“Then they said to him, “What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us?” For the sea grew more and more stormy.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Jonah 1 contains 17 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.