“I cried out to the LORD because of my affliction, And He answered me. “Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, And You heard my voice.” Jonah 2:2 . “Jonah called on God in his affliction and was rewarded by an immediate response because he saw himself arising not only from the whale’s belly but from the depth of Hades with the Crucified Jesus Christ! At this point Jonah uses the past tense, “He answered me… You heard my voice”. A confident manner of speaking which has no doubt.” Father Tadros Yacoub Malaty