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Matthew 12:39-41
New English Translation

39 But he answered them,[a] “An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 40 For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish[b] for three days and three nights,[c] so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights. 41 The people[d] of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented when Jonah preached to them[e]—and now,[f] something greater than Jonah is here!

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 12:39 tn Grk “But answering, he said to them.” This construction is somewhat redundant in English and has been simplified in the translation.
  2. Matthew 12:40 tn Grk “large sea creature.”
  3. Matthew 12:40 sn A quotation from Jonah 1:17.
  4. Matthew 12:41 tn Grk “men”; the word here (ἀνήρ, anēr) usually indicates males or husbands, but occasionally is used in a generic sense of people in general, as here (cf. BDAG 79 s.v. 1.a, 2).
  5. Matthew 12:41 tn Grk “at the preaching of Jonah.”
  6. Matthew 12:41 tn Grk “behold.”
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