Matthew 12:40

KJV1611 – Modern English

For as Jonah 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.

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  • Jonah 1:17 : 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.
  • Matt 16:21 : 21 From that time Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised on the third day.
  • Matt 17:23 : 23 And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again. And they were exceedingly sorry.
  • Matt 27:63-64 : 63 Saying, Sir, we remember that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. 64 Command therefore that the sepulcher be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say to the people, He is risen from the dead; so the last deception will be worse than the first.
  • John 2:19 : 19 Jesus answered and said to them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
  • Matt 8:20 : 20 And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.
  • Ps 63:9 : 9 But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
  • Jonah 2:2-6 : 2 And said, I cried out because of my affliction to the LORD, and He heard me; out of the depths of the grave I cried, and You heard my voice. 3 For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas; and the floods surrounded me, all Your waves and billows passed over me. 4 Then I said, I am cast out of Your sight; yet I will look again toward Your holy temple. 5 The waters surrounded me, even to my soul: the depths closed in around me, the seaweed was wrapped around my head. 6 I went down to the foundations of the mountains; the earth with its bars was around me forever: yet You have brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
  • Matt 27:40 : 40 And saying, You who destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself. If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.

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    29And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and no sign shall be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet.

    30For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also shall the Son of Man be to this generation.

    31The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

    32The men of Nineveh shall rise up in the judgment with this generation and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, a greater than Jonah is here.

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    17Now 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.

  • Matt 12:41-42
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    41The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, a greater than Jonah is here.

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    39But he answered and said to them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and no sign shall be given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah:

  • Luke 17:26
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    26And as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man.

  • Matt 24:37
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    37But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

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  • Mark 9:31
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    30Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

  • Luke 17:24
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    24For as the lightning that flashes out of one part under heaven shines to the other part under heaven, so will the Son of Man be in his day.

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  • John 2:19-21
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    19Jesus answered and said to them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

    20Then the Jews said, It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?

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    10And the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto the dry land.

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    34And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit on him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.

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    39and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

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    67%

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  • Luke 9:44
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    44Let these sayings sink into your ears, for the Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men.

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    15So they took up Jonah, and threw him into the sea: and the sea ceased from its raging.

  • Matt 8:24
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    24And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.

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