Luke 11:29-32

No man knows the exact time of the return of Jesus but all of us long for it but with anxiety wanting for as many as possible to be saved.

Look up your Redeemer is closer everyday.

The sign of Jonah here refers to his prophetic call to repentance rather than to the resurrection foreshadowed by Jonah’s return from the belly of the great fish.

Because Jesus is greater than those who proclaimed God’s word in those days—Solomon and Jonah, His word should have been heeded by the first-century Israelites.

Luke 11:29-32

²⁹ And while the crowds were thickly gathered together, He began to say, “This is an evil generation. It seeks a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet. 

³⁰ For as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also the Son of Man will be to this generation. ³¹ The queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and indeed a greater than Solomon is here. ³² The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a greater than Jonah is here.

⁴⁰ For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. ⁴¹ The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a greater than Jonah is here. ⁴² The queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and indeed a greater than Solomon is here. 

Matthew 12:38–42

²² For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; 

1 Corinthians 1:22

⁴⁶ Then He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, 

Luke 24:46

⁴⁰ Him God raised up on the third day, and showed Him openly, 

Acts 10:40

⁴ and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, 

1 Corinthians 15:4

⁷ For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. 

Matthew 24:7

⁵ of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, the eternally blessed God. Amen. 

Romans 9:5

⁵ So the people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them. 

Jonah 3:5

¹² I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood. 

Revelation 6:12

¹⁹ Then the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple. And there were lightnings, noises, thunderings, an earthquake, and great hail.

Revelation 11:19