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The closest to the story being real is a whale hunter who was said to have been swallowed by a whale and cut out of the stomach to survive; it could only have been for a few seconds. Of course, a whale isn't a fish.

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Jonah was swallowed by a fish as he failed to listen to God, and he ran in the opposite direction. As nhe sailed from Joppa [modern Jaffa] located on the coast of Israel opposite Jerusalem and tried to go to Tarshish [probably modern Spain] it means he was swallowed somewhere in the Mediterranean.

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No miracle of Scripture has called forth so much unbelief. The issue is not between the doubter and this ancient record, but between the doubter and the Lord Jesus Christ. Mat 12:39, 40 Science, "falsely so called" 1Ti 6:20 failing to take account of the fact that it deals only with the outward phenomena of a fallen race, and of an earth under a curse Gen 3:17-19 is intolerant of miracles. To faith, and to true science, miracle is what might be expected of divine love, interposing God in a physically and morally disordered universe. Rom 8:19-23

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