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NASB | Matthew 12:40 for just as JONAH WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE BELLY OF THE SEA MONSTER, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 12:40 for just as JONAH WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE BELLY OF THE SEA MONSTER, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. [Jon 1:17] |
Subject: Did Jonah die in the belly of the fish? |
Bible Note: Dear Ursus57, I think that there is less significance in the "whale" than by the other phrase you used: "specially prepared" (cf Jonah 1:17a). The book of Jonah is about salvation: the sailors lives were spared from the raging sea (Jonah 1:14) and they also became believers (Jonah 1:15). Jonah was spared from drowning by means of the great fish (Jonah 1:17). Jonah was saved from the great fish by being spit out upon dry land (Jonah 2:10). That generation of the Ninevites and their city were spared from divine destruction (Jonah 3:10; 4:11). The book tells us about God: both His judgment and His provision of salvation, for Jonah, the sailors, and the Ninevites. God actively and specifically intervenes as He invades history "in the fullness of time" (Galatians 4:4a) working out His eternal purpose (Ephesians 3:11), while man is least expecting it (Matthew 24:38). In Him, Doc |