Matthew 12:40

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish for three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.

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  • Jonah 1:17 : 17 Jonah Prays(2:1) The LORD sent a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights.
  • Matt 16:21 : 21 First Prediction of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection From that time on Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.
  • Matt 17:23 : 23 They will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised.” And they became greatly distressed.
  • Matt 27:63-64 : 63 and said,“Sir, we remember that while that deceiver was still alive he said,‘After three days I will rise again.’ 64 So give orders to secure the tomb until the third day. Otherwise his disciples may come and steal his body and say to the people,‘He has been raised from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”
  • John 2:19 : 19 Jesus replied,“Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up again.”
  • Matt 8:20 : 20 Jesus said to him,“Foxes have dens, and the birds in the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”
  • Ps 63:9 : 9 Enemies seek to destroy my life, but they will descend into the depths of the earth.
  • Jonah 2:2-6 : 2 and said,“I called out to the LORD from my distress, and he answered me; from the belly of Sheol I cried out for help, and you heard my prayer. 3 You threw me into the deep waters, into the middle of the sea; the ocean current engulfed me; all the mighty waves you sent swept over me. 4 I thought I had been banished from your sight, that I would never again see your holy temple! 5 Water engulfed me up to my neck; the deep ocean surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head. 6 I went down to the very bottoms of the mountains; the gates of the netherworld barred me in forever; but you brought me up from the Pit, O LORD, my God.
  • Matt 27:40 : 40 and saying,“You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are God’s Son, come down from the cross!”

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    29The Sign of Jonah As the crowds were increasing, Jesus began to say,“This generation is a wicked generation; it looks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.

    30For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so the Son of Man will be a sign to this generation.

    31The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the people of this generation and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon– and now, something greater than Solomon is here!

    32The people of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented when Jonah preached to them– and now, something greater than Jonah is here!

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    17Jonah Prays(2:1) The LORD sent a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights.

  • Matt 12:41-42
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    41The people of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented when Jonah preached to them– and now, something greater than Jonah is here!

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

  • Matt 24:37
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    37For just like the days of Noah were, so the coming of the Son of Man will be.

  • Luke 12:40
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  • Jonah 3:3-4
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  • Luke 17:30
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    30It will be the same on the day the Son of Man is revealed.

  • Luke 17:24
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    24For just like the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.

  • Luke 24:7
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    20Then the Jewish leaders said to him,“This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and are you going to raise it up in three days?”

    21But Jesus was speaking about the temple of his body.

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    10Then the LORD commanded the fish and it disgorged Jonah on dry land.

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    22Second Prediction of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection When they gathered together in Galilee, Jesus told them,“The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men.

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    34They will mock him, spit on him, flog him severely, and kill him. Yet after three days, he will rise again.”

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  • Matt 24:39
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    39And they knew nothing until the flood came and took them all away. It will be the same at the coming of the Son of Man.

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    12He said to them,“Pick me up and throw me into the sea so that the sea will calm down for you, because I know it’s my fault you are in this severe storm.”

  • Job 14:12
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    12so man lies down and does not rise; until the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor arise from their sleep.

  • Luke 9:44
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    44“Take these words to heart, for the Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men.”

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    15So they picked Jonah up and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped raging.

  • Matt 8:24
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    24And a great storm developed on the sea so that the waves began to swamp the boat. But he was asleep.

  • Matt 12:8
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  • Matt 4:2
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    2After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished.

  • John 12:23
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    23Jesus replied,“The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

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    33They will flog him severely and kill him. Yet on the third day he will rise again.”

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    42They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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