Ok, but we don’t know if Jonah was in three full 24 hour cycles or pieces of days. And Jesus was laid to rest as Sabbath (Friday night) was coming on.
I don’t mean to argue, just a friendly debate, my FRiend.
I can appreciate a 'friendly debate'. And I consider it my 'calling' to plant seeds of truth when the opportunity arises. And when one literally puts a seed in the soil, it is out of that individuals power as to whether or not the seed will germinate. I take Christ as His WORD, and of all the things Christ could have told the religious leadership in His day regarding the requested 'sign' was likening His time in the tomb to the same time Jonah spent in the whale's belly. And Christ was specific in the length of time, 3 days and 3 nights.
My guess is that Christ used Jonah for two purposes and possibly more. To those of that time that did not really believe that Jonah actually was swallowed up by a specially created creature, to be spewed out to the peoples that worshiped the fish 'god' Dagon. And to those yet to come who believe that Jonah's 3 days and 3 nights in the whale's belly was only an allegory and did not literally happen.
There are a couple of Scriptures that come to mind that cause me to come to this conclusion. First would be Paul writing in ICorinthians 10 I am not going to type the whole chapter but point specifically to verse 11
Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples, (examples): and they are written for our admonition, (warning) upon whom the ends of the world (age) are come.
Solomon writes in Ecclesiastes 1:9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, 'See, this is new?' it hath been already of *old* time, which was before us.
There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
BUT we now have the WORD, the script by which we can know to the level we are given understanding the replay of types that came before us. Jonah was the 'type' that Christ gave as the 'sign' for what He was about to accomplish for any who WILL believe in and upon Him.
To me there is not anything to debate regarding 'time', because to me then I am questioning whether Christ knew how to keep time.