1. Thee Days and Three Nights
The Sign of Jonah—
Thee Days and Three Nights
Matt. 16:1-4

2. 1 Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing Him asked that He would show them a sign from heaven.
2 He answered and said to them, "When it is evening you say, 'It will be fair weather, for the sky is red';
3 and in the morning, 'It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.' Hypocrites! You know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times.
4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah." And He left them and departed.
Matt. 16:1-4

3. The Background of This Lesson

4. The Background of This Lesson
The definition of Pharisees & Sadducees

5. The Background of This Lesson
The definition of Pharisees & Sadducees
The motivation of Pharisees & Sadducees

6. The Background of This Lesson
The definition of Pharisees & Sadducees
The motivation of Pharisees & Sadducees
The character of Pharisees & Sadducees

7. The Background of This Lesson
The definition of Pharisees & Sadducees
The motivation of Pharisees & Sadducees
The character of Pharisees & Sadducees
Signs from heaven

8. The Background of This Lesson
The definition of Pharisees & Sadducees
The motivation of Pharisees & Sadducees
The character of Pharisees & Sadducees
Signs from heaven
The manna in the wilderness – Exo. 16:14

9. The Background of This Lesson
The definition of Pharisees & Sadducees
The motivation of Pharisees & Sadducees
The character of Pharisees & Sadducees
Signs from heaven
The manna in the wilderness – Exo. 16:14
Samuel’s thunder & rain Sam. 12:16-18

10. The Background of This Lesson
The definition of Pharisees & Sadducees
The motivation of Pharisees & Sadducees
The character of Pharisees & Sadducees
Signs from heaven
The manna in the wilderness – Exo. 16:14
Samuel’s thunder & rain Sam. 12:16-18
Isaiah “shortened” day – Isa. 38:7-8

11. The Background of This Lesson
The definition of Pharisees & Sadducees
The motivation of Pharisees & Sadducees
The character of Pharisees & Sadducees
Signs from heaven
Wicked/Adulterous generation seek signs

12. The Background of This Lesson
The definition of Pharisees & Sadducees
The motivation of Pharisees & Sadducees
The character of Pharisees & Sadducees
Signs from heaven
Wicked/Adulterous generation seek signs
The ultimate sign— “the sign of Jonah”

13. The Story of Jonah Chapter one—Jonah runs _________ God
Chapter two—Jonah runs _________ God
Chapter three—Jonah runs ________ God
Chapter four—Jonah runs _________ God

14. The Story of Jonah Chapter one—Jonah runs from God
Chapter two—Jonah runs _________ God
Chapter three—Jonah runs ________ God
Chapter four—Jonah runs _________ God

15. The Story of Jonah Chapter one—Jonah runs from God
Chapter two—Jonah runs to God
Chapter three—Jonah runs ________ God
Chapter four—Jonah runs _________ God

16. The Story of Jonah Chapter one—Jonah runs from God
Chapter two—Jonah runs to God
Chapter three—Jonah runs ________ God
Chapter four—Jonah runs _________ God

17. The Story of Jonah Chapter one—Jonah runs from God
Chapter two—Jonah runs to God
Chapter three—Jonah runs with God
Chapter four—Jonah runs _________ God

18. The Story of Jonah Chapter one—Jonah runs from God
Chapter two—Jonah runs to God
Chapter three—Jonah runs with God
Chapter four—Jonah runs _________ God

19. The Story of Jonah Chapter one—Jonah runs from God
Chapter two—Jonah runs to God
Chapter three—Jonah runs with God
Chapter four—Jonah runs ahead of God

20. The Three Days and Three Nights

21. The Three Days and Three Nights
The sign is not a “72 hours” sign

22. The Three Days and Three Nights
The sign is not a “72 hours” sign
Language to describe time Jesus in tomb

23. The Three Days and Three Nights
The sign is not a “72 hours” sign
Language to describe time Jesus in tomb
Three days

24. The Three Days and Three Nights
The sign is not a “72 hours” sign
Language to describe time Jesus in tomb
Three days
John 2:19 Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."
John 2:20 Then the Jews said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?“

25. The Three Days and Three Nights
The sign is not a “72 hours” sign
Language to describe time Jesus in tomb
Three days
After three days

26. The Three Days and Three Nights
The sign is not a “72 hours” sign
Language to describe time Jesus in tomb
Three days
After three days
Matt. 27:63 saying, "Sir, we remember, while He was still alive, how that deceiver said, 'After three days I will rise.'
Mark 8:31 And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

27. The Three Days and Three Nights
The sign is not a “72 hours” sign
Language to describe time Jesus in tomb
Three days
After three days
On the third day

28. The Three Days and Three Nights
The sign is not a “72 hours” sign
Language to describe time Jesus in tomb
Three days
After three days
On the third day
Matt. 16:21; 17:23; 20:19; 27:64
Mark 9:31; 10:34
Luke 9:22; 13:32*; 18:33; 24:7; 24:21*; 24:46f God

29. The Three Days and Three Nights
The sign is not a “72 hours” sign
Language to describe time Jesus in tomb
Three days
After three days
On the third day
A contradiction??

30. The Three Days and Three Nights
The sign is not a “72 hours” sign
Language to describe time Jesus in tomb
Three days
After three days
On the third day
A contradiction??
In English—Yes!!

31. Jewish Three Days and Three Nights
Rehoboam and the people
2 Chron. 10:4, 5 “after three days”
2 Chron. 10: “the third day”
A contradiction??
In Jewish Time—NO!!

32. Jewish Three Days and Three Nights
Rehoboam and the people
2 Chron. 10:4, 5 “after three days”
2 Chron. 10: “the third day”
Joseph and his friends in prison
Gen. 42:17 “three days”
Gen. 42:18 “the third day”
A contradiction??
In Jewish Time—NO!!

33. Jewish Three Days and Three Nights
Rehoboam and the people
2 Chron. 10:4, 5 “after three days”
2 Chron. 10: “the third day”
Joseph and his friends in prison
Gen. 42:17 “three days”
Gen. 42:18 “the third day”
Esther and the Jews
Esther 4:16 “three days, day and night”
Esther 5:1 “On the third day”
A contradiction??
In Jewish Time—NO!!

34. A Very Important Aspect of This

35. A Very Important Aspect of This
The day of His resurrection!

36. A Very Important Aspect of This
The day of His resurrection!
The greatest sign was the presence of Jesus

37. A Very Important Aspect of This
The day of His resurrection!
The greatest sign was the presence of Jesus
Matt. 12: Jonah was a sign to Nineveh, Jesus was the sign to Jews!

38. A Very Important Aspect of This
The day of His resurrection!
The greatest sign was the presence of Jesus
Matt. 12: Jonah was a sign to Nineveh, Jesus was the sign to Jews!
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.

39. One Greater than Jonah Says Added to His Kingdom, His church
Believe in Him John 3:16
Repent—decide to obey Acts 17:30
Confess Christ Rom. 10:9
Baptized to be saved Acts 22:16
Added to His Kingdom, His church
Be faithful until death Rev. 2:10