Nineveh

A prophet commissioned to preach mercy to Israel's enemy flees instead, is pursued and delivered by the God whose mercy he resents, and is angrier at Nineveh's repentance than he ever was at his own storm. The descent, the deliverance, the mirrored commissions, and the sign Jesus gave His generation.

The sequel to Jonah: the city that repented is judged a century and a half later. God who is slow to anger and will not at all acquit the wicked, the siege of Nineveh in the most kinetic battle poetry in the Twelve, and the comfort promised to the oppressed — a stronghold in the day of trouble.

Asked for a sign, Jesus gives exactly one: Jonah's own three days and three nights, pointing forward to His own three days in the heart of the earth — and a second edge: a greater than Jonah is here, and this generation will not repent even at the greater sign.