Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are

hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it.

Hey everyone, welcome back to a year in the Bible. I am Beth, and I am here with my co-host, Alexa.

Hi, friends, this week we have looked at Jonah 117 and Matthew 1240, and now we want to connect

those passages together into Christ. Yes. So, Alexa, can you help us see those connections?

Yeah, Matthew 1240 plainly gives us that connection between Jonah and Jesus as Jonah spends three

days in the belly of the fish and Jonah spends three days in the belly of the

fish and Jesus spends three days in the grave before his resurrection. But there is more we can

say about the connections happening here. One greater connection is that Jesus is the true

and better Jonah. Unlike Jonah, Jesus didn't disobey God by running away from death. He obeyed God by embracing

death on the cross, trusting in God's plan of redemption that would be accomplished through his death.

And also thinking about Jonah's response later on in Jonah, Jonah is displeased by God's mercy.

Jesus acts differently from Jonah in that Jesus desire to show sinners mercy and he wanted them to

receive mercy in the place of judgment even if it was undeserved. He desired to show sinners this

mercy so much that he willingly died for them, giving those who trusted in him deliverance from

their sin. Wow, I love that. Yeah, I don't know if I've ever spent this much time thinking about

how Jesus fulfills all that Jonah was sent to do. That's really, really cool. Can you tell us a little

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