Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.

Bible References

General references

Luke 24:46
and said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day;
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.
Jonah 2:10
And the LORD spoke unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
Jonah 3:2
Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
Matthew 12:40
for as Jonah 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.