does anyone know of a bible verse to go with the story of Jonah??

Question

please, only serious answers. Thanks. <><

what I mean was a short, inspirational, verse that would go well with the story. One that centers around the theme of the story. There wasn't a good verse in the actual story.

Answer 1

Luke 11,30; Matthew 4,25.

Answer 2

There is a good verse in the story, the one right at the end, which sums up the main point of the book. It is where Jonah is angry at God not destroying the wicked city, and God is trying to get Jonah to see things from his point of view. The punch line of the book is "should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?" (4:11).

We often want justice when we are the victims of the sins of others, but when we are the sinners we then want mercy. God is a lot more merciful and longsuffering than us humans and he allows sinners a lot more time to repent and is a lot more reluctant to punish them then we would like.

See also Luke 9:54-55 where Jesus tells off some disciples who get angry at a Samaritan village and want to nuke it.

Or all those verses where Jesus says to love your enemies or "Father forgive them for they know not what they do". God is always seeking excuses not to have to destroy sinners.

Answer 3

Did It Swallow Jonah?

THE Bible tells us that Jonah, a prophet of Jehovah in the ninth century B.C.E., fleeing an assignment, boarded a ship. During the stormy voyage in the Mediterranean, the crew hurled him overboard. “Jehovah appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, so that Jonah came to be in the inward parts of the fish three days and three nights.”—Jonah 1:3-17.

Some say, ‘Impossible! No creature in the sea could swallow a man.’ But either a sperm whale or a great white shark could. National Geographic (December 1992) offered another possibility—the whale shark. The largest known shark, it can grow to 70 feet [20 m] in length and weigh 70 tons.

“The whale shark’s unusual digestive anatomy lends itself to Jonah stories. It is easy to imagine yourself being inadvertently sucked into a whale shark’s mouth, which is huge . . . The cavernous mouth of even a small adult whale shark could easily accommodate a pair of Jonahs.”

The whale shark feeds on tiny plankton and krill, which “wash down through the esophagus into the immense and elastic banquet hall that is the cardiac stomach.” Yet, how could anyone get out? National Geographic says: “Sharks have a nonviolent way of getting rid of large objects of dubious digestibility they swallow . . . A shark can slowly empty its cardiac stomach by turning it inside out and pushing it through the mouth. . . . So, you could come gliding out on a mucus-covered carpet, slimier but perhaps wiser for the experience.”

Today whale sharks are not found in the Mediterranean, though they have been found as far north as New York City. Were they present in the Mediterranean in Jonah’s time? Who can say? The Bible does not specify what kind of sea creature Jehovah used, but Jesus himself confirmed that the account of Jonah is true.—Matthew 12:39, 40.

Answer 4

How about a whole lot of Bible verses? The whole book of Jonah?? And, of course, New Testament references to Jonah.

Answer 5

"An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For 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" (Mt 12:40)

Answer 6

read the chapter of jonah in the Bible

also matthew 12:38-42; 16:4 and the parallel account in luke speaks about jonah

does that answer your question?

Answer 7

-Sent by God to warn the city of Nineveh,
(Jnh.1:1-2.
1 The word of the LORD came to Jonah son of Amittai:
2 "Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me." )

-Disobedience and punishment of,
(Jnh.1:3-17.
3 But Jonah ran away from the LORD and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the LORD.
4 Then the LORD sent a great wind on the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship threatened to break up.
5 All the sailors were afraid and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the cargo into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone below deck, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep.
6 The captain went to him and said, "How can you sleep? Get up and call on your god! Maybe he will take notice of us, and we will not perish."
7 Then the sailors said to each other, "Come, let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity." They cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah.
8 So they asked him, "Tell us, who is responsible for making all this trouble for us? What do you do? Where do you come from? What is your country? From what people are you?"
9 He answered, "I am a Hebrew and I worship the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the land."
10 This terrified them and they asked, "What have you done?" (They knew he was running away from the LORD, because he had already told them so.)
11 The sea was getting rougher and rougher. So they asked him, "What should we do to you to make the sea calm down for us?"
12 "Pick me up and throw me into the sea," he replied, "and it will become calm. I know that it is my fault that this great storm has come upon you."
13 Instead, the men did their best to row back to land. But they could not, for the sea grew even wilder than before.
14 Then they cried to the LORD, "O LORD, please do not let us die for taking this man's life. Do not hold us accountable for killing an innocent man, for you, O LORD, have done as you pleased."
15 Then they took Jonah and threw him overboard, and the raging sea grew calm.
16 At this the men greatly feared the LORD, and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows to him.
17 But the LORD provided a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was inside the fish three days and three nights. )

-Repentance and deliverance of,
({See Jnh.2}

Matt.12:40. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. )

Answer 8

Matthew 12:40 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.

Answer 9

Becuase think that the story of Jonah is a lesson on evangelization, I would relate a New Testament verse like the Great commission command to it: "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age”(Matt. 28:19, 20 ).

Why?

Well, the story of Jonah is like an extended metaphor. Jonah, whose name means “dove” represents Israel who, in disobedience to God’s will that it should be a ‘light’ and blessing to all nations, refuses to share the truth of God to the Gentiles (unbelievers). As discipline, God allows a great fish to swallow Jonah-Israel (a metaphor for the Exile). Upon repentance, Jonah-Israel is disgorged from the belly of the fish (symbolic of the post-exilic restoration back to the land of Judah).

So, the question is put to us: what kind of Christian are we to be?

There are two kinds of religiosity that exists among the post-exilic Jews, and among Christians today. The first kind of ‘religiosity’ among God’s people is the kind that although it
is sincere and devout, its members gain their strength and pride from the thought that they are the minority. Like Jonah, they are shocked, nay, displeased , to learn that God truly cares about those others who have no relationship with Him, and in
their way of thinking, deserve only His wrath. The other type of religion which the book of Jonah urgently invites us all to adopt is the imitation of God’s own heart toward those who are outside the community of faith, are ignorant of His will and character, and in danger of His judgment. The message of the book of Jonah contains implications that called Israel, the chosen people of God, to examine their form of religiosity, as it calls each one of us in the New Testament Church, to examine our own.

Will we be the type of Christian who will extend and share the light of God to the world of unbeleivers? Will we obey Christ's command to "Go and make disciples...."? Will we share the light we were entrusted with to those sitting in darkness?

Answer 10

God gave this story it's own book...the book of Jonah. Check it out...