Ero sivun ”Joonan kirja” versioiden välillä

The earliest Christian interpretations of Jonah are found in the [[Gospel of Matthew]] (see Matthew 12:38-42 and 16:1-4) and the [[Gospel of Luke]] (see Luke 11:29-32). Both Matthew and Luke record a tradition of Jesus’ interpretation of the story of Jonah (notably, Matthew includes two very similar traditions in chapters 12 and 16). As with most Old Testament interpretations found in the New Testament, Jesus’ interpretation is primarily ‘’typological’’. Jonah becomes a ‘’type’’ for Jesus. Jonah spent three days in the belly of the fish; Jesus will spend three days in the ground. Here, Jesus plays on the imagery of [[Sheol]] found in Jonah’s prayer. While Jonah metaphorically declared, “Out of the belly of Sheol I cried,” Jesus will literally be in the belly of Sheol. Finally, Jesus compares his generation to the people of Nineveh. Jesus fulfills his role as a type of Jonah, however his generation fails to fulfills its role as a type of Nineveh. Nineveh repented but his generation, which has seen and heard one even greater thangreaten Jonah, fails to repent. Through his typological interpretation of the story of Jonah, Jesus has weighed his generation and found it wanting.