The sign of Jonah is Jesus’ death and resurrection. In Matthew 16:4 Jesus refuses the Pharisees and Sadducees any sign “but the sign of the prophet Jonas.” Matthew 12:40 explains it: like Jonah in the fish, the Son of Man would be “three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” What happens in Matthew 16:1–4? “The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven” (Matthew 16:1).…

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