The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
"God delights to do the impossible, and never more so than in turning men to Himself. Instead, then, of denying on the grounds of its ’human’ impossibility the repentance that swept over Nineveh, let us see it as an evidence of divine power. For this, not the episode of the sea monster, is the greatest miracle in the book." [Note: Gaebelein, p. 103.] 