Shouldn't I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can't discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?"
II. Both Jonah and Jesus gave themselves up to death for the purpose of saving others.  The analogy fails to hold, absolutely, in the characters of the two men, since Jesus was altogether and totally innocent, and Jonah's life was marked by disobediences and imperfections.  Nevertheless, in the case of Jonah, despite his previous rebellion, his running away from the Lord, and his repudiation of plain duty, in the last analysis, when others were threatened with eminent and impending death because of his sin, he unselfishly stepped forward, accepted the blame, freely gave himself up to death in order to save them whom he had endangered.  Where in all the records of human deeds is there a better example of a mere man giving himself up to die on behalf of others?  He is therefore in this event a noble type of the Son of God Himself, despite his humanity having been marred by the common frailties of all men.