Matthew 12:40

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 12:38-42

Matthew 12:38-Luke : . The Request for a Sign Refused ( Luke 11:29-Jonah :. From Q. Cf. Mark 8:11 f.*= Matthew 16:1-Exodus : a, Matthew 16:4).— Mt. uses the incident here as an additional illustration of the hostility between the Pharisees and Jesus. They ask for some more authentic and unique attestation of His claim than a miracle of healing or an everyday exorcism. But to a people that has been God’ s unfaithful bride no sign shall be given but that of Jonah. As he, coming from a... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 12:40

An evil and adulterous generation; either called adulterous for that specific sin, which reigned amongst them, and indeed their polygamy was hardly better; or else because of their degeneracy from Abraham, whom they so much gloried in as their father, John 8:39,John 8:44. Seeketh after a sign; not satisfied with my miracles which I do on earth, they would have a sign from heaven. God was not difficult of confirming and encouraging people’s faith by signs; he gave Gideon a sign upon his asking,... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 12:38-45

CRITICAL NOTESMatthew 12:38. A sign.—See Luke 11:16. They wanted something of an immediate and decisive nature, to show, not that His miracles were real—that they seemed willing to concede—but that they were from above, not from beneath (Brown). Gerlach and Lisco suggest that these Pharisees were better inclined, and less opposed to Jesus, than the others. But in our opinion they were rather the worst among the bad (Lange).Matthew 12:39. Adulterous.—Adultery, taken in a spiritual sense,... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 12:38-43

Matthew 12:38-43 Truth through and by life. Consider in what respects Christ was greater than Solomon. I. The Proverbs could not well be spared from the Bible nor dropped out of the life of the world. They are of highest use, and ought to be read and re-read, for their wisdom, their broad interpretation of life, and their ethical value. If they were heeded and obeyed they would bring the individual, the family, the community, the nation into a state of ideal perfection. Their lack is that they... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 12:39-40

Matthew 12:39-40 Jonah being spoken of in the text as a type of Christ, let us consider that part of his history which is typical. It is contained in the first and second chapters, and presents us with the following pictures: I. Man shunning God's presence. Like those mariners who, leaving the sacred soil which was the place of God's sanctuary and the scene of God's revelations, launched forth upon the waste salt billows and made for the great heathen mart of Tarshish, so went man forth from... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Matthew 12:39-41

DISCOURSE: 1357JONAH A TYPE OF CHRISTMatthew 12:39-41. But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign, and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the Prophet Jonas. For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Matthew 12:1-50

Shall we turn to the twelfth chapter of the gospel of Matthew?Jesus was not one to follow traditions. He's already pointed out in the Sermon on the Mount, that through their interpretation of the law, they have thoroughly disallowed the law, for the purposes that God intended it. For they were interpreting the law after a physical sense. "Thou shalt not kill," interpreting that as clubbing your enemy to death. But Jesus said, no, really if you have hatred in your heart for your brother, you're... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 12:1-50

Matthew 12:2 . Thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath- day. The pharisees did not find fault with eating a few ears of barley in their hunger, while others enjoyed their feasts, because it was allowed by the law of Moses, provided they put nought of the fruit in their vessel, or their pouch; but they objected on the ground of the sabbath. Now, the appeal which Jesus made to David’s eating the holy bread, which belonged exclusively to the priests, shows that the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Matthew 12:40

40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. Ver. 40. For as Jonas was three days, &c. ] In the history of Jonah, Christ found the mystery of his death, burial, and resurrection; teaching us thereby to search the Scriptures-to search them to the bottom; as those that dig for gold content not themselves with the first or second ore that offers itself, but search on till they have all.... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Matthew 12:40

as: Jonah 1:17 so: Matthew 16:21, Matthew 17:23, Matthew 27:40, Matthew 27:63, Matthew 27:64, John 2:19 in the heart: Psalms 63:9, Jonah 2:2-Joshua : Reciprocal: Genesis 1:21 - great 1 Samuel 2:6 - he bringeth 2 Samuel 1:2 - the third 2 Samuel 18:14 - midst 1 Kings 22:2 - in the third 2 Kings 14:25 - Jonah Esther 4:16 - eat nor drink Psalms 69:15 - waterflood Matthew 15:32 - three Matthew 16:4 - wicked Matthew 16:13 - I the Matthew 20:19 - the third Matthew 28:6 - as Mark 8:12 - There Mark... read more

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