Featured Is Mattew 12:40 Employing Common Jewish Idiomatic Language?

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Mat 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.

There is nothing incomplete in this verse, no need to assume anything than what it says

#'s 2-6 and 6 are wrong, based on an assumption that #1 is wrong.
There is no reason to look for a different meaning to reconcile the days in the tomb. There is not a discrepancy .

Any partial day example noted does not fit this narrative.

It is easily explained in several sites. Try this one, I just found it LAST DAYS of Jesus Timeline

LAST DAYS of Jesus Timeline

 

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Matthew 27:62-64 NLT
The next day, on the Sabbath, the leading priests and Pharisees went to see Pilate. [63] They told him, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver once said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise from the dead.’ [64] So we request that you seal the tomb until the third day. This will prevent his disciples from coming and stealing his body and then telling everyone he was raised from the dead! If that happens, we’ll be worse off than we were at first.”

The way the Pharisees interpreted what Jesus said seems to indicate that the resurrection would happen prior to the end of three days and not after three days.

I think this is the way most interpreted what Jesus said.

 

It directly pertains to your op.

 

Allow me to draw the lines then.

I’m assuming that you don’t believe that the writer of the gospel of Matthew is a liar who is just making things up.

The Pharisees are in opposition to Jesus and want to make sure that hisprophecy will not come true. They were there and knew what Jesus had said publically. The Pharasees wanted to make sure the people knew that what he said did not come true. The Pharasees were jews and therefore knew the most common way what Jesus said would be interpreted.

Knowing that the Pharasees knew what Jesus said and understood how the Jewish people would interprete what he said, they would ask Pilate to seal the tomb accordingly.

The Pharisees asked Pilate to seal the tomb until the third day. If the most common interpretation was after 72 hours, they would have asked Pilate to seal the tomb until the fourth or even the fifth day. The enemies of Jesus confirm the most common interpretation of what Jesus said.