I would think both parables represent the same thing
Context is everything, and I don't see them meaning the same thing at all..
One meant my words have spiritual meaning here, and the other something different entirely.
Jesus came from heaven to earth with all signs and wonders... those people saw it all, right there. They heard other's accounts. They were themselves witness.
The question posed consistently to the religious elite wasn't listen to what I say and shut up, it was, rather, "from where do you say My Authority (to give new interpretation of Scripture, to heal the sick and to forgive sin - all of which they witnessed) comes from?"
They had signs and wonders (the lame walked, the blind saw, even the dead were healed), they had it all... what they didn't have was an ability to answer that question correctly... that Jesus' authority comes from God alone.
That's what made them a wicked and adulterous in that generation, they weren't willing to believe the plain evidences before them. So beyond what they were already given, there was only one thing more, then zip - the sign of Jonah...
Today we have those very same witnesses, all in first hand accounts written by those who knew Jesus, who shared with the world those new interpretations of Scripture, who shared how to interpret the New Covenant every day since in light of the Old, who shared with us that sign of Jonah...
And today those who were once spiritually blind now see, those who once walked by sight in darkness (lame) now walk in the light and can see, those who ail from the disease of sin now overcome the disease in Christ's forgiveness, as our debt is now paid and in Christ there is no fear of the Judgement.
They saw what the miracles represented - we are more blessed to get the real thing!
But I've gone on a walk here, likely at this point away from what we were discussing in the first place... lol. (I can talk now! Haha)
They aren't the same thing. If you want to see the dead raised - look for a new convert in Christ, and the miracle in that - more miraculous than the first creation itself is the new creation.
Look for the sign of Jonah... it's all around us, and stop looking for the material thing - the material and physical is transient, the spiritual eternal in Christ. It's the only sign men need.
They may have similarities, but different applications.
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