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21st SEPTEMBER: JONAH THE PROPHET

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1. Jonah is the fifth of the Minor Prophets.
Apart from the book traditionally ascribed to him, Jonah is mentioned once in the Old Testament: 2 Kings 14:25.
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2. In the book which bears his name, in the opening verse it is stated that "the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amathi, saying: Arise and go to Ninive, the great city, and preach in it: for the wickedness thereof is come up before me."

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3. But the Prophet tries to escape the task assigned to him. He boards a ship bound for that port, but a violent storm overtakes him, and on his admission that he is the cause of it, he is cast overboard.

He is swallowed by a great fish and after a three day’s sojourn
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4. in the belly of the monster he is cast upon dry land.

After this episode he again receives the command to preach in Ninive. He proceeds to Ninive and enters "after a day’s journey" into it, foretelling its destruction in forty days.

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5. A general repentance is immediately commanded by the authorities, in view of which God relents and spares the wicked city.

[In the Gospels], the Jews asked a "sign" - a miracle to prove the Messiahship of Jesus. He made answer that no "sign" would be given them other than

6. the "sign" of Jonah the Prophet. For as Jonah was in the whale's belly three days and three nights: so shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

The men of Ninive shall rise in judgment with this generation

7. and shall condemn it: because they did penance at the preaching of Jonah. And behold a greater than Jonah here (Matthew 12:40-1; 16:4; Luke 11:29-32).
(Excerpts from Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913)