"Then, some teachers of the law and some Pharisees spoke up, 'Teacher, we want to see a sign from YOU.' JESUS answered them, 'An evil and unfaithful people want a sign; but no sign will be given them except the sign of the prophet Jonah. In the same way, as Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man spend three days and three nights in the hearth of the earth.
At the judgment, the people of Nineveh will rise with this generation, and condemn it; because they reformed their lives at the preaching of Jonah, and here, there is greater than Jonah. At the judgment, the Queen of the South will stand up and condemn you. She came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and here, there is greater than Solomon.'" - Matthew 12:38-42
(JESUS did not perform any miracle that day, because the experts in religion were demanding an account of HIM, instead of listening to HIM.
An evil and unfaithful people. The text of the Gospel says in fact: "evil and adulterous". This expression in Scripture means the unfaithful believer who, without denying GOD in words, keeps other gods to himself.
The story of the unclean spirit, meaning the devil, is directed towards the contemporaries of JESUS. They accepted John's call to conversion and for a while changed their way of life. Theirs was not a real experience of GOD, neither did they discover the inner power that would have enabled them to persevere, and so their blindness remained.
The Ninevites: see Jonah 3:5
The Queen of the South: 1 Kings 10
The sign of Jonah is the resurrection of JESUS. The similarity seen in the three days that Jonah was in the belly of the fish and the time JESUS spent in the tomb is somewhat forced.)
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