Hey, everybody. I'm Tim Mackie, and this is my podcast, exploring my strange Bible. I am a card-carrying

Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you

have. On this podcast, I'm putting together the last 20 years worth of lectures and sermons where I've

been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites us into the mission

of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can all be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts and classes about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find all those resources at Bibleproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this week.

All right, we're diving into part four of five in this series exploring the book of Jonah. This is a teaching series I did back in 2013 when I was a teaching pastor at Door of Hope.

If you haven't listened to parts one through three of this series in the previous podcast,

I'd recommend you doing that.

In this teaching, we're diving into Jonah, chapter three, which is the story of Jonah going

very much against his own desires to the city of his ancient enemies, Nineveh, uttering a very

strange five-word sermon at which the people of Nineveh, his great enemies, have a surprising

response. That's a story that explores the meaning of the biblical word repentance, what it does

mean, what it doesn't mean, and a whole bunch of

other things besides.

I hope this is helpful for you.

Let's dive in.

We are cruising along week, week four of our rescue effort, the book of Jonah. So remember, we're

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