Jonah

God instructed Jonah to preach to Nineveh, but Jonah fled, leading to a storm that subsided only after he was thrown overboard and swallowed by a great fish. Inside the fish, Jonah prayed and expressed his faith in God, who then commanded the fish to release him. Jonah obeyed God's second command and preached to Nineveh, warning of its impending destruction, but the city repented, and God spared it. Jonah was angry and wished for death, but God used a withered gourd to illustrate the inconsistency in Jonah's pity for the plant, which he had not labored to grow, and his lack of pity for the innocent people of Nineveh.