Verse 40

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.

Referenced Verses

  • 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!”