Footnote

a Jonah’s origin in a Galilean town is noteworthy because when referring to Jesus, the Pharisees arrogantly said: “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 had ever arisen or ever could arise out of lowly Galilee. If so, those men were ignoring history as well as prophecy.​—Isa. 9:1, 2.