Matthew 12:40 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴⁰For 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 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jonah 1:17
Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Matthew 27:63-64
Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. …
Matthew 17:23
And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again. And they were exceeding sorry.
John 2:19
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
Matthew 16:21
From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 38-45)

It is probable that these Pharisees with whom Christ is here in discourse were not the same that cavilled at him (Matt. 12:24), and would not credit the signs he gave; but another set of them, who saw that there was no reason to discredit them, but would not content themselves with the signs he gave, nor admit the evidence of them, unless he would give them such further proof as they should demand…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 40)

40. For as Jonas was--“a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation” (Lu 11:30). For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly--(Jon 1:17). so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth--This was the second public announcement of His resurrection three days after His death. (For the first, see Joh 2:19). Jonah’…