Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are

hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it. Hey friends, welcome back to hearing the

Bible. My name is Alexa, and I'm here of my co-host, Beth. Hi, everyone.

So far this week, we have looked at Jonah 117, and now we want to turn to the New Testament and look at Matthew 1240, which reads,

For as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish three days and three nights,

so the son of man will be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

So Alexa, do you want to share your annotation takeaways?

Yes.

We have another short verse again.

And honestly, there isn't too much here to discuss that we're not going to talk about more in detail tomorrow.

But in general, we see a comparison happening in this verse.

Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly of the fish, and the son of man, which is Jesus, spent three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

The phrase heart of the earth connects to the belly of the fish because they are both deep places.

Jonah was taken into the depths of the sea inside the fish, and then Jesus was buried in the grave. Since we're just talking about what we're observing in today's passage, that is all that I'm going to say for now. Yeah, we definitely don't want to spoil all of tomorrow's fun. So is there anything else that we can talk about as we head into our Christ connection tomorrow? Yeah, I think just to go back to what we're talking about on Monday, Jonah's time in the fish was purposeful. And God providentially made it so that

Jonah spent that amount of time in the fish to point us forward to what will happen with Jesus.

So even years before Jesus came, God was orchestrating circumstances that would connect

to Jesus' own crucifixion and resurrection, which I think leads us to be in awe

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