Matthew 12:40 – Jesus was dead and buried

For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. Matthew 12:40

Three days and three nights - It will be seen in the account of the resurrection of Christ that he was in the grave but two nights and a part of three days. See Matthew 18:6. It was a maxim, also, among the Jews, in computing time, that a part of a day was to be received as the whole.

Three days and three nights - Our Lord rose from the grave on the day but one after his crucifixion: so that, in the computation in this verse, the part of the day on which he was crucified, and the part of that on which he rose again, are severally estimated as an entire day; and this, no doubt, exactly corresponded to the time in which Jonah was in the belly of the fish. Three days and three nights, according to this Jewish method of reckoning, included any part of the first day; the whole of the following night; the next day and its night; and any part of the succeeding or third day.

Jesus bore our sins on the cross, died to it and rose again without sin. Our sins were all on His body and having died to sin, we now can reign in life through Jesus Christ our resurrected Lord and Savior :)

Give our Lord Jesus all the praise!