For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Matthew 12:40 · WEBRead the whole chapter →
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Jesus reads Jonah's three days in the fish as a prophetic sign of His own burial and resurrection.
“Yahweh prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.”