One 19th  century author reported how a clergyman explained the account of Jonah and the huge fish as a strange sort of allegory Jonah stayed at a hotel in Joppa called The Sign of the Whale
एकोणीसाव्या शतकातील एका लेखकाने, एका पाळकाविषयी सांगितले ज्याने, योना व मोठ्या माशाचा अहवाल एक दंतकथा असल्याचे म्हटले.