Then the sailors were afraid, and cried out every man to his god, and threw out the goods that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it from them. But Jonah had gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay down, and was fast asleep.
And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light.
Therefore seeing that we also are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,