Matthew 12:38-45, NIV
Map stones: ..signs …three days three nights in the belly of a huge fish-the Son of Man..three days and three nights in the heart of the earth; Nineveh-preaching of Jonah..repented..; Queen of the South..listen to Solomon’s wisdom…; evil spirit comes out…return…worse..
Thoughts: repentance and be filled with the Spirit of God.
Matthew 12:38-45
[38]Then some teachers of the Law and some Pharisees spoke up. “Teacher,” they said, “we want to see you perform a miracle.”
[39]“How evil and godless are the people of this day!” Jesus exclaimed. “You ask me for a miracle? No! The only miracle you will be given is the miracle of the prophet Jonah.
[40]In the same way that Jonah spent three days and nights in the big fish, so will the Son of Man spend three days and nights in the depths of the earth.
[41]On Judgement Day the people of Nineveh will stand up and accuse you, because they turned from their sins when they heard Jonah preach; and I tell you that there is something here greater than Jonah!
[42]On Judgement Day the Queen of Sheba will stand up and accuse you, because she travelled all the way from her country to listen to King Solomon’s wise teaching; and I assure you that there is something here greater than Solomon!
[43]“When an evil spirit goes out of a person, it travels over dry country looking for a place to rest. If it can’t find one,
[44]it says to itself, ‘I will go back to my house.’ So it goes back and finds the house empty, clean, and all tidy.
[45]Then it goes out and brings along seven other spirits even worse than itself, and they come and live there. So when it is all over, that person is in a worse state than he was at the beginning. This is what will happen to the evil people of this day.”