Matthew 12:41

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The people of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the proclamation of Jonah, and indeed something greater than Jonah is here!

Cross References

Isaiah 54:17

No weapon that is fashioned against you shall prosper, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their vindication from me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:11

Then the Lord said to me: Faithless Israel has shown herself less guilty than false Judah.

Jonah 1:2

“Go at once to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”

Jonah 3:4

Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s walk. And he cried out, “Forty days more, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”

Matthew 12:39

But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

Matthew 12:42

The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and indeed something greater than Solomon is here!

Matthew 12:45

Then it goes and brings along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and live there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So will it be also with this evil generation.”

Matthew 12:6

I tell you, something greater than the temple is here.

Matthew 16:4

An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” Then he left them and went away.

Matthew 17:17

Jesus answered, “You faithless and perverse generation, how much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I put up with you? Bring him here to me.”

Matthew 23:36

Truly I tell you, all this will come upon this generation.

Luke 11:32

The people of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the proclamation of Jonah, and indeed, something greater than Jonah is here!

John 3:31

The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. The one who comes from heaven is above all.

John 4:12

Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?”

Romans 2:27

Then the physically uncircumcised person who keeps the law will judge you who, though having the written code and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law.

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, warned by God about events as yet unseen, respected the warning and built an ark to save his household; by this he condemned the world and became an heir to the righteousness that is in accordance with faith.