
THE REQUEST FOR A SIGN REFUSED (Luke 11:29. From Q. _Cf._ Mark 8:11 f.*= Matthew 16:1_ a_, Matthew 16:4). Mt. uses the incident here as an addit
Then the Scribes and Pharisees answered him: "Teacher, they said, "we wish to see a sign from you." He answered, "It is an evil and apostate generation which seeks a sign. No sign will be given to it,...
CRISIS (Matthew 12:1-50) In Matthew 12:1-50 we read the history of a series of crucial events in the life of Jesus. In every man's life there are decisive moments, times and events on which the whole...
AS. just as. The Lord was dead, therefore Jonah must have been. Nothing is said about his being "preserved alive". That "sign" would have had no relation to what is here _signified._ See notes on Jona...
The Pharisees ask for a Sign St Luke 11:16; Luke 11:29-32. St Luke omits, or at least does not state explicitly, the special application of the sign given in Matthew 12:40, to understand which requir...
Jonah is a sign (1) as affording a type of the Resurrection, (2) as a preacher of righteousness to a people who needed repentance as this generation needs it. _the whale's belly_ The Greek word transl...
THE PHARISEES ASK FOR A SIGN St Luke 11:16; Luke 11:29-32. St Luke omits, or at least does not state explicitly, the special application of the sign given in Matthew 12:40, to understand which require...
Jonah is a sign (1) as affording a type of the Resurrection, (2) as a preacher of righteousness to a people who needed repentance as this generation needs it. ἘΝ ΤΗ͂Ι ΚΟΙΛΊΑΙ ΤΟΥ͂ ΚΉΤΟΥΣ. The A.V. in...
VER 38. THEN CERTAIN OF THE SCRIBES AND OF THE PHARISEES ANSWERED, SAYING, "MASTER, WE WOULD SEE A SIGN FROM THEE." 39. BUT HE ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THEM, "AN EVIL AND ADULTEROUS GENERATION SEEKETH A...
_THE CLAIMS OF THE SAVIOR MATTHEW 12:38-45:_ Jesus had every right to call on people to repent and to be righteous, (1) He is greater than the temple (Matthew 12:6), (2) He is greater that Jonah (Matt...
ΏΣΠΕΡ (G5618) как. ΚΉΤΟΥΣ _gen. sing. от_ ΚΉΤΟΣ (G2785) морское чудище, громадная рыба. Об Ионе в иудаизме _см._ SB, 1:642-49; DJG, 754-56. ΗΜΈΡΑΣ _асс. pl. от_ ΗΜΈΡΑ (G2250) _асс._ времени: "в тече...
DISCOURSE: 1357 JONAH A TYPE OF CHRIST Matthew 12:39. But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign, and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign o...
FOR AS JONAS WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS— See the note on Jonah 1:17. Instead of _the whale's,_ we should read _the fish's belly._ It is no where in the Old Testament said that it was a _whale,_ a...
Section 29 JESUS GIVES THE SIGN OF JONAH (Possible Parallel: Luke 11:16; Luke 11:24; Luke 11:26; Luke 11:29-32) TEXT: 12:38-45 38.
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. FOR AS JONAS WAS - "a sign unto the Ninevites, s...
24 It is usual to associate this chief of the demons with the god of Ekron, called Baalzebub, _ Owner _ or _ Lord of Flies _ (2Ki_1:2). This the Septuagint renders _ Baal muian, Baal fly_. But all the...
PLUCKING CORN ON THE SABBATH. BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST 1-8. Plucking the corn on the sabbath (Mark 2:23; Luke 6:1). This chapter begins the period of active conflict with the Pharisees. It is...
A SIGN DEMANDED. Astounding impudence after they had just ascribed His miracles to Beelzebub, and declared Him possessed with an unclean spirit. It was the practice of Jesus to work signs for those wh...
THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS] The difficulty is that our Lord only lay in the grave _two_ nights. The expression resembles the Jewish inclusive way of reckoning ('on the third day,' etc.), but goes bey...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 12 QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW TO USE GOD’S REST DAY 12:1-14 Matthew gives two examples of the ‘*yoke’ of the *Jewish law: 1. The *disciples...
AS JONAS WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS. — To understand the words rightly, we have to remember the prominence which our Lord gives to the history of Jonah, and to the repentance of the men of Nineve...
Chapter 10 The Shadow of the Cross - Matthew 11:1; Matthew 12:1 I-DISCOURAGEMENTS. Matthew 11:1 HITHERTO almost everything has been hopeful and encouraging in our Evangelist's record of the Saviour'...
_A sign asked and refused, with relative discourse_ (Luke 11:16; Luke 11:29-36). Both Matt.'s and Luke's reports convey the impression that the demand for a sign, and the enunciation of the Satanic th...
gives an entirely different turn to the reference. he verse cannot be challenged on critical grounds. If it is an interpolation, it must have become an accepted part of the text before the date of our...
OPPOSING OR DOING GOD'S WILL Matthew 12:38-50 It was an evil and adulterous age. It had no spiritual appreciation, and was intent on getting an outward and sensible sign. Nineveh itself would have co...
This chapter chronicles direct attacks on Christ. The first was petty and foolish. It is on the question of the Sabbath. The Master gives to His people the true conception of the sanctity of the Sabba...
In the whale's belly. [4] The word signifies a great fish, and was not perhaps that which we commonly call a whale. In the prophet Jonas, it is called, a great fish. --- Three days and three nights; n...
CHAPTER 24 THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES SEEK A SIGN FROM HEAVEN Matthew 12:38-45; Luke 11:16-36. “Then certain ones of the scribes and Pharisees responded, saying, Master, we wish to see a sign from The...
"Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. (39) But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a si...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
At length the rejection of the nation, in consequence of their contempt of the Lord, is plainly shewn, as well as the cessation of all His relations with them as such, in order to bring out on God's p...
FOR AS JONAS WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE WHALE'S BELLY,.... Or "in the belly of a great fish", as is said, Jonah 1:17 for that it was a whale, is not there said, nor is it certain it was; n...
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. Ver. 40. _For as Jonas was three days, &c._] In th...
_Then certain of the scribes_, &c. Now present, upon hearing how plainly Christ admonished, and how severely he rebuked them, _answered_ Probably with a view to divert the discourse to another topic,...
IN THE WHALE'S BELLY; in which he was a type of Christ's burial. THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS; that is, parts of three days and nights. The burial of Christ took place on Friday. That was reckoned, acc...
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. An evil brood and adulterous He calls them. He saw...
The refusal:...
We have seen that Matthew groups events with a dispensational end in view, and chapter 12 shows a building up on Israel's part to a state of utter rejection of their Messiah. The expression "at that t...
38-45 Though Christ is always ready to hear and answer holy desires and prayers, yet those who ask amiss, ask and have not. Signs were granted to those who desired them to confirm their faith, as Abr...
OLBGrk; Ver. 39,40. AN EVIL AND ADULTEROUS GENERATION; either called adulterous for that specific sin, which reigned amongst them, and indeed their polygamy was hardly better; or else because of their...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Trallians At the dawning of the Lord's day He arose from the dead, according to what was spoken by Himself, "As Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale's belly,...
Matthew 12:40 For G1063 as G5618 Jonah G2495 was G2258 (G5713) three G5140 days G2250 and G2532 three...
“For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the large fish, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” His first sign is typical of Scripture,...
Matthew 12:40. IN THE BELLY OF THE WHALE, or ‘great fish.' (Comp. Jonah 1:17, chap. 2) Probably a white shark, which reaches an immense size in the Mediterranean. Our Lord vouches for the main fact....
INTRODUCTORY NOTE. These occurrences seem to have followed each other in immediate succession. Luke places the last one (Matthew 12:46-50) after the parable of the sower, but Mark gives the same order...
Matthew 12:39 Jonah being spoken of in the text as a type of Christ, let us consider that part of his history which is typical. It is contained in the first and second Chapter s, and presents us with...
Matthew 12:38 Truth through and by life. Consider in what respects Christ was greater than Solomon. I. The Proverbs could not well be spared from the Bible nor dropped out of the life of the world....
Matthew 12:38. _Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh...
Matthew 12:38. _Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. But he answered and said unto them, an evil and adulterous generation seeketh...
CONTENTS: Jesus announces Himself Lord of Sabbath, Controversy with Pharisees. Healing of the withered hand. A demoniac healed. The unpardonable sin. Death and resurrection foretold. Deficiency of sel...
Matthew 12:2. _Thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath- day._ The pharisees did not find fault with eating a few ears of barley in their hunger, while others enjoyed their fea...
IN THE SAME WAY THAT JONAH. _See_ Jonah 1:17. (Note there is no "whale" there. It was a "big fish," possibly a white shark which is reported to be able to swallow a horse whole. God prepared it specia...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 12:40 THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS means the combination of any part of three separate days. Jesus was raised “in three days,” since he was buried Friday afternoon (day one), re...
1-50 CHAPTER XII. _At that time Jesus went through the corn fields_ (Through the crops of corn becoming white, or ripe), &c. Luke adds that this Sabbath was the first from the second (_Vulg_.); which...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 12:38. A SIGN.—See Luke 11:16. They wanted something of an immediate and decisive nature, to show, not that His miracles were real—that they seemed willing to concede—but that...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 12:1 The opposition that our Lord met with (1) from his enemies (Matthew 12:1); (2) from his relations (Matthew 12:46-4
Shall we turn to the twelfth chapter of the gospel of Matthew? Jesus was not one to follow traditions. He's already pointed out in the Sermon on the Mount, that through their interpretation of the law...
John 2:19; Jonah 1:17; Jonah 2:2; Matthew 16:21; Matthew 17:23;...
The whale [τ ο υ κ η τ ο υ ς]. A general term for a sea - monster....
Three days and three nights — It was customary with the eastern nations to reckon any part of a natural day of twenty — four hours, for the whole day. Accordingly they used to say a thing was done aft...
(CF. JOHN 19:14)— If Jesus was crucified on Friday, how could He have been in the grave three days and nights? PROBLEM: Christ rose on Sunday (Matthew 28:1), but He stated that He would be “three days...