Jonah's confession in 4:2-3 that his attitude toward Nineveh has been consistent from the beginning gives us good grounds to doubt that an altruistic motive was uppermost in Jonah's decision to go overboard.
--Daniel C. Timmer, A Gracious and Compassionate God: Mission, Salvation and Spirituality in the Book of Jonah (New Studies in Biblical Theology; Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2011), 72.
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