As Jonas Was
In what way was Jesus as Jonas during those three days and three nights?
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     The days and nights are from a statements of Jesus recorded by Matthew and Luke:

    "Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here. Matt. 12:38-41.
    A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed. Matt. 16:4.
     Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. Luke 24:25-27

 Let the Bible explain itself, a principle of Protestantism:-- ‘There is no sure doctrine but such as is conformable to the word of God. . . . The Lord forbids the teaching of any other doctrine. . . .The Holy Scriptures ought to be explained by other and clearer texts; . . . this Holy Book is, in all things necessary for the Christian, easy of understanding, and calculated to scatter the darkness.’ (Protest of the princes) GC 204.

 ‘When brought face to face with the queen of Scotland, in whose presence the zeal of many a leader of the Protestants had abated, John Knox bore unswerving witness for the truth…

     Said Mary: "Ye interpret the Scriptures in one manner, and they [the Roman Catholic teachers] interpret in another; whom shall I believe, and who shall be judge?"

     "Ye shall believe God, that plainly speaketh in His word," answered the Reformer; "and farther than the word teaches you, ye neither shall believe the one nor the other. The word of God is plain in itself; and if there appear any obscurity in one place, the Holy Ghost, which is never contrary to Himself, explains the same more clearly in other places, so that there can remain no doubt but unto such as obstinately remain ignorant."--David Laing, The Collected Works of John Knox, vol. 2, pp. 281, 284.’  (GC 250-251)
 
 
 
 
 

Luke   24:25  Then he said unto them [disciples], O fools, and slow of heart to believe all
that the prophets have spoken:

Luke   24:26  Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his
glory?

Luke   24:27  And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all
the scriptures the things concerning himself.
 
 

Jonah   1:17  Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was
in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

Jonah   2:1  Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,

Jonah   2:2  And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me;
out of the belly of hell cried I, [and] thou heardest my voice.
Jonah   2:3  For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the
floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
 
 

Jesus--Ps   18:4  The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men
made me afraid.

Psalms   18:5  The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
 
 

Sorrows of death -- Matthew   26:36  Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called
Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder.

Matthew   26:37  And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be
sorrowful and very heavy.

Matthew   26:38  Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death:
tarry ye here, and watch with me.

Matthew   26:39  And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O
my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou
[wilt].
 
 

Floods  of ungodly men  -- Matthew   26:45  Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto
them, Sleep on now, and take [your] rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is
betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Matthew   26:46  Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that doth betray me.

Matthew   26:47  And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a
great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.
 
 

Jonah   2:3  For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods
compassed me about: ! all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
 
 

Jesus, in Psalm 40:
 
 

Psalms   40:12  For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities (2.
Corinthians   5:21  For he hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin) have taken hold
upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head:
therefore my heart faileth me.

Psalms   40:13  Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.

Psalms   40:14  Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to
destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

(John   18:4  Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth, and
said unto them, Whom seek ye?

John   18:5  They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am [he]. And
Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them.

John   18:6  As soon then as he had said unto them, I am [he], they went backward, and fell
to the ground.)
 
 

  Psalms   35:4  Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be
turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
  5  Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase
[them].
  6  Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute
them.
  7  For without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a pit, [which] without
cause they have digged for my soul.
 
 

Jonah   2:3  For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods
compassed me about: all ! thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
 
 

Jesus, in Psalm 42:
 
 

(Psalms   42:7  Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and
thy billows are gone over me.)
 
 

Context: Psalms   42:3  My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually
say unto me, Where [is] thy God?

Psalms   42:4  When I remember these [things], I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with
the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a
multitude that kept holyday.

(John   12:12  On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard
that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

John   12:13  Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna:
Blessed [is] the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.
 
 

‘"And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast. The same
came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we
would see Jesus. Philip cometh and telleth Andrew, and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus."
(Luke 12:20-22)
  "These Gentiles were excluded from the temple court where Jesus was sitting over against the treasury. They had heard much in favor of and against Jesus, and were desirous to see and hear him for themselves. They could not come to him, but were obliged to wait in the court of the Gentiles. As the disciples bore the message of the Greeks to Jesus and awaited his answer, he seemed to be in a deep study, and answered them: "The hour is come that the Son of man should be glorified. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone; but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." The request of the Greeks to see Jesus brought the future before him. The Jews had rejected the only one who could save them. They were soon to imbrue their hands in his blood, and place him with thieves and robbers.)"
 
 

Psalms   42:5  Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and [why] art thou disquieted in me? hope
thou in God: for I shall yet praise him [for] the help of his countenance.

Psalms   42:6  O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee
from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

Psalms   42:7  Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and
thy billows are gone over me.

Psalms   42:8  [Yet] the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the
night his song [shall be] with me, [and] my prayer unto the God of my life.

Psalms   42:9  I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?

Psalms   42:10  [As] with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say
daily unto me, Where [is] thy God?

Psalms   42:11  Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within
me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health of my
countenance, and my God.
 
 

Jonah   2:4  Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy
holy temple.
 
 

Jesus, in Psalm 43:
 
 

Psalms   43:1  Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me
from the deceitful and unjust man.

Psalms   43:2  For thou [art] the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I
mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Psalms   43:3  O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto
thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

Psalms   43:4  Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon
the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.

Psalms   43:5  Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me?
hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God.
 
 
 
 

Jonah   2:3  For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the
floods compassed me about: all ! thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
 
 

Jesus, in Psalms 69:
 
 

Psalms   69:1  Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto [my] soul.

Psalms   69:2  I sink in deep mire, where [there is] no standing: I am come into deep waters,
where the floods overflow me.

Psalms   69:3  I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for
my God.

Psalms   69:4  They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head:
they that would destroy me, [being] mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored
[that] which I took not away.
 
 

John   15:23  He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

John   15:24  If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had
not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

John   15:25  But [this cometh to pass], that the word might be fulfilled that is written in
their law, They hated me without a cause.
 
 

Psalms   69:5  O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
 
 

Foolishness -- 1. Corinthians   1:18  For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish
foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
 
 

My sins -- 2. Corinthians   5:21  For he hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin;
that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
 
 
 
 

Psalms   69:6  Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my
sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.

Psalms   69:7  Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

Psalms   69:8  I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's
children.

Psalms   69:9  For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them
that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
 
 

Isaiah   53:3  He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with
grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Isaiah   53:4  Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did
esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

Isaiah   53:5  But he [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for our
iniquities: the chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Psalms   69:10  When I wept, [and chastened] my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

Psalms   69:11  I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.

Psalms   69:12  They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I [was] the song of the
drunkards.

Psalms   69:13  But as for me, my prayer [is] unto thee, O LORD, [in] an acceptable time: O
God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.

Psalms   69:14  Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered
from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

Psalms   69:15  Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me
up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

Psalms   69:16  Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness [is] good: turn unto me according
to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

Psalms   69:17  And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me
speedily.

Psalms   69:18  Draw nigh unto my soul, [and] redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.

Psalms   69:19  Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine
adversaries [are] all before thee.

Psalms   69:20  Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked
[for some] to take pity, but [there was] none; and for comforters, but I found none.
 
 

Hebrews   12:2  Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy
that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the
right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews   12:3  For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself,
lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

Hebrews   12:4  Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
 
 

Psalms   69:21  They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me
vinegar to drink.
 
 

Matthew   27:33  And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a
place of a skull,

Matthew   27:34  They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had
tasted [thereof], he would not drink.
 
 

Psalms   22:16  For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have
enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

Psalms   22:17  I may tell all my bones: they look [and] stare upon me.

Psalms   22:18  They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
 
 

Matthew   27:35  And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it
might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them,
and upon my vesture did they cast lots.

Matthew   27:36  And sitting down they watched him there;
 
 

Romans   1:28  And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God
gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
 
 

Jonah   2:8  They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
 
 
 
 

Psalms   69:22  Let their table become a snare before them: and [that which should have
been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap.

Psalms   69:23  Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins
continually to shake.

Psalms   69:24  Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of
them.

Psalms   69:25  Let their habitation be desolate; [and] let none dwell in their tents.

Psalms   69:26  For they persecute [him] whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to
the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
 
 
 
 

Jonah   2:3  For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods
compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
 
 

In deep waters -- Proverbs   18:3  When the wicked cometh, [then] cometh also contempt,
and with ignominy reproach.

Proverbs   18:4  The words of a man's mouth [are as] deep waters, [and] the wellspring
of wisdom [as] a flowing brook.
 
 

Proverbs   20:5  Counsel in the heart of man [is like] deep water; but a man of
understanding will draw it out.
 
 

Jonah   2:5  The waters compassed me about, [even] to the soul: the depth ! closed
me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
 
 

Jesus, in Psalms 22:
 
 

Psalms   22:12  Many bulls have compassed me: strong [bulls] of Bashan have beset me
round.

Psalms   22:16  For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have
enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
 
 
 
 

Matthew   27:39  And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,

Matthew   27:40  And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest [it] in three
days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.

Matthew   27:41  Likewise also the chief priests mocking [him], with the scribes and elders,
said,

Matthew   27:42  He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let
him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.

Matthew   27:43  He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said,
I am the Son of God.

Matthew   27:44  The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.

Matthew   27:45  Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the
ninth hour.

Matthew   27:46  And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli,
lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
 
 

Psalms   22:1  My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [why art thou so] far from
helping me, [and from] the words of my roaring?

Psalms   22:2  O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season,
and am not silent.

Psalms   22:3  But thou [art] holy, [O thou] that inhabitest the praises of Israel.

Psalms   22:4  Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

Psalms   22:5  They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not
confounded.

Psalms   22:6  But I [am] a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

Psalms   22:7  All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the
head, [saying],

Psalms   22:8  He trusted on the LORD [that] he would deliver him: let him deliver
him, seeing he delighted in him.

Psalms   22:9  But thou [art] he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope
[when I was] upon my mother's breasts.

Psalms   22:10  I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou [art] my God from my mother's
belly.

Psalms   22:11  Be not far from me; for trouble [is] near; for [there is] none to help.

Psalms   22:12  Many bulls have compassed me: strong [bulls] of Bashan have beset me
round.

Psalms   22:13  They gaped upon me [with] their mouths, [as] a ravening and a roaring lion.

Psalms   22:14  I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like
wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
 
 

(Isaiah   53:12  he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the
transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.)
 
 

Psalms   22:15  My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws;
and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

Psalms   22:16  For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have
enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

Psalms   22:17  I may tell all my bones: they look [and] stare upon me.

Psalms   22:18  They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
 
 

Jonah   2:2  And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard
me; out of the belly of hell cried I, [and] thou! heardest my voice.
 
 

Jonah   2:4  Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy
temple.
 
 

Jesus, in Psalm 88:
 
 

Psalms   88:1  O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day [and] night before thee:

Psalms   88:2  Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;

Psalms   88:3  For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

Psalms   88:4  I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man [that hath] no
strength:

Psalms   88:5  Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou
rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

Psalms   88:6  Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

Psalms   88:7  Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy
waves. Selah.

Psalms   88:8  Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an
abomination unto them: [I am] shut up, and I cannot come forth.

Psalms   88:9  Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon
thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

Psalms   88:10  Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise [and] praise
thee? Selah.

Psalms   88:11  Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? [or] thy faithfulness in
destruction?

Psalms   88:12  Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of
forgetfulness?

Psalms   88:13  But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer
prevent thee.

Psalms   88:14  LORD, why castest thou off my soul? [why] hidest thou thy face from
me?

Psalms   88:15  I [am] afflicted and ready to die from [my] youth up: [while] I suffer
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Psalms   88:16  Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

Psalms   88:17  They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about
together.

Psalms   88:18  Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, [and] mine acquaintance into
darkness.
 
 

Jonah   2:4  Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy
temple.
 
 

Jesus, in Psalm 22, cont’d:
 
 

Psalms   22:19  But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.

Psalms   22:20  Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.

Psalms   22:21  Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the
unicorns.

Psalms   22:22  I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the
congregation will I praise thee.

Psalms   22:23  Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him;
and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.

Psalms   22:24  For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted;
neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

Psalms   22:25  My praise [shall be] of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows
before them that fear him.
 
 

Jonah   2:9  But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay [that]
that I have vowed.! Salvation [is] of the LORD.
 
 

Jesus, in Psalm 61:

Psalms   61:1  Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.

Psalms   61:2  From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed:
lead me to the rock [that] is higher than I.

Psalms   61:3  For thou hast been a shelter for me, [and] a strong tower from the enemy.

Psalms   61:4  I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings.
Selah.

Psalms   61:5  For thou, O God, hast heard my vows: thou hast given [me] the
heritage of those that fear thy name.

Psalms   61:6  Thou wilt prolong the king's life: [and] his years as many generations.

(Isaiah   53:10  Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put [him] to grief: when thou
shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong [his] days, and
the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.)

Psalms   61:7  He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, [which] may
preserve him.

Psalms   61:8  So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my
vows.
 
 
 
 

Jonah   2:9  But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay
[that] that I have vowed.! Salvation [is] of the LORD.;
 
 

Jesus, in Psalm 35:
 
 

Psalms   35:18  I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee
among much people.
 
 

Context:

Psalms   35:9  And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.

Psalms   35:10  All my bones shall say, LORD, who [is] like unto thee, which deliverest the
poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth
him?

Psalms   35:11  False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge [things] that I knew not.

Psalms   35:12  They rewarded me evil for good [to] the spoiling of my soul.

Psalms   35:13  But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing [was] sackcloth: I humbled
my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

Psalms   35:14  I behaved myself as though [he had been] my friend [or] brother: I bowed
down heavily, as one that mourneth [for his] mother.

Psalms   35:15  But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: [yea],
the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; they did tear [me],
and ceased not:

Psalms   35:16  With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

Psalms   35:17  Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my
darling from the lions.

Psalms   35:18  I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee
among much people.

Psalms   35:19  Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: [neither] let
them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

Psalms   35:20  For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against [them
that are] quiet in the land.

Psalms   35:21  Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, [and] said, Aha, aha, our eye
hath seen [it].

Psalms   35:22  [This] thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O LORD, be not far from
me.

Psalms   35:23  Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, [even] unto my cause, my God and
my Lord.

Psalms   35:24  Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not
rejoice over me.

Psalms   35:25  Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say,
We have swallowed him up.
 
 

Matthew   12:40  For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall
the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
 
 

1) Heart of the earth, desolate place – i.e. Ezekiel   26:20  When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;

Jesus, abandoned of all men -- Matthew   26:56  But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled. Isaiah 53:3  He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed ! him not. Psalms 38:11  My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

Psalms   38:12  They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me]: and they that seek my
hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

Psalms   38:13  But I, as a deaf [man], heard not; and [I was] as a dumb man [that] openeth
not his mouth.

Psalms   41:5  Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

Psalms   41:6  And if he come to see [me], he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to
itself; [when] he goeth abroad, he telleth [it].

Psalms   41:7  All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my
hurt.

Psalms   41:8  An evil disease, [say they], cleaveth fast unto him: and [now] that he lieth he
shall rise up no more.

Psalms   41:9  Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread,
hath lifted up [his] heel against me.

Psalms   88:17  They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about
together.

Psalms   88:18  Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, [and] mine acquaintance
into darkness.
 

2) Heart of the earth, delivered unto death – i.e. Ezekiel   31:14  To the end that none
of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top
among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for
they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of
the children of men, with them that go ! down to the pit.

Jesus, delivered unto death -- Mark   10:33  [Saying], Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and
the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall
condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles. Matthew   26:45  Then cometh
he to his disciples, and sa! ith unto them, Sleep on now, and take [your] rest: behold, the hour
is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.Luke   24:20  And how
the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified
him.

3) Heart of the earth, place for the uncircumcised – i.e. Ezekiel   32:24  There [is]
Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword,
which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused
their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go
down to the pit.

Jesus, numbered with the transgressors, bearing our shame -- Isaiah   53:9  And he
made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no
violence, neither [was any] deceit in his mouth. Isaiah   53:12  Therefore will I divide him [a
portion] with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because ! he hath
poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the
sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

4) Heart of the earth, the furthest from heaven – i.e. Proverbs   25:3  The heaven
for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings [is] unsearchable.

Jesus -- Psalms   22:1  My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [why art thou so] far
from helping me, [and from] the words of my roaring?
 
 

Jonah   2:6  I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars [was]
about me for ever: yet h! ast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

Jonah   2:7  When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came
in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
 
 

Jesus, in Psalm 18:
 

Psalms   18:4  The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made
me afraid.

Psalms   18:5  The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

Psalms   18:6  In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my
voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, [even] into his ears.

Psalms   18:7  Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills
moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
 
 

Matthew   27:54  Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw
the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly
this was the Son of God.

Jonah   2:8  They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
 
 

Jesus, in Psalm 31:
 
 

Psalms   31:5  Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of
truth.

Psalms   31:6  I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.

Psalms   31:16  Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.
 
 

Luke   23:46  And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I
commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
 
 

“Suddenly the gloom lifted from the cross, and in clear, trumpetlike tones, that seemed to resound throughout creation, Jesus cried, "It is finished." "Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit." A light encircled the cross, and the face of the Saviour shone with a glory like the sun. He then bowed His head upon His breast, and died.”  DA 756

Context: Psalms   31:4  Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou
[art] my strength.

Psalms   31:11  I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours,
and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

Psalms   31:12  I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

Psalms   31:13  For I have heard the slander of many: fear [was] on every side: while they
took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

Psalms   31:14  But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou [art] my God.

Psalms   31:15  My times [are] in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and
from them that persecute me.

Psalms   31:16  Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.
 
 

Jonah   2:6  I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars [was]
about me for ever: yet hast ! thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my
God.
 
 

Matthew   28:2  And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord
descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.

Matthew   28:3  His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:

Matthew   28:4  And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead [men].

Matthew   28:5  And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know
that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.

Matthew   28:6  He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where
the Lord lay.

Matthew   28:7  And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and,
behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.
 
 

Jonah   2:9  But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay [that]
that I have vowed. Salvation [is] of the LORD.

Jonah   2:10  And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry
[land].
 
 

Jesus, in Psalm 18, cont’d:
 
 

Psalms   18:16  He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

Psalms   18:17  He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for
they were too strong for me.
 
 

Jesus, in Psalm 40:
 
 

Psalms   40:1  I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

Psalms   40:2  He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and
set my feet upon a rock, [and] established my goings.

Psalms   40:3  And he hath put a new song in my mouth, [even] praise unto our God: many
shall see [it], and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

Psalms   40:4  Blessed [is] that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the
proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

Psalms   40:5  Many, O LORD my God, [are] thy wonderful works [which] thou hast done, and
thy thoughts [which are] to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: [if] I
would declare and speak [of them], they are more than can be numbered.

Psalms   40:6  Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened:
burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

Psalms   40:7  Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book [it is] written of me,

Psalms   40:8  I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within my heart.

Psalms   40:9  I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not
refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

Psalms   40:10  I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy
faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from
the great congregation.

Psalms   40:11  Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy
lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
 
 

Jonah   2:9  But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay [that]
that I have vowed. Salvation [is] of the LORD.

Jonah   2:10  And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry
[land].
 
 

Jonah   2:6  I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars [was]
about me for ever: yet hast ! thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my
God.
 
 

Jesus, in Psalm 16:
 
 

Psalms   16:8  I have set the LORD always before me: because [he is] at my right hand, I
shall not be moved.

Psalms   16:9  Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in
hope.

Psalms   16:10  For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine
Holy One to see corruption.

Psalms   16:11  Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence [is] fulness of joy; at thy
right hand [there are] pleasures for evermore.
 
 

Luke 24: 44  And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was
yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in
the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
 
 

Acts   2:25  For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face,
for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:

Acts   2:26  Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh
shall rest in hope:

Acts   2:27  Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine
Holy One to see corruption.

Acts   2:28  Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy
with thy countenance.

Acts   2:29  Men [and] brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that
he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.

Acts   2:30  Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him,
that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his
throne;

Acts   2:31  He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul
was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.

Acts   2:32  This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.

Acts   2:33  Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the
Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.

Acts   2:34  For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said
unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,

Acts   2:35  Until I make thy foes thy footstool.

Acts   2:36  Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath
made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
 
 

Thus we see in Jonah chapter 2 all what Jesus went through from Thursday night till Sunday
morning. In Gethsemane after sunset, on the beginning of the sixth day of the week, the
floods of ungodly men compassed Jesus about (Jonah 2:3)  till on the first day of the week,
then He rose (Jonah 2:6: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption. Also v.10). So all
this happens over three consecutive days: part of the 6th, the 7th and part of the 1st. It also
happens over three consecutive nights, the night of the 6th day (what we call today the night
of Thursday to Friday), the night of the 7th day (Friday to Saturday), and the! night of the
1st day (Saturday to Sunday).