After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished.

For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish for three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.

No one was able to answer him a word, and from that day on no one dared to question him any longer.

and said, “Sir, we remember that while that deceiver was still alive he said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’

Six days later Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John the brother of James, and led them privately up a high mountain.

saying, ‘These last fellows worked one hour, and you have made them equal to us who bore the hardship and burning heat of the day.’

“But as for that day and hour no one knows it – not even the angels in heaven – except the Father alone.

“You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.”

So they took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story is told among the Jews to this day.

teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

For in those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.

I tell you, from now on I will not drink of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”

So give orders to secure the tomb until the third day. Otherwise his disciples may come and steal his body and say to the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”