Matthew 12:40

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Yahweh prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is among them, in their dwelling.

In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.

An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” He left them, and departed.

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

No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

A man of Benjamin ran out of the army and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn and with dirt on his head.

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.

Yes, the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young, near your altars, Yahweh of Armies, my King, and my God.

but I tell you that Elijah has come already, and they didn’t recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted to. Even so the Son of Man will also suffer by them.”

saying, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise again.’

Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,

saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.”

For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so the Son of Man will also be to this generation.

The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

You who hear prayer, all men will come to you.

The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”

and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and, ‘On their hands they will bear you up, so that you don’t dash your foot against a stone.’ ”

From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.

While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men,

“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death,

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

For he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, “The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, on the third day he will rise again.”

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

that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die.

Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”

Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn’t remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

when someone told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ thinking that he brought good news, I seized him and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.

In the day of my trouble I will call on you, for you will answer me.

My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.

and will cause their voice to be heard over you, and will cry bitterly. They will cast up dust on their heads. They will wallow in the ashes.

After two days he will revive us. On the third day he will raise us up, and we will live before him.

He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

and they will kill him, and the third day he will be raised up.” They were exceedingly sorry.

They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

Now on the next day, which was the day after the Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate,

They will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him. On the third day he will rise again.”

“Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will be delivered up into the hands of men.”

But first, he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

He took the twelve aside, and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.

He isn’t here, but is risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee,

For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.”

But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to put the apostles out for a little while.

that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before Yahweh’s ark until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.

When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got off her donkey, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground.

Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her garment of various colors that was on her; and she laid her hand on her head, and went her way, crying aloud as she went.

When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and said, “Help, O king!”

Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.

For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

Then Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.

Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

Then he released to them Barabbas, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to be crucified.

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

“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles.

He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”

I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God.”

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

So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him.

to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

But God raised him from the dead,

Now this, “He ascended”, what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?

Those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and they will be glad. They will give gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.

“Yahweh kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol and brings up.

on the third day, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn, and earth on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the earth, and showed respect.

Then Joab said, “I’m not going to wait like this with you.” He took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the middle of the oak.

In the third year, Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.

But those who seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.

Jesus summoned his disciples and said, “I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way.”

Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”

and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up.”

and saying, “You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”

He is not here, for he has risen, just like he said. Come, see the place where the Lord was lying.

As they were coming down from the mountain, he commanded them that they should tell no one what things they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

He said to them, “Don’t be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen. He is not here. Behold, the place where they laid him!

After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.

Then because of the Jews’ Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus there.

God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

“Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Susa, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,