“So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord.... And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, _Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown_.” Jonah 3:3, 4. 12. What saved the people from the predicted overthrow? “So the people of Nineveh _believed_ God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.... And God saw their works, that _they turned from their evil way_; and God repented of the evil, that He had said that He would do unto them; and He did it not.” Verses 5-10. See Jer. 18:7-10. NOTE.—So likewise would God have spared the antediluvian world had they received Noah’s message, and turned from their evil ways. 13. What was the special mission of John the Baptist? “There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, _to bear witness of the Light_, that all men through Him might believe.” John 1:6, 7. 14. What answer did he return when asked concerning his mission? “He said, _I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias_.” Verse 23. 15. What did Christ say of those who rejected John’s message? “But the Pharisees and lawyers _rejected the counsel of God against themselves_, being not baptized of him.” Luke 7:30. 16. What did those do who were baptized of John? “And all the people that heard Him, and the publicans, _justified God_, being baptized with the baptism of John.” Verse 29. NOTE.—That is, they honored God by this act, which showed their faith in His truth for that time. 17. Did God’s chosen people receive Christ when He came? “He came unto His own, and _His own received Him not_.” John 1:11. 18. What reason did they give for not receiving Him? “We know that God spake unto Moses: _as for this fellow, we know not from whence He is_.” John 9:29.