Questions & Answers
Questions 315 (COD Page 1038)
Brother Branham, in Matthew 12:40, it says, “As Jonas was in–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.” How can it be that day that they say–today that they say He was put in the tomb on Friday evening and rose Sunday morning, making it only two nights and one day?
205 Now, if you notice, it said, “As it was” (you see?) in the days when Jonah was in the belly three days and three nights. It’s within three days and three nights, within that three days and three nights, because you can’t make the Scripture lie. The prophet said, “I will not suffer my holy One to see corruption, neither will I leave His soul in hell.” And corruption sets in the human body in seventy-two hours, which is three days and
three nights. Sometime within that three days and three nightsthat–He must come forth from the grave.
206 So being three days and three nights, don’t mean it has tobe exactly that; it’s sometime within that threedays and threenights. He had to come forth, because the prophecy cannot bebroken, that the...He could not see corruption and it would’vecorrupted if He’d stayed exactly that time.