Notice that it’s not Jesus’ resurrection itself that is the sign of Jonah—but the teaching of the resurrected Jesus that is the sign. For just as the Ninevites heard Jonah’s teaching but didn’t watch Jonah being spewed out of the great fish, we hear Jesus’ teaching but can’t watch Jesus emerging from his tomb. But as Jonah’s extraordinary experience authenticated his message to the Ninevites as coming from God to them, so Jesus’ resurrection authenticates his teaching, proclaimed by the apostles and now preserved in the Bible, as coming from God to us. We need to take the teaching of Jesus,
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