of Zebulun, and it probably lay a few miles north of Nazareth. Jonah was the only Old Testament prophet we know about from Galilee (John 7:52), and he is the only Old Testament prophet to whom Jesus compares himself and his ministry (Matt. 12:39–41; Luke 11:29–32; see on 1:17). In the book of Jonah, however, it is not to his own nation that the prophet has to deliver his message—at least that is how it appears initially. We do have to remember that he wrote this book for them, so what he was doing
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