Exploring Biblical Interpretation with Sacred Art
Learning Goals
Learning Goals
To foreshadow is to show, warn, or indicate a future event before it happens.
An important way to read the Bible is to look for all the ways that something in the Old Testament foreshadows something in the New Testament.
Biblical Touchstones
Biblical Touchstones
But the LORD sent a great fish to swallow Jonah, and he remained in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
But the LORD sent a great fish to swallow Jonah, and he remained in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
JONAH 2:1
JONAH 2:1
Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.” He said to them in reply, “An evil and unfaithful generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah the prophet. Just as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.”
Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.” He said to them in reply, “An evil and unfaithful generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah the prophet. Just as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.”
MATTHEW 12:38-40
MATTHEW 12:38-40