The Sign of Jonah — Prefiguration of Christ's Resurrection
Fulfilled760 BC — Nineveh
Jesus himself declared Jonah's experience as a prophetic sign: "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." (Matthew 12:40). Jonah's three days in the fish became the defining Old Testament prefiguration of Christ's death, burial, and resurrection.