Jonah 1:11-12
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Other commentaries on this verse
- John Gill - Exposition - Jonah 1
- John Gill - Exposition - Jonah 1:11
- John Gill - Exposition - Jonah 1:12
- Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Jonah 1
- Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Jonah 1:10-11
- Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Jonah 1:12-13
Jonah 1:11-12. For the sea wrought, and was tempestuous. And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you:
Notwithstanding all his faults, Jonah was an eminent type of Christ. We know that from our Lord’s own words, for he was as long in the belly of the whale as Christ was in the heart of the earth. Here he seems to be a type of our Saviour: "Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea: so shall the sea be calm unto you:"