Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish's belly.
Its brevity.  One of the startling things about this remarkable utterance on the part of Jonah is the brevity of it, being easily read in less than sixty seconds!  Hillis thought this suggested that Jonah "did not live long inside the fish."[11]  There is no certain way by which this question may be dogmatically resolved; and we shall leave it open.  Many, along with Banks, have observed that, "Conservative Bible scholars believe that he died and point out that this best typifies what happened to Christ."[12]