but in the bible, the whale was definitely trying to tell Jonah something. God tells Jonah to let the city of Nineveh know that God will destroy it for its sinfulness. Jonah doesn’t want to ...

Our Lord thus applied the passage to himself. “As Jonah 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 ...

In the minds of many, this detail results in a contradiction in the Bible. It draws an equivalence between the time Jonah spent in the belly of the great fish and the time Jesus spent in the heart ...

Sometimes when I read the Bible, I can see a parallel between things ... For example, at my church we recently finished a study of Jonah. I’m sure many of you are familiar with his story.

Jonah is a far rarer image ... “sea monster” or “sea dragon”; not until the Bible was translated into English did it become a whale. Contact us at [email protected] ...