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{{cquote|MT <sup>12:39</sup> <nowiki>[Jesus]</nowiki> answered, "A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a miraculous sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. <sup>40</sup> For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. <sup>41</sup> The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now one greater than Jonah is here..."<ref>{{hnb|Zondervan|2002}}, MT 12:39-41, see also MT 16:4, LK 11:29-32, </ref>}}
{{cquote|MT <sup>12:39</sup> <nowiki>[Jesus]</nowiki> answered, "A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a miraculous sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. <sup>40</sup> For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. <sup>41</sup> The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now one greater than Jonah is here..."<ref>{{hnb|Zondervan|2002}}, MT 12:39-41, see also MT 16:4, LK 11:29-32, </ref>}}
Other theologians quoted in ''The Bible Encyclopedia'' argue that Jesus is using an illustration in the same way that we might quote one of His parables, and that this does not necessarily mean that the events literally happened in the same way that we accept that the stories in the parables of Jesus did not literally happen. <ref> http://www.bible-history.com/isbe/J/JONAH,+THE+BOOK+OF/ </ref>
=== Other Bible Commentators on Jonah ===
=== Other Bible Commentators on Jonah ===
Some theologians argue that the story of Jonah and the whale is an [[allegorical|allegory]] prefiguring of the three days between the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. <ref> http://www.answers.com/topic/typology-theology</ref> <ref> http://www.ctsfw.edu/library/files/pb/1253 </ref>
Others, particularly Jewish scholars, argue that it is a [[Midrash]] <ref> http://www.myjewishlearning.com/texts/bible/TO_Prophets_1460/TOLiteraryProphets/MinorProphets/JonahSimon.htm </ref>
More recent theological commentators have outlined reasons for thinking of the story of Jonah as not even a [[Midrash]] or [[allegory]] but as satire <ref> http://seminary.csl.edu/facultypubs/TheologyandPractice/tabid/87/ctl/Details/mid/494/ItemID/40/Default.aspx </ref>.
== Rabbinical Tradition ==
== Rabbinical Tradition ==
== Challenges from secular humanists, atheists, and agnostics ==
== Challenges from secular humanists, atheists, and agnostics ==
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Not only some humanists, atheists and agnostics but many Christians also assert that if this event actually occurred, it must have been a miracle, as the gullet of a whale is only about nine inches in diameter, and it would not be physically possible for a whale to swallow a human being whole.<ref>http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/whales/shore_whaling_industry.html</ref> Moreover, bodies of squid recovered from the stomachs of whales show corrosion from digestive juices.
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