And the ship's captain came to him and said to him, What are you doing sleeping? Up! say a prayer to your God, if by chance God will give a thought to us, so that we may not come to destruction.

Then they said to him, Now make clear to us what is your work, and where you come from? what is your country, and who are your people?

And they said to him, What are we to do to you so that the sea may become calm for us? For the sea was getting rougher and rougher.

And am I not to have mercy on Nineveh, that great town, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons without the power of judging between right and left, as well as much cattle?