The sailors’ efforts were to no avail. The captain wanted to try one last resort. Perhaps the passenger Jonah knew a god who had not yet been prayed to. “Get up and call on your god! Maybe he will take notice of us, and we will not perish.” Let us not overlook the captain’s opening words, “How can you sleep?” He had to go down into the hold belowdecks to wake up a sleeping Jonah. Asleep during a raging, howling storm at sea, with the waves pounding and breaking over the battered ship! How could Jonah