Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 212
? 205 would have refused to believe, treating the claim as a lie and a falsehood. The Messiah's likeness, therefore, to Prophet Jonah could have been complete only when he would enter the tomb alive, stay in the tomb alive and come out of it alive, like Prophet Jonah and after the incident of the Cross successfully preach to a part of the Israelites. But the New Testament informs us that the Messiah showed to the people the sign that Jonah did not, and did not show them the sign that Jonah did. The New Testament says that the Messiah showed to the people the sign of entering the tomb, of staying therein and of coming out of it. The Bible says that the sign that Jonah showed the Ninevites was that after coming out of the fish's belly, he preached and the inhabitants of Nineveh had to believe in him. The New Testament, however, says that the Messiah simply vanished away after he rose from the tomb and did no preaching. Evidently, therefore, the sign that Jonah showed and which was a substantial sign, the Messiah did not show, but the one he did not show, the Messiah did. CROSS CANCELS JONAS'S SIGN Again, the Old Testament says that Jonah entered the fish's belly alive, stayed there alive and came out of it alive but the Christians aver that the Messiah entered the grave while dead, remained therein three days