Jonah the prophet: he was from the land of Kariathmaoum, near Azotus, a city of the Greeks by the sea.
2At that time Elijah the prophet was rebuking Ahab, king of Samaria, and having called down a great famine upon the land, he fled into the wilderness.
3And he was fed by the ravens, and drank water from the brook.
4And when the brook was dried up, he was hungry.
5And he came to Sarephtha of Sidonia, to a poor widow woman, who was the mother of Jonah; and he entered her house, and she did for him as he commanded her; and he ate, and blessed her with grain and oil, and remained with her.
6For he could not remain with the uncircumcised.
7And when her son Jonah died, God raised him up through Elijah, and gave him back alive to his mother, because of her hospitality.
8And when Jonah had come of age, he was sent to Nineveh, to the Assyrians.
9And Jonah sought to flee from the Lord, and was swallowed by the whale, wishing to go to Tarshish; and coming out of the whale he proclaimed the destruction of Nineveh.
10And the Ninevites repented before God, and were shown mercy.
11And Jonah was grieved, and returning he did not remain in his own land, but taking his mother with him, he dwelt in the land of Sour, of the foreigners.
12For he said: "Thus shall I be rid of the reproach that I prophesied falsely against Nineveh."
13And dwelling in the land of Saar, there he died and was buried in the cave of Kenezeos the judge.
14He prophesied that when they see many nations in Jerusalem from the west, it will be laid waste to the ground.