* God told Jonah to go to the great city of Nineveh to preach, but Jonah didn't want to
    go.  He tried to run away from God by going in the opposite direction.

 * He got on a ship.  God caused a storm to come.   It nearly sank the ship.  When
    the men on the ship discovered that it was Jonah's fault, they threw him overboard
    into the sea, and the sea became calm.

 * God had provided a large fish that swallowed Jonah.  Jonah prayed to God from inside
    the fish and God heard him.  He was in the fish for three days and three nights.  The
    fish spit him out onto dry land.

 * God again told him to go and preach to the people of Nineveh, and this time he obeyed.
    It was a very large city.  Jonah told the people that they  must repent or they would be
    destroyed.  The people listened  and believed.  They were sorry for their sins and God
    forgave them.

 * Jonah was angry.  He didn't really care about the people of the city, but God loved them.

 * When Jesus was on earth, he talked about Jonah in Matthew 12: 39.  He compares
    Jonah's experience to his being in the grave for three days and three nights.

  You can read the story of Jonah in the book of Jonah chapters 1-4
 

From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the Lord his God, He said, 
"In my distress I called to the Lord, and he answered me."

                 Jonah 2:1-2