Matthew 12:40

First Nations Version

Just as he was in the belly of a great fish for three days and nights, the True Human Being will be in the womb of the earth for three days and nights.

Cross References

John 2:19

“Tear down this sacred lodge,” he answered, “and in three days I will raise it up again.”

Matthew 17:23

who will kill him,” he told them, “but on the third day he will come back to life from the dead.” This filled his followers with sorrow and dread. From there he and his followers walked to Village of Comfort (Capernaum), where Stands on the Rock (Peter) and his brother Stands with Courage (Andrew) lived.

Matthew 27:40

and said, “You who thought you could tear down the sacred lodge and rebuild it in three days—can you even save yourself? If you are the Son of the Great Spirit, then come down off that cross!”

Matthew 16:21

Creator Sets Free (Jesus) then began to tell his followers that he must go to the Village of Peace (Jerusalem), where the elders, the head holy men, and the keepers of the scrolls would make him suffer many things and then kill him, and that on the third day he would return from the dead.

Matthew 8:20

He answered the man, “The foxes live in their holes, the winged ones who fly above us live in their nests, but the True Human Being has no place to lay his head.”

Matthew 12:8

For the True Human Being is Chief over the Day of Resting!”