(RNS) — God sending Jonah to Nineveh would be like telling a modern-day rabbi to preach in Iran or Gaza.

God sending Jonah to Nineveh would be like telling a modern-day rabbi to preach in Iran or Gaza, says Jesuit Fr. Thomas Reese.

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God sending Jonah to Nineveh would be like telling a modern-day rabbi to preach in Iran or Gaza.

Jonah 3:4 Thus, a 40-day countdown began for the people of Nineveh to repent. Nineveh's guilt was concerning the Assyria's oppression against the Jewish people, taking them into captivity to Assyria ...

Jonah’s response to God’s declaration of His mercy towards the Ninevites, “and should not I have pity on Nineveh, that great city …?” is left unanswered in the text.

After he came to, Jonah went to Nineveh, the capital city of the Assyrian empire, and preached to the people and their king. They all repented, and their city was saved.

Some sources online have also claimed there was an eclipse in Nineveh when Jonah went to preach after escaping the whale, which helped the city’s residents believe his message.

At the judgment the men of Nineveh will arise with this generation and condemn it, because at the preaching of Jonah they repented, and there is something greater than Jonah here.” (Lk 11:29-32) ...