Matthew 12:41
The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
KJV
ἄνδρες Νινευεῖται ἀναστήσονται ἐν τῇ κρίσει μετὰ τῆς γενεᾶς ταύτης καὶ κατακρινοῦσιν αὐτήν, ὅτι μετενόησαν εἰς τὸ κήρυγμα Ἰωνᾶ, καὶ ἰδοὺ πλεῖον Ἰωνᾶ ὧδε.
Greek NT
Viri Ninivitæ surgent in judicio cum generatione ista, et condemnabunt eam : quia pœnitentiam egerunt in prædicatione Jonæ, et ecce plus quam Jonas hic.
Vulgate
The men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, a greater than Jonah is here.
ASV
The men of Ninive shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they did penance at the preaching of Jonas. And behold a greater than Jonas here.
Douay-Rheims
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In this verse
People
Jonah
Places
Nineveh
In the original Greek
20 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Νινευΐτης
nineuites
noun · 3×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γενεά
genea
noun · 43×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
κήρυγμα
kerugma
noun · 8×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κατακρίνω
katakrino
verb · 20×
κρίσις
krisis
noun · 47×
μετά
meta
preposition · 469×
μετανοέω
metanoeo
verb · 34×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
πολύς
polus
adjective · 412×
ἀνήρ
aner
noun · 216×
ἀνίστημι
anistemi
verb · 107×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
Ἰωνᾶς
ionas
noun · 9×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὁράω
orao
verb · 682×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
ὧδε
ode
adverb · 60×
Intertextual echoes
This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.
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Jonah 3:5 · echo"So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them."Jonah: Nineveh repented — a greater than Jonah is here
Themes
Typology
Historic Christian voices
12 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Catechism of the Catholic Church · 2 passages
§590Only the divine identity of Jesus' person can justify so absolute a claim as "He who is not with me is against me"; and his saying that there was in him "something greater than Jonah,. . . greater than Solomon", something "greater than the Temple"; his reminder that David had called the Messiah his Lord,371 and his affirmations, "Before Abraham was, I AM", and even "I and the F…
§678Following in the steps of the prophets and John the Baptist, Jesus announced the judgement of the Last Day in his preaching.581 Then will the conduct of each one and the secrets of hearts be brought to light.582 Then will the culpable unbelief that counted the offer of God's grace as nothing be condemned.583 Our attitude to our neighbour will disclose acceptance or refusal of g…
Against Heresies (Adversus Haereses) · 2 passages
A vindication of the prophecy in Isaiah 7:14 against the misinterpretations of Theodotion, Aquila, the Ebionites, and the Jews. Authority of the Septuagint version. Arguments in proof that Christ was born of a virgin. 1. God, then, was made man, and the Lord did Himself save us, giving us the token of the Virgin. But not as some allege, among those now presuming to expound the …
Whosoever confesses that one God is the author of both Testaments, and diligently reads the Scriptures in company with the presbyters of the Church, is a true spiritual disciple; and he will rightly understand and interpret all that the prophets have declared respecting Christ and the liberty of the New Testament. 1. A spiritual disciple of this sort truly receiving the Spirit …
Homilies on Matthew · 3 passages
2. And why did they at all worship one who was in swaddling clothes? For if He had been a grown man, one might say, that in expectation of the succor they should receive from Him, they cast themselves into a danger which they foresaw; a thing however to the utmost degree unreasonable, that the Persian, the barbarian, and one that had nothing in common with the nation of the Jew…
2. But what is, Judging the twelve tribes of Israel? This is, condemning them. For they are not surely to sit as judges, but like as He said the Queen of the South should condemn that generation, and the Ninevites shall condemn them; so now these also. Therefore He said not, the nations, and the world, but the tribes of Israel. For since both the Jews alike and the apostles had…
2. Then, in order that you may see in another way also the justice of the sentence, He first praises them that have done right, and says, Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you before the foundation of the world. For I was an hungered, and you gave me meat, and all that follows. Matthew 25:34-40 For that they may not say, we had it not, He condemns…
Homilies on the Epistle to the Romans · 2 passages
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210206.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210231.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Chapter 5.—The Passages in Which the Saviour Declares that There Shall Be a Divine Judgment in the End of the World. The Saviour Himself, while reproving the cities in which He had done great works, but which had not believed, and while setting them in unfavorable comparison with foreign cities, says, “But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day…
Cross-references
- Ezek 3:6 — Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.
- Ezek 16:51 — Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.
- Heb 3:5 — And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
- Heb 11:7 — By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness whi
- Heb 11:7 — By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness whi
- Isa 54:17 — No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteous
- Jer 3:11 — And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
- John 3:31 — He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.
- John 4:12 — Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
- John 8:53 — Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?
- Jonah 1:2 — Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
- Jonah 3:5 — So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
- Jonah 3:5 — So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
- Luke 11:32 — The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
- Matt 3:2 — And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
- Matt 12:6 — But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.
- Matt 12:6 — But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.
- Matt 12:27 — And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges.
- Matt 12:39 — 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:
- Matt 12:42 — The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greate
- Matt 12:45 — Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also
- Matt 16:4 — A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
- Matt 17:17 — Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.
- Matt 23:36 — Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
- Rom 2:27 — And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
- Rom 2:27 — And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?