READ AGAIN: Jonah 4

1. If Jonah had ended in chapter 3, what would you say the big takeaway of the book have been?
2. God had relented. Nineveh had been spared. To Jonah, this seemed a great evil (v1) Has there ever been a time in your life in which You questioned God’s goodness?
3. Jonah speaks in verse 2 and gives the biggest reason for his fleeing in the first place. What was it?
4. Who is worthy of God’s mercy? Who is unworthy?
5. Jonah knows who God is in a intellectual sense. How does the second part of verse 2 reveal that He doesn’t know God in a deeper and more relational way?
6. After all that Jonah has done, he asks God to take his life away. (v.3) How is it that God is still so gentle with Jonah in verse 4?
7. What does verse 5 tell you about Jonah?
8. Over and over the book of Jonah says that God provided. The fish, the tree, the worm, the scorching wind. What does this aspect of the story tell you about God?
9. What did God want Jonah to see with the tree and the worm?
10. Why do you think the book of Jonah ends on a cliff-hanger?
11. Think through some of the connections between Jonah and Jesus. How does Jesus serve as the “better Jonah?”
12. In the book of Matthew, Jesus says that “The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgement and condemn the people living in this generation…” What do you think Jesus’ point was in saying this? (cf. Matt. 12:41)