41The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
Jesus is greater than Jonah. God’s Spirit dwells in him, and all demons yield before him.1 The truth is that while these Gentiles repented at the preaching of the prophet Jonah, the Jewish people rejected Christ, who is greater than Jonah.2
41 The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.