The "sign of Jonah" = the BAPTISM IN SHEOL

[Giuseppe]

Mark doesn't mention the sign of Jonah but Matthew does:

Matthew 12:38-39

38 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees told Jesus, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”

39 But he replied to them, “An evil and adulterous generation craves a sign. Yet no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah

Greek σημεῖον sounds similar to jewish Shimon of Jonas = Simon bar Jonas = Simon Bariona , alias:

Simon the Zealot, Simon the Sicarius, and Simon Sicarius

So the sign is the War. This betrayes typical marcionite irony: the Jews reject the Good God therefore they deserve the War.

[Giuseppe]

bullshit.

[Giuseppe]

I have a new interpretation:

the "only sign given to this generation" is not a miracle, because Jesus did a lot of miracles.

It is the baptism. Since Jonas was immersed in the waters and then he resurrected.

Osiris was immersed in the waters of Nilo for 3 days and 3 nights before his resurrection: that was his "sign".

Hence the baptism originally was connected with the Death and the idea of resurrection.

No wonder that I think that the original baptism was given to Jesus in Sheol.



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Tertullian (Apologeticum 42) received the baptism only after his death.

Originallly, the baptism was given to the corpses of Christians. Not to Christians in life.

This is 100% expected if Jesus was baptized when he was in Sheol, too.