1. The Messiah said that He would be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
2.There are those who believe in a 6th day of the week crucifixion/1st day of the week resurrection.
3. Some of those folks also believe that the "heart of the earth" is referring to the tomb.
4. However, a 6th day of the week crucifixion/first day of the week resurrection allows for only 2 night times to be involved with His time in the tomb.
5. To explain the lack of a 3rd night, some of those who believe that the 'heart of the earth' is referring to the tomb have said that the Messiah was using common figure of speech/colloquial language of the period.
6. However, to legitimately say that it was common, they would have to know of other instances where such usage was actually employed, i.e., examples where a daytime or a night time was forecast or said to be involved with an event when no part of the daytime or no part of the night time could occur.
7. Since I'm not aware of any, I'm simply curious to know what examples someone might be using in order to be able to say that the usage was common.
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