God’s relentless compassion for Nineveh confuses Jonah. But God’s relentless compassion for Jonah can redeem him. Ultimately, Jesus became God’s prophet to a hostile people and endured harshness that Jonah imagined, but was spared from experiencing. Jonah’s story ends with a question, leaving it up to us to answer, “Will I show the same compassion for others that God has shown to me?”