{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/sco/jon000.htm","path":"bib/cmt/sco/jon000.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/sco/jon000.htm","text":"The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917]\nBook Introduction - Jonah\nThe historical character of the man Jonah is vouched for by Jesus Christ Mat 12:39-41 as also that his preservation in the great fish was a \"sign\" or type of the Lord's own entombment and resurrection. Both are miraculous and both are equally credible. Kg2 14:25 records the fulfilment of a prophecy by Jonah. The man himself was a bigoted Jew, unwilling to testify to a Gentile city, and angry that God had spared it. Typically he foreshadows the nation of Israel out of its own land; a trouble to the Gentiles, yet witnessing to them; cast out by them, but miraculously preserved; in their future deepest distress calling upon Jehovah-Saviour, and finding deliverance, and then becoming missionaries to the Gentiles. Zac 8:7-23.\nHe typifies Christ as the Sent One, raised from the dead, and carrying salvation to the Gentiles. The chapter divisions indicate the analysis of Jonah.","title":"The Scofield Bible Commentary: Jonah: Jonah Introduction","type":"page"}