The great miraculous sign of Jonah is NOT that he SURVIVED three days and three nights in the “belly of the whale.” It’s that after being stone-cold dead for that long, God brought him out of the state of the dead, put life back in his body, and had the whale spit him back on to the earth, and let him accomplish the mission He gave him to preach to the Gentiles in the Assyrian capital of Nineveh. This should NOT come as a surprise to anyone.