Everyone repented, everyone returned to God

[Mary Naeem]

Pope Shenouda III

Jonah

The power and beauty of this repentance is that it was a general repentance. Everyone repented, everyone returned to God, everyone believed in Him.

More than one hundred and twenty thousand persons entered the Lord's fold, one and all. If there is joy in heaven over one person's repentance what shall we say about the joy brought about by more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who previously could not discern between their right hand and their left?

Thus succeeded the second aim in God's design. The Ninevites were saved as the mariners had previously been saved.

Now it is Jonah's turn.