There are said to be no less than 164 unmistakable quotations from or references to the Old Testament scriptures in the recorded teaching of Jesus: half of these are taken from that section the modernists have most bitterly attacked: the Pentateuch - the five books of Moses.
• His reference to various OT judgments: the flood in Noah’s day; the fire and brimstone upon Sodom and Gomorrah; the turning of Lot’s wife into a pillar of salt, (Luke 17:32).
• His defence of the Book of Jonah. (Regarded as something of a scoffer’s paradise!)
- Jonah: three days and nights in the belly of the great fish; Matthew 12:40. - The men of Nineveh, to whom Jonah preached; Matthew 12:41.
Are we meant to interpret Christ’s endorsement of this Book of Jonah, and all the events contained within it, as: imaginary persons, who at the imaginary preaching of an imaginary prophet who had an imaginary experience, repented in imagination, and shall rise up in the day of judgment to condemn the actual hard-heartedness and unbelief of those who actually heard Christ’s words in Matthew 12?!
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