Context: Mat 12:38 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.”
Mat 12:39 But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign; but no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
Mat 12:40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Mat 12:41 The men of Nineveh will arise 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.
Mat 12:42 The queen of the South will arise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
Mat 12:43 “When the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places seeking rest, but he finds none.
Mat 12:44 Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes he finds it empty, swept, and put in order.
Mat 12:45 Then he goes and brings with him seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. So shall it be also with this evil generation.”.
GREEK VERBS:
| 2532 [e] kai καὶ and Conj |
| 3708 [e] idou ἰδοὺ , behold V-AMA-2S |
| 4119 [e] pleion πλεῖον greater Adj-NNS-C |
| 2495 [e] Iōna Ἰωνᾶ than Jonah N-GMS |
| 5602 [e] hōde ὧδε . here Adv |
| ; of Solomon N-GMS |
| 2532 [e] kai καὶ and Conj |
| 3708 [e] idou ἰδοὺ , behold V-AMA-2S |
| 4119 [e] pleion πλεῖον greater Adj-NNS-C |
| 4672 [e] Solomōnos Σολομῶνος than Solomon N-GMS |
| 5602 [e] hōde ὧδε . here Adv |
RESOURCES
What are the commands of Jesus Christ which we need to obey? In disciple-making, Jesus commanded the following in Matthew 28:20: “teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you…” What are the commands that we are to follow and teach others as identified by Jesus’ use of the imperative mood in the Greek?
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