'Days' in the Bible
There He fasted for forty days and nights; and after that He suffered from hunger.
"Can the bridegroom's party mourn," He replied, "as long as the bridegroom is with them? But other days will come (when the Bridegroom has been taken from them)
For just as Jonah was three days in the sea-monster's belly, so will the Son of Man be three days in the heart of the earth.
And if those days had not been cut short, no one would escape; but for the sake of God's own People those days will be cut short.
"You know that in two days' time the Passover comes. And the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified."
who testified, "This man said, 'I am able to pull down the Sanctuary of God and three days afterwards to build a new one.'"
and said, "You who would pull down the Sanctuary and build a new one within three days, save yourself. If you are God's Son, come down from the cross."
"Sir," they said, "we recollect that during his lifetime that impostor pretended that after two days he was to rise to life again.