It takes a lot of cheek for a clergyman especially to pronounce that they doubt God’s Word. I’d believe it if it said Jonah swallowed the great fish. As the old timer reportedly said, “I believe the Bible from cover to cover. I even believe the cover is genuine leather!”
“I’d believe it if it said Jonah swallowed the great fish.”
Jesus and also the book of Jonah itself indicate that Jonah DIED in the whale.
Then God raised up both Jonah from the fish and Jesus from the tomb.