So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel.
“So then, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the vision from heaven.
You are my friends if you do what I command.
But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the Lord.
“Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.”
But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.