For just as Jonah was in the maw of the whale for three days and nights, the Son of Man will be three days and nights in the heart of the earth.

If those days had not been cut short, nobody would have escaped, but for the sake of God's people those days will be cut short.

If the Lord had not cut those days short, nobody would have escaped, but for the sake of his own chosen people he has cut the days short.

for forty days by the Spirit, and was tempted by the devil. In all those days he ate nothing, and when they were over he was famished.

But other days will come, and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, in those days they will fast."