Sunday School Lesson
Sunday Morning Bible Class December 21, 2025
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Theme:
Minor Prophets
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Jonah
Jonah 1:17-3:10
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Introduction
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Jonah's Praying
Jonah 1:17) Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was in the bellly of the fish three days and three nights.
Jonah 2:1-10-- 1) Then Jonah Prayed to the Lord his God from the fish;s belly. 2) And he said, "I cried out to the Lord because of my afflicton, And he answered me. "Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, And You heard my voice. 3) For You cast me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, And the floods surrounded me; All Your billows andYour waves passed over me. 4) Then I said, 'I have been cast out of Your sight; Yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.' 5) The waters surrounded me, even to my soul; The deep closed around me; Weeds were wraped around my head. 6) I went down to the moorings of the mountains; The earth wuth its bars closed behind me forever; Yet You have brought up my life from the pit, O Lord, my God. 7) "When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the :ord; And my prayer went up to You, Into Your holy temple. 8) "Those who regard worthless idols Forsake their own mercy. 9) But I will sacrifice to You with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay what I have vowed. Salvation is of theLord." 10) So the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.
Commentary
Jonah 1:17-2:10
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Jonah's Preching
1) Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time saying, 2) "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I tell you." 3) So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedly great city, a three-day journey in extent. 4) And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day's walk. Then he cried out and said, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!"
Jonah 3:1-4
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Ninevite Action
5) So the people of Ninveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them. 6) Then the word came to the king of Nineveh; and he arose from his throne and laid aside his robe, covered himself with sackcloth and sat in the ashes. 7) And he caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink water. 8) But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God; yes, let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence thatis in his hands. 9) Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we may not perish? 10) Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God relented from the disaster that He said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it.
Commentary
Jonah 3:5-10
II Timothy 2:15: "Be dillgent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."
