The Messiah and the 3 days and 3 nights timeframe of Matthew 12:40?
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What do you think the Pharisees were looking for when they asked for a sign?
To trap him. According to scripture quite a few times in different places. However, if the Holy Spirit doesn't specify, then we probably don't need to know.
I asked "what" not "why".
Why is self explanatory. They want to trap him, so they can accuse him.
So, do you think they were satisfied with the sign that the Messiah gave them - i.e., that they could use the sign to trap Him? And why do you think He used "3 days and 3 nights in the heart of the earth" for the sign?
No answer he gives will satisfy them. They were not seeking the truth.
Much of the "Old Testament" laws and ceremony is foreshadowing. It was not revealed before. It is so we can look back on it after and get it. He said 3 days and nights like Jonah because that is how long he will be in the tomb.
But why 3 days and 3 nights? Why not, let's say, 2 days and 2 nights?
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And most still are a foreshadowing.
Col 2:16-17 (AKJV/PCE)
(2:16) Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath [days]: (2:17) Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body [is] of Christ.
Note the use of PRESENT TENSE and not past tense.
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And @Nick M answered your "what" question.
That's what they were looking for: a way to trap Jesus.
What (if anything) are you really asking, there? "But why 3 days and 3 nights?" is not really a question, is it? What's your subject? What's your predicate? If you're not asking something (a predicate) about something (a subject), then you're not asking a question. I'm not saying you're not trying to ask some questiiþon; I'm just saying that, if you are trying to ask one, you are nevertheless failing to convey a question by means of the verbal form of your words, "But why 3 days and 3 nights?"
I don't care if it is 3 days, 4 days, or 11. But it probably isn't from a RNG. Time exists, and he had things to do in hell. And Apostles to prepare. And he likely needed it. So he had Jonah sit in the big fish for that amount of time, to call attention. Like calling out on the cross, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
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It was 3.
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because there is a big dispute within the churches of earth as to when did He Die on that cross. It makes a big difference.was it a Wednesday or a Friday.