The Strangeness of Jonah's Five Word Sermon

Jonah's five word sermon is one of the most intriguing parts of the whole book, says David Perry. There are two ways people have understood the strangeness of Jonah's five-word sermon: One could be this is another kind of extreme, crazy comic element in the story,. It could be that Jonah is engaging in a bit of prophetic sabotage and we'll talk more about it next week. We don't have time to go into these layers of irony and so on in his sermon right now.