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He Learned From His MistakesThe Watchtower—2009 | January 1
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At 2 Kings 14:25, we learn a little about Jonah’s background. He was from Gath-hepher, just two and a half miles [4 km] from Nazareth, the town where Jesus Christ would grow up some eight centuries later.a
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He Learned From His MistakesThe Watchtower—2009 | January 1
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a Jonah’s origin in a Galilean town is noteworthy because the Pharisees arrogantly said about Jesus: “Search and see that no prophet is to be raised up out of Galilee.” (John 7:52) Many translators and researchers suggest that the Pharisees were making a sweeping generalization that no prophet ever has arisen or ever does arise out of lowly Galilee. If so, those men were ignoring history as well as prophecy.—Isaiah 9:1, 2.
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