The Sign of The Prophet Jonah

[Soul Language]

When the Pharases and Saducces asked jesus for a sign and responded saying "An evil generation asks for a sign, but none will be given to it accept the sign of The Prophet Jonah".. "For Just as Jonah was in the belly of a fish for three says, so will the son of man be in the heart of the earth for three days"

What does this mean?

 

[Diamondlight]

Matthew Henry explains it much better than i could...

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
12:38-45 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 Abraham and Gideon; but denied to those who demanded them to excuse their unbelief. The resurrection of Christ from the dead by his own power, called here the sign of the prophet Jonah, was the great proof of Christ's being the Messiah. As Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale, and then came out again alive, thus Christ would be so long in the grave, and then rise again. The Ninevites would shame the Jews for not repenting; the queen of Sheba, for not believing in Christ. And we have no such cares to hinder us, we come not to Christ upon such uncertainties.

This parable represents the case of the Jewish church and nation. It is also applicable to all those who hear the word of God, and are in part reformed, but not truly converted. The unclean spirit leaves for a time, but when he returns, he finds Christ is not there to shut him out; the heart is swept by outward reformation, but garnished by preparation to comply with evil suggestions, and the man becomes a more decided enemy of the truth.

Every heart is the residence of unclean spirits, except those which are temples of the Holy Ghost, by faith in Christ.

 

[Soul Language]

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the heart is swept by outward reformation, but garnished by preparation to comply with evil suggestions, and the man becomes a more decided enemy of the truth.
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What? Explain better please.. I have no idea what u r saying here.

 

[Logos57]

When the Pharases and Saducces asked jesus for a sign and responded saying "An evil generation asks for a sign, but none will be given to it accept the sign of The Prophet Jonah".. "For Just as Jonah was in the belly of a fish for three says, so will the son of man be in the heart of the earth for three days"

What does this mean?

Jonah was in the belly of a fish three days. Later while Paul was writing about the Gospel. He wrote:
3) For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4) And that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the scriptures.
I Corinthians 15:3-4

We see from Peter preaching on the day of Pentecost, that Jesus' Soul was in Hell, (Acts 2:27-32). No He wasn't being torture, but contrawise He was preaching, during those three days:
18) For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
19) By which also He went and preached unto the spirit in prison;
I Peter 3:18-19

Many have likened Jonah three days and nights, in the fish to death. Whereas Jesus was physically dead for three days and nights. But Praise God, Jesus arose the Third Day.