for just as Jonah was in the stomach of the sea monster for three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.

Four Thousand Men Fed

Now Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, “I feel compassion for the people, because they have remained with Me now for three days and have nothing to eat; and I do not want to send them away hungry, for they might faint on the way.”

and said, “This man stated, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and to rebuild it in three days.’”

and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save Yourself! If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross.”

and they said, “Sir, we remember that when that deceiver was still alive, He said, ‘After three days I am rising.’

“I feel compassion for the people because they have remained with Me for three days already and have nothing to eat.

And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise from the dead.

For He was teaching His disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is to be handed over to men, and they will kill Him; and when He has been killed, He will rise three days later.”

And they will mock Him and spit on Him, and flog Him and kill Him; and three days later He will rise from the dead.”

“We heard Him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that was made by hands, and in three days I will build another, made without hands.’”

Those passing by were hurling abuse at Him, shaking their heads and saying, “Ha! You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,

Then, after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions.

Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

The Jews then said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple, and yet You will raise it up in three days?”