Matthew 12:40

Bible in Basic English 1965

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the great fish, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Cross References

2 Kings 14:25

He got back the old limits of Israel from the way into Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, as the Lord had said by his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet of Gath-hepher.

Psalm 63:9

But those whose desire is my soul's destruction will go down to the lower parts of the earth.

Jonah 1:17

And the Lord made ready a great fish to take Jonah into its mouth; and Jonah was inside the fish for three days and three nights.

Matthew 12:8

For the Son of man is lord of the Sabbath.

Matthew 16:21

From that time Jesus went on to make clear to his disciples how he would have to go up to Jerusalem, and undergo much at the hands of those in authority and the chief priests and scribes, and be put to death, and the third day come again from the dead.

Matthew 17:23

And when they had come to Capernaum, those who took the Temple tax came to Peter and said, Does not your master make payment of the Temple tax?

Matthew 27:40

You who would give the Temple to destruction and put it up again in three days, get yourself free: if you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.

Matthew 28:6

He is not here, for he has come to life again, even as he said. Come, see the Lord's resting-place.

Matthew 8:20

And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have a resting-place; but the Son of man has nowhere to put his head.

John 2:19

And Jesus said to them, Send destruction on this Temple and I will put it up again in three days.