Whenever the three days and three nights of Matthew 12:40 is brought up in a discussion with 6th day crucifixion folks, they frequently argue that it is a Jewish idiom for counting any part of a day as a whole day. I wonder if anyone has documentation that shows that the phrase x days and xnights was ever used in the first century or before when it absolutely didnt include at least parts of the x days and at least parts of the x nights?
Mat 12:40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale,
so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Gen_1:5 God called the
light “day”, and t
he darkness he called “night”. There was
evening and there was morning, the first day.
Gen_1:8 God called the expanse “sky”. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
Gen_1:13 There was evening and there was morning, a third day.
Gen_1:14 God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky
to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;
Gen_1:16 God made the two great lights:
the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light
to rule the night. He also made the stars.
Gen_1:18 and
to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
Gen_8:22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and
day and night will not cease.”
Exo_32:6
They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
Exo_40:38 For
the cloud of Yahweh was on the tabernacle by day, and there was
fire in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.
Lev_22:30 It shall be eaten on the same day;
you shall leave none of it until the morning. I am Yahweh.
Num_11:32 The people rose up all
that day, and all of
that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails. He who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them all out for themselves around the camp.
Psa_121:6 The sun will not harm you
by day, nor the moon
by night.
Pro_7:9 in the twilight,
in the evening of the day, in the middle of
the night and in the darkness.
Ecc_8:16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that
neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),
Jhn_11:9 Jesus answered,
“Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
Rev_7:15 Therefore they are before the throne of God, they serve him
day and night in his temple. He who sits on the throne will spread his tabernacle over them.
Rev_8:12 The fourth angel sounded, and one third of the sun was struck, and one third of the moon, and one third of the stars; so that one third of them would be darkened, and
the day wouldn’t shine for one third of it, and the night in the same way.
Rev_12:10 I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God
day and night.
Rev_14:11 The smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever.
They have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.
Rev_20:10 The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented
day and night forever and ever.
Rev_21:25 Its gates will in no way be shut by
day (for there will be no night there),
