For, just as 'Jonah was inside the sea-monster three days and three nights,' so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Afterwards Jesus called his disciples to him, and said: "My heart is moved at the sight of all these people, for they have already been with me three days and they have nothing to eat; and I am unwilling to send them away hungry, for fear that they should break down on the way."

"This man said 'I am able to destroy the Temple of God, and to build it in three days.'"

"You who 'destroy the Temple and build one in three days,' save yourself! If you are God's Son, come down from the cross!"

"Sir, we remember that, during his lifetime, that impostor said 'I shall rise after three days.'

The man who had received the three thousand pounds came up and brought three thousand more. 'Sir,' he said, 'you entrusted me with three thousand pounds; look, I have made another three thousand!'

So the men went. Going out again about mid-day and about three o'clock, he did as before.

After mid-day a darkness came over all the country, lasting till three in the afternoon.