Jonah+and+the+Whale

//**JONAH AND THE WHALE**//



__**Summary: **__ Jonah and the Whale is a biblical passage in which the prophet Jonah is ordered to mend the evil ways of the people in Nineveh. However, Jonah goes against God's will, fleeing from the city on a ship. But God gets angry and creates a storm in the seas. The people on the boat blame the storm on Jonah and throw him overboard. God then orders a "big fish", which in most biblical stories is a whale, to swallow Jonah. Jonah then lives inside the whale for three days before God tells the whale to spit him out onto land. God calls again on Jonah to help the people of Nineveh, and this time Jonah agrees. He goes to Nineveh, scaring the townspeople to modify their evil ways with his prophecy, causing God to give them salvation. This mercy causes Jonah to get mad and once again flee the city, waiting to see what will happen. The following morning, God makes a plant to shade Jonah, but then orders a worm to destroy it. He compares the worry Jonah gives towards the plant to the lack of care or concern he showed for the city.



__**Interpretation:**__ This story is interpreted in different ways, but one states that this story teaches a lesson about the comparison of perspectives between God and the prophet Jonah. In this story, God has concerns for the universe and tries to deal with them all, while Jonah has concern for less things which causes him to have a smaller mindset about what helping involves and how it should be done.