Charles Spurgeon Commentary Jonah 3:4

"And Jonah began to enter into the city a day`s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown." — Jonah 3:4 (ASV)

His message was short and sharp; there was not a word of mercy in it. There was nothing to distract the attention of the hearers from the one point and the one subject; and there is a great deal in that.

We may sometimes say too much in a single sermon, and give our hearers a field of wheat instead of a loaf of bread. But Jonah said what he was commanded to say, no more and no less: Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.