The Lord’s answer to those seeking signs from Him.

(Mat. 12:38-45; Luke 11:29-32, 24_26).

The Jews were mislead by Jesus Christ’s humble state and they were demanding a sign from Him, which would clearly indicate His Divine worthiness of the Messiah. Those miracles which Christ performed through His love for suffering people, and through prayers of individuals, were not enough for them. They wanted to see “a sign from Heaven” (Mat. 16:1). Like enemies, they hypocritically ask for signs and are therefore called by Him as “evil and adulterous generation” (mat. 12:39; Luke 11:29), in the sense that they are not faithful to God. And this unfaithfulness was even pointed out by the Prophets, presenting the Jews’ idolatry in the form of unfaithfulness to God — adultery (Exod. 57:3; Ezekiel 16:15, 23-27). The Lord tells them that they will not be given any signs, pointing to the colossal miracle in the past and placing it as a symbol of the new: the preservation of Prophet Jonah in the bowels of a whale for the duration of 3 days; similarly Jesus, upon His physical death, will resurrect after three days. Actually, while Christ spent one day and two nights in the tomb, in the East, it has always been accepted to count part of a day or night as being whole (eg. 1 Kings 30:12; Genesis 42:17-18; 2 Chron. 10:5-12, and others). Ninevians — inhabitants of the city Nineveh, capital of the Assyrian kingdom on the banks of the Tiber (north of Babylon) — who repented as a result of Prophet Jonah’s sermon, will judge the Jews at the Last Judgment for not accepting their Messiah’s sermons, and for their stubbornness in not repenting. Queen Sheba of the south, from Arabia, also judged the Jews, because she came from a long distance to hear the wisdom of Solomon, while the Jews didn’t want to listen to the Actual Carnate Divine Great Wisdom, which was “greater than Solomons.” Further on, the Lord relates the parable of the unclean spirit that after leaving a person, re-entered him with his friends that were more evil than him. Through this parable, the Lord explains through observation that although He could force the Jews to believe in Him by performing an astonishing miracle, but because their moral decay was so great, that within a short time, their disbelief would return with even greater strength and stubbornness. Disbelief and decay within them — is the very evil spirit from the parable about the possessed. If a person remains careless, idle and inattentive to himself, then the evil spirit and passions that were once driven out, return with a much greater ferocity.