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The more you understand the bible, the more you notice something fishy about the Jonah story.

Both Jesus and Jonah were sent on a mission to preach a message of repentance and salvation to the lost. Jesus obeyed. Jonah ran the other way (shellfishly).

Both Jesus and Jonah were asleep on their boat during a whale of a storm, and had to be woken up.

Both Jesus and Jonah faced the storm to save others. Jesus simply spoke to the storm. Jonah went a little overboard and sacrificed his life.

Both Jesus and Jonah descended into death, to rise again on the third day.

Jesus pacifically refers to himself as the greater Jonah, noting that “as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” (Matthew 12:40) 

Like many Old Testament stories, the story of Jonah foreshadows the story of Jesus – 800 years before Jesus lived.

And Jesus referred to Himself as the greater Jonah. 

Matthew 12:38-41

Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the law said to him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”

He answered, “A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now something greater than Jonah is here.