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Then said they to him, "What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us?" For the sea grew more and more tempestuous.
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A Question of Reverence
Commentators note the sailors' remarkable restraint. Despite knowing Jonah is the cause of their deadly peril, they don't act rashly. Instead, they ask the prophet for God's prescribed solution. Scholars like Calvin see this as a sign of their newfound fear of the Lord, demonstrating that an encounter with God's power can lead even non-believers to seek His will, not just their own escape.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
What shall we do to you? - They knew him to be a prophet; they ask him the mind of his God. The lots had marked out Jonah as the ca…
19th Century
Anglican
What shall we.— The prophet would of course know how to appease the God he had displeased.
May be calm …
Baptist
For the sea wrought, and was tempestuous. And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you:…
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16th Century
Protestant
The sailors asked counsel of Jonah, and from this it appears that they were so overcome with fear that they did not dare to do anything to him. Fro…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then said they unto him, what shall we do unto thee Though, both by the lot and his own confession, they knew he was…
Jonah gave an account of his religion, for that was his duty. We may hope that he told it with sorrow and shame, justifying God, condemning himself…
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