Divine Jesus: The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it. Matthew 12:41

The Gospel of Saint Matthew relates that Jesus, after the Sermon on the Mount, where he first announced the Kingdom of God, the empire or dominion of the divine perfections, the spiritual teacher began to perform the signs and miracles that manifested this Kingdom among the hopeless, the poor, and the oppressed.
A new message was coming to the children of Abraham according to the flesh, a message that would come later to the children of Abraham according to the spirit, a message that was an invitation to a new lifestyle, and a new type of spiritual freedom no longer based on compliance of imperatives. But this message, while accepted by some, was also rejected by others; during the life of Jesus on earth, this Kingdom had friends but also enemies, and Jesus knew this fact.
And the Gospel of Matthew relates that after Jesus healed a man with a crippled hand and another who was blind and mute during the Sabbath, a situation arose in which the Pharisees and scribes plotted against him, because the love that Jesus showed was against the law; and so to test Jesus, they asked him for a new sign. And so Jesus answered them in a very special way with these words: "A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah" Matthew 12:39.
Jonah was an Old Testament prophet who was swallowed by a whale and remained inside for three days; with this, Jesus metaphorically prophesied his own death and resurrection. And then Jesus continued with these words: "The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it" Matthew 12:41.
With this, Jesus was implying the seriousness of the sin of those who persecuted him. Nineveh was the capital of the Assyrian empire, an empire famous for its cruelty, which was converted by the preaching of Jonah. With this, Jesus was making it clear that indifference or lukewarmness could not be tolerated in the face of his message; the Kingdom of God ultimately implied, from its proclamation, a fundamental choice: men must choose between being friends or enemies of God.

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