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Matthew 12:40,“For just 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.”
Mark 8:31 “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 again”
In Matthew 17:22-23 Jesus gives definition to his use of "in the heart of the earth" in chapter 12, "And while they were gathering together in Galilee, Jesus said to them, 'The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men; and they will kill Him, and He will be raised on the third day.' And they were deeply grieved."
In the heart of the earth is the same thing as "into the hands of men." From the time Jesus was betrayed until the time he rose from the tomb was three days and three nights.
