It’s unclear if the whale was trying to teach Simancas any sort of lesson, but in the bible, the whale was definitely trying to tell Jonah something.

It’s unclear if the whale was trying to teach Simancas any sort of lesson, but in the bible, the whale was definitely trying to tell Jonah something.

The story comprises the entire Book of Jonah, one of the 24 Books of the Bible. The story imparts a valuable life lesson and contributes significantly to the experience of Yom Kippur, the Day of ...

British poet William Ernest Henley published a short poem that expressed one way to cope with life’s circumstances.  The poem ...

God "provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights," Jonah 1:17). While people sometimes think a whale swallowed Jonah, the Bible uses ...

The principal character in this small prophecy is Jonah, son of Amittai. We read of him in 2 Kings 14:25, in which the additional information is given that he was from Gath-hepher, in the ...

Sometimes when I read the Bible, I can see a parallel between things that happened during biblical times and what is happening in our world today. For example, at my church we recently finished a ...

Jonah is a far rarer image, ... not until the Bible was translated into English did it become a whale.