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Three days & three nights

Matthew 12:40 View context

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

Three days & two nights

Mark 10:34 View context

they will mock him, and spit upon him, and flog him, and kill him; and after three days (meta treis emeras) he will rise again.

Note: If he rose ON the third day, the third night had not come yet.

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