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A Cross-Reference Quiz: Jonah

Updated: Apr 29, 2023


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QUIZ


1. In Hebrew, the name “Jonah” means:


a) Whale

b) Lion

c) Tortoise

d) Dove


Cross-Reference:

And when Jesus was baptized, He went up at once out of the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and he [John] saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on [Jesus] (Matthew 3:16, AMPC).


2. The Lord came to Jonah, and said “Arise, go to ____________.”


a) Jerusalem

b) New York City

c) Nineveh

d) Tarshish


Cross-Reference:

Jesus says to His disciples, “Go then and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit…” (Matthew 28:19, AMPC).


3. Tarshish is about 2,500 miles due __________ of Nineveh.


a) North

b) South

c) East

d) West


Cross-Reference:

As far as the east is from the west, so far has [God] removed our transgressions from us (Psalm 103:12, NIV).


4. Due to Jonah’s disobedience to the Lord’s directive, God hurled a great storm against the _______, and the crew tossed Jonah overboard.


a) Land

b) Whale

c) Ship

d) Temple


Cross-Reference:

[Jesus] and His disciples got into a boat, and He said to them, Let us go across to the other side of the lake. So they put out to sea. But as they were sailing…a whirlwind revolving from below upwards swept down on the lake, and the boat was filling with water, and they were in great danger. And the disciples came and woke Him, saying, Master, Master, we are perishing (Luke 8:22-24, AMPC)!


5. The Lord appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly for _______ days and ________ nights.


a) Forty

b) Seven

c) Three

d) One Hundred


Cross-Reference:

The Son of Man must…suffer many things and be tested and disapproved and rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and be put to death, and after three days rise again [from death] (Mark 8:2, AMPC).


6. Jonah was pressed to the near extinction of his life. A band of __________ was wrapped around his head. Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the fish’s _______. God spoke…and the fish spewed Jonah onto dry land.


a) Thorns; Back

b) Gold; Fin

c) Cloth; Nose

d) Seaweed; Belly


Cross-Reference:

And weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on [Jesus’] head. And about the ninth hour (three o’clock) Jesus cried with a loud voice, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?—that is, My God, My God, why have You abandoned Me..?

Jesus cried again with a loud voice and gave up His spirit.

And at once the curtain of the sanctuary of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; the earth shook and the rocks were split. The tombs were opened and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep in death were raised [to life].

Now after the Sabbath, near dawn of the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala and the other Mary went to take a look at the tomb. But the angel said to the women, Do not be alarmed and frightened, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, Who was crucified.

He is not here; He has risen, as He said [He would do]. Go quickly and tell His disciples, He has risen from the dead, and behold, He is going before you to Galilee; there you will see Him (Matthew 27:29, 50-52; 28:1, 5-7, AMPC).


7. And the Lord commissioned Jonah a second time: Go to Nineveh and __________: “Yet ________ days and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”


a) Dance; three

b) Preach; forty

c) Pout; one hundred

d) Hide; forty


Cross-Reference:

Jesus read: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He anointed Me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim release to captives, And recovery of sight to the blind, To set free those who are oppressed, To proclaim the favorable year of the Lord” (Luke 4:18-19, NASB).


8. And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way…[and God spared Nineveh] in which there are more than _____________ persons… (Jonah 3:10; 4:11, AMPC).


a) Three

b) 80,000

c) Seventy-seven

d) 120,000


Cross-Reference:

And [Peter]…witnessed (testified) and admonished (exhorted) with much more continuous speaking and warned…them, saying, Be saved from this crooked (perverse, wicked, unjust) generation.

Therefore those who accepted and welcomed his message were baptized, and there were added that day [to God’s Kingdom] about 3,000 souls (Acts 2:40-41).


 

MESSAGE


God used Jonah’s eight-word sermon to save 120,000 souls.

But first, Jonah ran in the opposite direction.

God used Peter, who had previously denied Christ, to save 3,000 souls with one message.

God can use you.


___________



Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Him,

“Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.”

But He answered and said to them,

“An evil and adulterous generation craves a sign;

and so no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet;

for just as Jonah was in the stomach of the sea monster for three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.”

Matthew 12:38-40, NASB


BIBLE TRANSLATIONS


Scripture quotations taken from the Amplified® Bible (AMPC), Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. lockman.org


New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved.


Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.


ANSWER KEY

1. d) Dove

2. c) Nineveh

3. d) West

4. c) Ship

5. c) Three

6. d) Seaweed; Belly

7. b) Preach; forty

8. d) 120,000



















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