Matthew 12:40

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Is the Church’s position on Matthew 12:40 that Jesus was not saying He would be buried for three days and three nites?

The answers someone gave me before made it sound like Jesus was always including Thursday (when His suffering began). If so, where was Jesus Thursday nite and is there any historical evidence of where He was, in jail, etc?

My previous question of “Was Jesus crucified on Friday”? has been answered very well and I thank you for showing me the “Truth” in regards to that day. Now I need to get over the Matthew 12:40!

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Seems plain to me: “Just as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.”
 
I have read in different commentaries that the “Sign of Jonah” was a prediction of Christ Ressurection on the third day. And I have read various ways three days can be calculated from Jesus’ passion, death and Resurrection.

However, I have read other commentaries that look at this passage in a different light and for me, atleast, it has greater valvue. In Matthew the scribes and Pharisees are demanding a sign. Jesus responds with the sign of Jonah, however, what Jesus is saying here, an this is looking at what was just said by Jesus about trees bearing fruit, is Jesus telling them (the scribes and Pharisees) just as in Jonah’s time it wasn’t the Israelite who responded to God’s call to repent, but Gentiles.
An just as the Israelites rejected God’s call so were the Pharisees and scribes, leaders who should have recognized Jesus for who he truly was but rejected him instead.Thus, the Kingdom of Heaven will be opened to gentiles who will accepted the Kingdom before the Jewish leaders and there acceptance will serve as condemnation of the scribes and Pharisees.
 
Catholic Daily, just posting the same scripture verse does me no good. Can you tell me how you get three days and three nites in the “heart” of the earth ( I guess this means buried in the earth) if He was not buried on Thursday?
 
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Catholic Daily, just posting the same scripture verse does me no good. Can you tell me how you get three days and three nites in the “heart” of the earth ( I guess this means buried in the earth) if He was not buried on Thursday?
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Three days does not mean 3 - 24 hour days for a total of 72 hours. It means He was in the sephlchre on each of three days - Friday night, all of Saturday, early hours of Sunday.

Nita
 
Sorry groovygroovy; I posted too quick. Had in mind just the 3 days - and missed the 3 nites. Don’t have an answer for that.

Nita
 
The Jewish day is not counted from Midnight to Midnight but from Sunset to sunrise
First watch 6 to 9 pm
Seccond watch 6 pm to midnight
Third Watch Midnight to 3 am
Fourth Watch 3 am to 6 am

From Catholic SourceBook by Rev Peter Klein,
Third Edn p 365-the Jewish Calendar (BROWN-ROA)

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