Jonah 1:17 New King James Version (NKJV)

Jonah’s Prayer and Deliverance

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

Jonah 2:10 New King James Version (NKJV)

¹⁰ So the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

Jonah 3:3-10 New King James Version (NKJV)

³ So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, ^[a]a three-day journey in extent. ⁴ And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day’s walk. Then he cried out and said, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”

The People of Nineveh Believe

⁵ So the people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them. ⁶ Then word came to the king of Nineveh; and he arose from his throne and laid aside his robe, covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes. ⁷ And he caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his ^[b]nobles, saying,

¹⁰ Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God relented from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it.

Luke 24:46 New King James Version (NKJV)

⁴⁶ Then He said to them, “Thus it is written, ^[a]and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,

Acts 10:40 New King James Version (NKJV)

⁴⁰ Him God raised up on the third day, and showed Him openly,

1 Corinthians 15:4 New King James Version (NKJV)

⁴ and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,