After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished.<n id="1" />

For just as Jonah was <b><i>in the belly of the huge fishi>b><n id="1" /> <i><b>for three days and three nightsb>i>,<n id="2" /> so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.

No one<n id="1" /> was able to answer him a word, and from that day on no one dared to question him any longer.p>

and said, &#8220;Sir, we remember that while that deceiver was still alive he said, &#8216;After three days I will rise again.&#8217;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Six days later<n id="1" /> Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John the brother of James,<n id="2" /> and led them privately up a high mountain.

saying, &#8216;These last fellows worked one hour, and you have made them equal to us who bore the hardship and burning heat of the day.&#8217;

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;But as for that day and hour no one knows it &#8211; not even the angels in heaven<n id="1" /> &#8211; except the Father alone.

&#8220;You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be handed over<n id="1" /> to be crucified.&#8221;<n id="2" />

So they took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story is told among the Jews to this day.<n id="1" />p>

teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember,<n id="1" /> I am with you<n id="2" /> always, to the end of the age.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

For in those days before the flood, people<n id="1" /> were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.

I<n id="1" /> tell you, from now on I will not drink of this fruit<n id="2" /> of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father&#8217;s kingdom.&#8221;

So give orders to secure the tomb until the third day. Otherwise his disciples may come and steal his body<n id="1" /> and say to the people, &#8216;He has been raised from the dead,&#8217; and the last deception will be worse than the first.&#8221;