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→Whales in the Bible: Removing commentary inserted as a foot note (Find a source for this, and add it back in the article itself, citing the source in the footnote)
''Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.'' Jonah 1:17
''Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.'' Jonah 1:17
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is often regarded as being a whale.<ref>There is no contradiction here. The restriction of the word "fish" to mean "member of the class ''Pisces''" is recent. Historically "fish" meant any sea creature, a usage which survives in words and phrases such as "shellfish," "starfish," and "the whale fishery." No less an authority than Herman Melville, in ''Moby-Dick,'' defines a whale as "a spouting fish with a horizontal tale."</ref> [[Great white shark]]s are also present in the [[Mediterranean Sea]], offering an alternative swallower that is a true fish.
is often regarded as being a whale. [[Great white shark]]s are also present in the [[Mediterranean Sea]], offering an alternative swallower that is a true fish.
== Whales in literature ==
== Whales in literature ==