So what did this visiting speaker proclaim? “Jonah began by going a day’s journey into the city, proclaiming, ‘Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.’” (Jonah 3 v 4) It is very unlikely that this is all he said. After all, Jesus later says that Jonah’s survival in a fish was a sign to Nineveh in the same way that Jesus’ resurrection is a sign for us today. So presumably Jonah had to explain his experience of the Lord’s deliverance (perhaps illustrated by some very strange burns on his skin from the stomach acid of the fish) just as we must explain the evidence for the resurrection of
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