The Gospel of John opens like a thunderclap, framing Jesus not as merely a teacher or miracle worker but as the eternal Word who was with God and is God. That starting point alters everything about how we read the rest of the narrative, because it means we are not
The story of Jonah chapter 4 is less a tale about a prophet and more a mirror held to the human heart. The moment Nineveh turns, Jonah doesn’t rejoice; he burns with anger. That reaction is jarring because it contradicts the neat arc we expect in a redemption story:
The story of Jonah chapter three is short, sharp, and so surprising that it disarms even seasoned readers. A reluctant prophet walks into an enemy capital with a sentence of doom, and instead of a riot, he sparks a revival. The city is Nineveh, the Assyrian powerhouse feared and hated
Jonah chapter two reads like a diary from the depths: water closing overhead, seaweed tangling around a prophet’s face, and a mind racing between regret and resolve. The passage captures a visceral turn from self-direction to surrender, not as a neat moral but as a lived emergency in real