And the sailors were afraid, and each man cried to his god. And they threw out the ship’s articles into the sea, to lighten it from upon them. And Jonah had gone down into the recesses of the ship; and he lay down, and was fast asleep.
And the lord praised the unrighteous steward, because he acted prudently. For the sons of this age are more prudent than the sons of light themselves are in their generation.
So therefore we also, having so great a cloud of witnesses lying around us, having laid aside every weight and the easily surrounding sin, through patience let us also run the race being set before us,