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Matthew 12:41 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 41. 41The 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.
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Role in This Section
Summons Nineveh's repentance under Jonah as judgment evidence against this response.
Read It With
- Matthew 12:38–12:45
Matthew 12:41 summons Nineveh's repentance under Jonah as judgment evidence against this response; within Matthew 12:38–12:45, it contributes to this controlling movement: Scribes and Pharisees request a sign, Jesus points to Jonah and the Son of man's burial, names Nineveh and the queen as witnesses, and warns about an emptied house retaken by greater evil.
Why It Needs Context
Summons Nineveh's repentance under Jonah as judgment evidence against this response. Its responsible force depends on Matthew 12:38–12:45; it supplies genealogy, sequence, quotation, dialogue, image, response, or transition rather than a complete standalone teaching.
Continue in Context
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Read Matthew 12:38–12:45 — The sign of Jonah confronts sign-demanding unbeliefSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Matthew 12:38–12:45, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and punctuation control without treating one edition as a complete apparatus.
Exact location: SBLGNT official text file data/sblgnt/text/Matt.txt, Matthew 12:38–12:45
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