951. Christ who was in the pains of death

Jonah 2:1-2, Mt 12:40, Acts 2:23-24

In the Old Testament, David, who was in danger of death due to threats from King Saul and his enemies, prayed earnestly to God. (2 Samuel 22:6-7)

2 Samuel 22:6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me; 7 In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.

In the Old Testament, the prophet Jonah was swallowed by a large fish and prayed earnestly to God in the belly of the fish. (Jonah 2:1)

Jonah 2:1 Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly,

In the Old Testament, the prophet Jonah being in the belly of a great fish for three days suggests that Christ died for us and would be in the tomb for three days. (Mt 12:40)

Mt 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.

Jesus, the Christ, died for us and rose from the dead on the third day. (Acts 2:23-24)

Acts 2:23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: 24 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.