Few of us, if left to the Old Testament alone, would ever consider Jonah to be a picture of Christ. Yet the Lord Jesus Himself uses Jonah's three days and nights in the belly of the great fish due to his disobedience as a picture of His own death, burial, and resurrection (Matt 12:40). Though there are similarities in the three days and nights, there is a vast gulf between Jonah and Christ. His greatness is seen as a contrast in at least four ways: