^{page 381 note 1} The parallel in Matthew (xii. 39) has ‘the sign of Jonah the prophet’. But it is Luke who preserves the correct form of the common source. This is clear also from what follows, for Matthew's comparison of the Son of man's three days and three nights in the heart of the earth with Jonah's sojourn in the whale's belly is secondary.

^{page 381 note 2} So rightly Rengstorf, K. H., T. W. N. T. vii, 236, lines 19–21, as against J. Schniewind, Das Evangelium nach Matthäus (1956), pp. 244 f.Google Scholar

^{page 381 note 3} Cf. Tödt, H. E., Der Menschensohn in der synoptischen Überlieferung (1959), p. 74.Google Scholar

^{page 381 note 4} Cf. Bauer-Arndt-Gingrich, , A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, etc. (1957), p. 755: ‘the sign by which one can mark the coming of the Son of Man’; the New English Bible translates, ‘the sign that heralds the Son of Man’.Google Scholar