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will be given no sign except the sign of Jonah; just as Jonah was a sign to the people of Nineveh, so shall the Son of Man be to this generation. The men of Nineveh will rise at the Judgement with this generation and will indict it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah the prophet, and here there is One greater than Jonah.
Then David says in his prophecy concerning him: “Who is this man whom You have remembered and set…”
لَا يُعْطَى إِلَّا آيَةَ يُونُسَ، كَمَا كَانَ يُونُسُ لِأَهْلِ
" نِينَوَى "
: كَذَلِكَ يَكُونُ ابْنُ الْبَشَرِ لِهَذَا الْجِيلِ، رِجَالُ نِينَوَى يَقُومُونَ فِي الدِّينِ مَعَ هَذَا الْجِيلِ فَيَخْصِمُونَهُمْ، لِأَنَّهُمْ تَابُوا عَلَى قَوْلِ يُونُسَ النَّبِيِّ، وَإِنَّ هَاهُنَا أَفْضَلَ مِنْ يُونُسَ) .
ثُمَّ قَوْلُ دَاوُدَ فِي نُبُوَّتِهِ عَلَيْهِ:
(مَنْ هَذَا الرَّجُلُ الَّذِي ذَكَرْتَهُ وَجَعَلْتَهُ