Matthew 12:40
For as Jonah [Dove] was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights, + 12:40. Quoted from Jonah 1:17 (Heb Bible 2:1) and Matt 16:4 so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
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Psalms 63:9But those who seek my soul, to destroy it, 2 shall go into the lower parts of the earth. 1
Matthew 16:21+ 16:21 (21-23) MP: Obedient even unto death. (Is 53:12a) From that time, Yeshua [Salvation] began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem [City of peace] and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and Torah-Teachers, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.
Matthew 27:40and saying, “You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Ben-Elohim ·Son of Elohim God·, come down from the execution-stake!”
John 2:19Yeshua [Salvation] answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
Matthew Henry on Matthew 12:39-46
The Pharisees Ask a Sign. 38 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. 39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: 40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this… Read the whole commentary →