And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.
Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea. Herein Jonah is a type of Messiah, the One Man who offered Himself to die, in order to allay the stormy flood of God's wrath, which otherwise must have engulfed all other men (cf. Psalms 69:1-2 as to Messiah). So Caiaphas, by the Spirit, declared it "expedient that one man should die, and that the whole nation should not perish" (John 11:50). Jonah also heroin is a specimen of true repentance, which leads the penitent to "accept of the punishment of his iniquity" (Leviticus 26:41; Leviticus 26:43), and to be more indignant at his sin than at his suffering.