Matthew 12:40 Cross References

Matthew 12:40

40: For as Jonah was in the belly of the great fish for three days and three nights, so I, the Son of Man, will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.

Jonah 1:17

  1. Now the LORD had arranged for a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was inside the fish for three days and three nights.

Matthew 16:21

  1. From then on Jesus began to tell his disciples plainly that he had to go to Jerusalem, and he told them what would happen to him there. He would suffer at the hands of the leaders and the leading priests and the teachers of religious law. He would be killed, and he would be raised on the third day.

John 2:19

  1. "All right," Jesus replied. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

Matthew 27:63

  1. They told him, "Sir, we remember what that deceiver once said while he was still alive: 'After three days I will be raised from the dead.'
  2. So we request that you seal the tomb until the third day. This will prevent his disciples from coming and stealing his body and then telling everyone he came back to life! If that happens, we'll be worse off than we were at first."

Matthew 17:23

  1. He will be killed, but three days later he will be raised from the dead." And the disciples' hearts were filled with grief.

Matthew 27:40

  1. "So! You can destroy the Temple and build it again in three days, can you? Well then, if you are the Son of God, save yourself and come down from the cross!"

Jonah 2:2

  1. He said, "I cried out to the LORD in my great trouble, and he answered me. I called to you from the world of the dead, and LORD, you heard me!
  2. You threw me into the ocean depths, and I sank down to the heart of the sea. I was buried beneath your wild and stormy waves.
  3. Then I said, `O LORD, you have driven me from your presence. How will I ever again see your holy Temple?'
  4. "I sank beneath the waves, and death was very near. The waters closed in around me, and seaweed wrapped itself around my head.
  5. I sank down to the very roots of the mountains. I was locked out of life and imprisoned in the land of the dead. But you, O LORD my God, have snatched me from the yawning jaws of death!

Psalms 63:9

  1. But those plotting to destroy me will come to ruin. They will go down into the depths of the earth.

Matthew 8:20

  1. But Jesus said, "Foxes have dens to live in, and birds have nests, but I, the Son of Man, have no home of my own, not even a place to lay my head."
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