The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least.
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Jesus treats Nineveh's repentance as historical and so real that its citizens will rise in judgment on unbelieving generations.
“The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.”