Nineveh: Take two

Jonah 2:10-3:5 - And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time: "Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you."

Jonah obeyed the word of the LORD and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very important city—a visit required three days. On the first day, Jonah started into the city. He proclaimed: "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned." The Ninevites believed God. They declared a fast, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.

I wonder where the beach was that Jonah was spit up on. Was it far from Joppa where he had started? Was it right back in Joppa that he landed? I wonder if anyone saw him come out of the fish.

I wonder if the Ninevites had heard about Jonah before he got there. Had he told his story to others who spread the news? Did that maybe help in the spreading of his real message? Not that a word from God isn't powerful enough in and of itself, but they certainly seemed ready and willing to listen to Jonah. He didn't even have to go through the whole city himself. His first hearers did a lot of secondary evangelizing for him.