“For 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 . “Just as Jonah was cast in the belly of the whale, likewise the Lord Jesus, descended voluntarily to where the invisible whale of death is, to force it to throw up those it had swallowed. As is written (Hosea 13:14) “I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death.”” – St. Cyril of Jerusalem