Introduction
            
             Jonah was the fifth of the Minor Prophets according to the order of the bible.
             Even though Jonah was a prophet, his little book is not a prophecy. It is, instead, a
             personal account of a major event in the life of Jonah and, as the narrator, he tells us his
             experience. Conservative scholars place the writing of this book before 745 B.C His name
             means dove. It would be rash and unjust to say that there was nothing in Jonah
             corresponding to the dove. His beautiful ode, and the bitterness of his grief, as well as the
             exuberance of his joy, show at least that he was a man of the most exquisite sensibility.
             The name was given to him from his father Amittai, a native of Gathhepher, a town of
             Lower Galilee in Zebulon (2 Kings 14:25). He lived after the reign of Jehu, when the
             losses of Israel (2 Kings 10:32) began; and probably not till the latter part of the reign of
             Jeroboam II.(Lightfoot 198)
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
             Outline
            
            
             I The comparison between Jonah and Jesus
            
            
             A. Mentioned in New Testament
            
             1. Jesus' sermon using Jonah as a comparison
            
             a. Leaders forgot God's grace
            
             2. Matthew 12:40
            
             B. The "death" of both Jesus and Jonah.
            
             1. Three day disappearance from the land of the living
            
             2. Both were more or less dead
            
             a. Jonah might have been alive physically, but felt good as dead.
            
             3. Jesus did not die in defeat.
            
             a. Finished his work on the cross.
            
             C. The burial.
            
             1. Definate spot.
            
             a. Both guarded against human interference.
            
             2. Period of three days.
            
             a. Not accidental, but determined by God.
            
             3. The shadow forth the future entombment of God's son.
            
             D. The Resurrection
            
             1.Both were restored.
            
             This book in many ways shows the relationship between Jesus and Jonah, in that
             Jonah being swallowed by the whale shows relationship to Ch...