The Sign of Jonah

The first witnesses are women to begin with because Josephus first century Jewish historian tells us that normally testimony wasn't taken from women. Jesus identifies himself as a new Jonah, which means not just will he rise from the dead, but Gentiles are going to repent and come to believe in the God of Israel. I don't think we fully realize how strange that would have sounded in the ancient world. Every people had their own God, right? Or their own God's plural. And you didn't worship another nation's gods. This didn't happen.