• Jonah 3:2 — Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
• Jonah 3:5 — So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
• Jonah 3:10 — And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.

5 Christian traditions affirm this interpretation.

• Roman Catholic · Catholic
• Lutheran · Lutheran
• Eastern Orthodox · Orthodox
• Patristic · Patristic
• Reformed · Reformed

3 passages from 3 historic works cite scripture this interpretation depends on.

• Homilies on the Epistle to the Romans · 1 passage
• 1 Clement (Letter to the Corinthians) · 1 passage
• Antiquities of the Jews · 1 passage