Expedient That He Dieth
In a recent podcast , Dr. John Hilton III discussed the similarities between Jonah and Jesus. The Savior Himself made the comparison: “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” (Matthew 12:40). Jesus was in the tomb three days just like Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days, and both came out alive. But there are more similarities than this one. Dr. Hilton quoted a Christian author Timothy Keller who said this: “Both Jesus and Jonah are in a boat. Both are in storms described in similar terms. Both boats are filled with others who are terrified of death. Both groups wake the sleeping prophets angrily rebuking them. Both storms are miraculously calmed and the companion saved. And both stories conclude with the men in the boats more terrified after the storm is stilled than they were before. Every feature is the same with one rather large apparent exception. Jonah is s