When he arose, he took the young Child and His mother by night and departed for Egypt,

And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry.

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

Now in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went to them, walking on the sea.

Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial

Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of Me this night, for it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd, And the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly, I say to you that this night, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.”

Therefore command that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest His disciples come by night and steal Him away, and say to the people, ‘He has risen from the dead.’ So the last deception will be worse than the first.”

saying, “Tell them, ‘His disciples came at night and stole Him away while we slept.’