Bible Worksheet

Who was Jonah?

• A prophet of God

• A man who liked to fish

• A disciple of Jesus

What relationship did Jonah have with God?

• God liked his hair.

• God trusted him because of where he was from.

• Jonah must have had the kind of relationship with God that allowed God to communicate directly with him.

What did God ask of Jonah?

• He asked him to baptize the people.

• God gave Jonah the important task of preaching to Nineveh to warn the people that God had seen their wickedness and that He was about to judge them.

• God told Jonah to go and a feast with them.

Why was Jonah shocked and dismayed at God’s command?

• Assyrians were ruthless and violent when they conquered their enemies. What is more, it had been prophesied that Assyria was the nation that God would use to judge His people.

• He thought he would have to marry someone from there.

• God had told him to move there to live and marry a woman from there and start a family.

What did Jonah choose to do and why?

• Jonah refused the job

• He caught a taxi boat to Jordan

• He went willingly

How did God respond? What else might God have done?

• God sent some men after Jonah to take him to the place where he was suppose to go.

• God asked Jonah to please be obedient and do what He asked him to do.

• God followed Jonah and sent along a storm to change his direction. The storm and the great fish were all part of God’s plan to teach Jonah and to prepare him for the task he had to do.

Why did God help Jonah when he did not deserve it?

• So Jonah would not be blamed by the sailors.

• God does not treat us as we deserve. He does everything possible to demonstrate His love, grace, and forgiveness. God chose to demonstrate this to Jonah to help him understand the reason He was sending him on such an errand.

• God was showing him how to be more gentle to others.

How would you describe Jonah (by the way he acted)?

• Jonah was afraid of the power and might of Nineveh. He was afraid for his life. He was afraid of what the people in Israel would think of someone who helped their enemies.

• Jonah was very excited, because he was going to God's work.

• Jonah was anxious because he was afraid of what the people of Judah would think of someone who helped their enemies.

What was the pagan sailors’ attitude toward Jonah?

• They were hostile toward him.

• They offered him a nice meal and warm bed to sleep in during his journey.

• The pagan sailors showed a kind spirit toward Jonah. They did not want him to die, so they put forth every effort to get to shore and be safe from the storm.

To Whom did the sailors pray the second time? Why do you think this was?

• They prayed to their own gods

• They prayed to Jonah’s God. They must have learned that the God of Israel could see and hear and had great power.

• They prayed to baal.