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Then they asked him, "Tell us, please, for whose cause this evil is on us. What is your occupation? Where do you come from? What is your country? Of what people are you?"
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Commentators note that the pagan sailors, despite their fear, question Jonah calmly and fairly. Their simple question, "Why have you done this?" becomes a sharp rebuke. Scholars like Matthew Henry and John Calvin explain that when believers act inconsistently with their faith, they should expect to be called out, even by non-believers. It's a humbling reminder that our actions are a testimony, for better or worse.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Tell us, for whose cause—Literally, “for what to whom.” It may be that they thought Jonah had been guilty toward someone else. The lot had p…
19th Century
Anglican
For whose cause ...—The Hebrew idiom is peculiar, on account of which to whom; but in this verse, when addressed by the s…
Baptist
I do not know whether these men had traded with those who then lived in these islands, but they had a very English custom of not judging a man befo…
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16th Century
Protestant
After the lot fell on Jonah, they did not doubt that he was the guilty person, any more than if he had been proven to be so a hundred times: for wh…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then they said to him, tell us, we pray you. They did not fall upon him at once in an outrageous manner, and throw him ov…
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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