being cast into the depths of Sheol and yet brought up alive is an illustration of the death of the Messiah for sins not His own and of the Messiah’s resurrection.”2 In spite of all the difficulties alluded to previously, we must give the book of Jonah a Christian reading. Jonah, first and foremost, plain and simple, has this most important message for the Christian church today: Christ, the risen One who is greater than Jonah, brings salvation through judgment and mercy to his people, those inside