The book of Jonah
Matthew 12:40 (ESV)
“For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”
Jonah 1:1-2 (ESV)
“Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah… saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.”
Jonah 1:3 (ESV)
“But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the Lord.”
Jonah 1:4 (ESV)
“the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea”
Jonah 1:5 (NIV)
“Jonah had gone down into the inner part of the ship and had lain down and was fast asleep.”
Jonah 1:9-10 (ESV)
“I am a Hebrew, and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.” Then the men were exceedingly afraid and said to him, “What is this that you have done!” For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them.”
Jonah 1:11-12 (ESV)
“What shall we do to you, that the sea may quiet down for us?” For the sea grew more and more tempestuous. He said to them, “Pick me up and hurl me into the sea; then the sea will quiet down for you, for I know it is because of me that this great tempest has come upon you.”
Jonah 1:15 (ESV)
“So they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging.”
Jonah 1:17a (ESV)
“the Lord appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah.”
Jonah 1:17b (ESV)
“And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.”
Jonah 2:6 (ESV)
“you brought up my life from the pit,
O Lord my God.”
Jonah 2:7-9 (ESV)
“When my life was fainting away,
I remembered the Lord,
and my prayer came to you…what I have vowed I will pay.
Salvation belongs to the Lord!”
Jonah 2:10 (ESV)
“the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land”
Jonah 3:1-3 (ESV)
“Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.” So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh”
Jonah 3:4 (ESV)
“Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”
Jonah 3:8 (ESV)
“Let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands”
Jonah 3:10 (ESV)
“When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.”
Acts 3:19-20 (ESV)
“Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord”
1 John 1:9 (NIV)
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.”
Jonah 4:2-4 (ESV)
“O Lord, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster.Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.” And the Lord said, “Do you do well to be angry?”
Jonah 4:8 (ESV)
“It is better for me to die than to live.”
Jonah 4:10 (NLT)
“Then the Lord said, “You feel sorry about the plant, though you did nothing to put it there. It came quickly and died quickly. But Nineveh has more than 120,000 people living in spiritual darkness, not to mention all the animals. Shouldn’t I feel sorry for such a great city?”
