Bible Cross References
For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.
Luke 24:46
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 24:47
and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Jonah 1:17
[ 2:1] Now the Lord had commanded a great whale to swallow up Jonah; and Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights.
Jonah 2:10
[ 2:11] And the whale was commanded by the Lord, and it cast up Jonah on the dry land.
Jonah 3:2-10
2
Rise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach in it according to the former preaching which I spoke to you of.
3
And Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, as the Lord had spoken. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, of about three days' journey.
4
And Jonah began to enter into the city about a day's journey, and he preached, and said, Yet three days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
5
And the men of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.
6
And the word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from off his throne, and took off his robe, and put on sackcloth, and sat on ashes.
7
And proclamation was made, and it was commanded in Nineveh by the king and by his great men, saying, Let not men, or cattle, or oxen, or sheep, taste any thing, nor feed, nor drink water.
8
So men and cattle were clothed with sackcloth, and cried earnestly to God; and they turned everyone from their evil way, and from the iniquity that was in their hands, saying,
9
Who knows if God will relent, and turn from His fierce anger, and so we shall not perish?
10
And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil ways; and God relented of the evil which He had said He would do to them; and He did it not.
Matthew 12:40-42
40
For just 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 shall stand up in the judgment with this generation and shall condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, a greater [than] Jonah [is] here.
42
The queen of the South shall rise up in the judgment with this generation and she shall condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, a greater [than] Solomon [is] here.