about Jonah but about his everlasting love for lost and suffering humanity (4:10–11). The drama is thereby heightened, rather than diminished. What seemed to be an anti-climax is actually a most finely focused climax of incomparable dramatic power. The juxtaposition of the anger of Jonah and the abounding love of God brings together the ugliness of sin and the loveliness of the Saviour and sets them in the context of an unparalleled (for the Old Testament period) outpouring of God’s free, sovereign