Firstly!! The word CHRIST is not a name. It is a title. It is a translation of the Hebrew word Messiah, meaning "anointed." The Greek word for "anointed" is Christos from which we get the word Christ.

as in

"Priests and kings were "anointed" when being consecrated to their office. The Holy Bible confers this title even on a heathen king CYRUS (Isaiah 45:1).

We are reminded in the Gospel of St.Luke that "WHEN EIGHT DAYS WERE ACCOMPLISHED FOR THE CIRCUMCISING OF THE CHILD, HIS NAME WAS CALLED JESUS, WHICH WAS SO NAMED OF THE ANGEL BEFORE HE WAS CONCEIVED IN THE WOMB." (Luke 2:21).

The name that was given to Mary for her yet unborn son was JESUS and NOT Christ.

It was only after his baptism at the hands of John the Baptist that he, Jesus, claimed to be the Christ. The Jews were not the ones to accept his claim on its face value. They wanted proof!

Matthew records that the learned men among the Jews - the Scribes and Pharisees - came to Jesus and asked,

"MASTER, WE WOULD SEE A SIGN FROM THEE". (Matthew 12:38)

What they really wanted was not some "magic trick," some "sleight of hand" like producing a rabbit out of a hat or a penguin. This is the type of "sign" or MIRACLE they were looking for,

NOW LET US SEE WHAT JESUS TOLD THEM ABOUT SIGN!

Jesus replies: "AN EVIL AND ADULTEROUS GENERATION SEEKETH AFTER A SIGN; AND THERE SHALL NO SIGN (no miracle) BE GIVEN TO IT, BUT THE SIGN (miracle) OF THE PROPHET JONAS: FOR AS JONAS WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE WHALE'S BELLY; SO SHALL THE SON OF MAN BE THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE HEART OF THE EARTH." (Matthew 12:39-40).

Jesus says, "NO SIGN." He does not refer the Jews to blind Bartimeus whose sight he had restored. He does not speak about the "woman with issues" who was healed by merely touching him; or about the 2000 pigs he had destroyed to heal "a man possessed;" or the 5000 and the 3000 people he had fed and satiated with a few pieces of fish and a few pieces of bread. "No sign," says Jesus, BUT ONE! - "THE SIGN OF THE PROPHET JONAS!" His claim to being the Messiah (Christ) stands or falls the ONLY "sign" he was prepared to give will prove..

Did Jesus fulfill the only sign he gave?

You will surly say Yes!

SO LET US SEE WHAT WAS THE SIGN OF JONAH??

go to the "Book of Jonah" in the Old Testament to find out.

God commanded Jonah to go to Nineveh and warn the Ninevites to repent from their "evil ways, and from the violence that is in their hands." (Jonah 3:8)

But Jonah was loath to go as a warner unto the Ninevites, so he goes to Joppa instead of Ninevah, and takes a boat to run away from the Lord's command.

While at sea, there was a terrible tempest. According to the superstition of the mariners, a person fleeing from his Master's command creates such a turmoil at sea.

They began to enquire among themselves and said, "COME, AND LET US CAST LOTS, (like the tossing of a coin, "head" or "tail") THAT WE MAY KNOW FOR WHOSE CAUSE THIS EVIL IS UPON US. SO THEY CAST LOTS, AND THE LOT FELL UPON JONAH." (Jonah 1:7).

Though here was a temporary lapse on the part of Jonah in fulfilling his mission, he manfully and most outrageously volunteers: "AND HE SAID UNTO THEM TAKE ME UP, AND CAST ME FORTH INTO THE SEA; SO SHALL THE SEA BE CALM UNTO YOU: FOR I KNOW THAT FOR MY SAKE THIS GREAT TEMPEST IS UPON YOU." (Jonah 1:12)

Since Jonah was selflessly offering himself as a "vicarious" sacrifice there was no need for strangling him before throwing him into the sea, no need to spear him or break his arm or limb.

In his own words: "TAKE ME UP AND CAST ME FORTH."

The question is, that when they threw him overboard, was Jonah dead or alive?

Any Christian child who has attended Sunday School will give an immediate reply:

"ALIVE!!!!!!"

The storm subsides. Was this perhaps a coincidence? A fish swallows Jonah. Was he dead or alive when swallowed? The answer again is

"ALIVE"

Was he dead or alive when "JONAH PRAYED UNTO THE LORD HIS GOD OUT OF THE FISH'S BELLY?" (Jonah 2:1)

Surely dead men don't cry and don't pray! The answer again is

"ALIVE"

For three days and three nights the fish takes him around the ocean: dead or alive?

"ALIVE!" is the answer.

On the third day it vomits him on the seashore: dead or alive?

A-L-I-V-E, of course!

What had Jesus prophesied about himself?

He said: " AS JONAH WAS ..... SO SHALL THE SON OF MAN BE" LIKE JONAH.

And how was Jonah?

Was he dead or alive for three days and three nights?

ALIVE!!!! ALIVE!!!! ALIVE!!!!

is the unanimous answer from the Jew, the Christian and the Muslim!

NOW MY QUSTION IS IF JESUS SAID HE WILL BE ALIVE AS JONAH WAS WHY DO CHRISTIAN PEOPLE SAY THAT HE DIED????????

I ASK PEOPLE WHY DO YOU SAY HE DIED WHEN HE DID NOT DIE AND HE DID NOT CLAIMED TO DIE??