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How Jonah Points to Jesus

September 3, 2025 By Peter Krol

Joanna Kimbrel lists and explains four ways the book of Jonah points ahead to Jesus.

  1. Obedience to the call
  2. Cast down to death
  3. Three days in the deep
  4. Messengers of mercy

The story of Jonah is more than a Sunday school tale about a big fish—it’s a shadow of the Savior to come. Jesus is the true and better Jonah. In every act of disobedience and deliverance, resistance and redemption, Jonah points us to Jesus: the obedient Son, the sovereign Lord, the risen Savior, and the merciful Redeemer.

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