jonah is in the book of matthew of the bible.
jonah is in the book of matthew of the bible.
what book of the bible is jonah in?
matthew
jonah 1









































jonah 1 is the first chapter of the book of jonah in the hebrew bible or the old testament of the christian bible. this book contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet jonah, and is a part of the book of the twelve minor prophets.









































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the original text was written in hebrew language. this chapter is divided into 17 verses in christian bible, but 16 verses in hebrew bible with the following verse numbering comparison:









































this article generally follows the common numbering in christian english bible versions, with notes to the numbering in hebrew bible versions.
jonah 1
in the quran, jonah gets frustrated by his own people and abandons them to god's mercy, however without asking permission from god and thus going against his given responsibility. in the quran, it is also mentioned that if jonah had not prayed inside the belly of the fish he would have stayed in there until the judgement day. in the bible, jonah pays a fare to sail to tarshish. in both stories, he boards the ship loaded with passengers, lots are cast and jonah is thrown overboard and swallowed by a large fish (jonah 1:17, as-saaffat 37|142). after praying, he is cast out of the fish and washed ashore, and god causes a gourd to grow (37|146) or weeds (2:5). in the bible, jonah continues into nineveh, and the city is spared by god. in the quran, god causes the gourd to grow to comfort jonah after he lies on the shore in a sickly state (as-saaffat 37|145), in the bible the gourd plant grows up to provide shade for jonah while he waits for nineveh to be destroyed (4:6). according to an islamic tradition however, the big fish gets frightened at first, fearing it might have swallowed a holy person as it heard prayers and supplications read in a wonderful voice from her stomach, hearing which numerous sea creatures had surrounded it. but she comforts herself later since it was god's order to swallow jonah. after two days the fish casts him out the beach of an island and he is very weak. the gastric juices with the hot sunlight burned his skin till the point he was about to scream of pain. god causes a vine to grow over him and provide him fruit and shade. he recovers and goes back to his people who had become good after he left. according to the bible, ninevah was a great city, with more than one hundred twenty thousand people and much livestock (jonah 4:11). in the quran, the number of people he was sent towards as a prophet exceeded a hundred thousand. they believed in his message and god granted them prosperity for a long time. (as-saaffat 37|147–148). in the new testament, jesus refers to the ninevites repenting at the preaching of jonah (matthew 12:41, luke 11:32).
biblical and quranic narratives