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There is a reference to this in Matthew 12:40. It appears Jesus was not in the tomb three nights. Most of Christians traditionally believe that Jesus was crucified on Friday afternoon, “placed in the tomb before sundown Friday night, rested in the tomb on the Sabbath (Saturday) and was resurrected on Sunday morning before dawn.
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Matthew 12:40
So how does it make 3 days & 3 nights?
So how is the 3 nights prophecy fulfilled?Analogy to Jonah's time in the whale, and a figure of speech. No, it was not three sunsets and three sunrises, it was three days, inclusive: Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
-CryptoLutheran
So how is the 3 nights prophecy fulfilled?
Its specifically speaking about the time spent and its the only relevant thing!There is no "3 nights prophecy". Jesus said the only sign to be given was the sign of the prophet Jonah, speaking toward His death and resurrection. The amount of time Jesus spent in the grave is irrelevant; the point is that the only sign to be given to the "faithless generation" was His death and resurrection. The central claim of Jesus' messianic status, in Christianity, is that He stopped being dead.
-CryptoLutheran
Its specifically speaking about the time spent and its the only relevant thing!
It doesn't make 3 nights because those words were not meant to be taken literally IMHO. "Three days and three nights" is a figure of speech or an Hebrew idiom. For example, an American idiom is, "It is raining cats and dogs" yet, not one cat or dog is falling from the sky. It simply means, "It is raining hard". "Three days and three nights" simply means "three days".There is a reference to this in Matthew 12:40. It appears Jesus was not in the tomb three nights. Most of Christians traditionally believe that Jesus was crucified on Friday afternoon, “placed in the tomb before sundown Friday night, rested in the tomb on the Sabbath (Saturday) and was resurrected on Sunday morning before dawn.
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Matthew 12:40
So how does it make 3 days & 3 nights?
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RDKirk,
re: "Not so much a particular figure of speech as it is a common concept of expression in the Middle East--and still is today."
I wonder if you might provides examples which show that it was/is common in the Middle East to say that a daytime or a night time would be involved with an event when no part of a daytime or no part of a night time could occur?
This phenomena is exemplified in scripture in the book of Esther. "Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa, and fast for me; do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maidens also will fast in the same way," (Esther 4:16 ). Then, in Esther 5:1 it says, "Now it came about on the third day that Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king’s palace in front of the king’s rooms, and the king was sitting on his royal throne in the throne room, opposite the entrance to the palace." We can see that even though the three days and nights had not been completed, Esther went in to see the King on the third day even though she said to fast for three days and nights. We see that "on the third day" is equivalent to "after three days."RDKirk,
re: "What?"
You wrote that it is a common concept of expression in the Middle East. I'm simply asking if you could provides examples which support your comment that "it" was a common expression, i.e., to forecast or say that a daytime or a night time would be involved with an event when no part of a daytime or no part of a night time could have occurred.
RDKirk,
re: "What?"
You wrote that it is a common concept of expression in the Middle East. I'm simply asking if you could provides examples which support your comment that "it" was a common expression, i.e., to forecast or say that a daytime or a night time would be involved with an event when no part of a daytime or no part of a night time could have occurred.
RDKirk,
re: "What is 'an event in which no part of a daytime or no part of a night time could have occurred?'"
Well, if a 6th day of the week death/1st day of the week resurrection scenario is true, then there was no way that a 3rd night could have been involved.
RDKirk,
re: "What I mean is that 'three days and three nights' means 'more than a two days, not as long as a week' without an intent to be absolutely precise."
How do you know that the Messiah didn't mean that He would be in the "heart of the earth" for at least a portion of a third night time?
There is a reference to this in Matthew 12:40. It appears Jesus was not in the tomb three nights. Most of Christians traditionally believe that Jesus was crucified on Friday afternoon, “placed in the tomb before sundown Friday night, rested in the tomb on the Sabbath (Saturday) and was resurrected on Sunday morning before dawn.
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Matthew 12:40
So how does it make 3 days & 3 nights?
Maybe one of the authors just got it wrong, or may be Jesus never said it.
So how is the 3 nights prophecy fulfilled?
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