When jonah was on the belly of the whale he spent 3 days and 3 nights there and prayed. was he dead or alive?

Question

if Jesus says:

Matthew 12:38-40 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Him, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from You." But He answered and said to them, "An evil and adulterous generation craves for a sign; and yet no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet; for just as JONAH WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE BELLY OF THE FISH, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."

and he says he would be like Jonah does it not make sense that Jesus would be alive?

if so then he did not really died. since when a body is resurrected according to both Jesus and paul the body is spirit not human flesh and bone.. By when Jesus saw his disciples he even sat down to eat (a resurrected body would not need food now would it?

Because if you say like Jonah to me and I speak English it means you will do exactly like Jonah and Jonah was alive cause dead people can't pray no????

Unless my English is so poor that I can not understand like and unlike... waooo my post has gone with almost no answers :(

Damn it people no extra answer the question was JONAH DEAD OR A LIVE??? SIMPLE QUESTION!

Excalibur if Jonah is alive (and that is the correct answer) then so was Jesus!

Thanks God night guys!

Sorry Bro Dead people do not PRAY! Read the Book of Jonah only one page (I am sure it will not take you long to read :)

Thank you Mr. Pop that is exactly the point Jesus was also alive! Either Jesus (PBUH) lies or the Chrurch does!

Simple people was he like Jonah alive or unlike Jonah not a live and if he was like Jonah then
1- he was a live
2- he would have his own body .

read the answer to the question jesus gives about the woman with the seven husbands.... Either Jesus lies or you do!

Elaine apparently you too can't speak English hon, that is exactly what I am saying LOL READ THE DAMN question!

Annie you used I believe which means that is your own thought, LOL NICEEEEEEE. So you say Jesus is lying when he said he would be like Jonah. Then where the hell did the spirit of Jonah go? to paradise?. Jonah was alive and so was Jesus. Else why would Jesus Lie? either you lie or he those and I tend to believe Jesus more than anyone else here LOL!

Sheol is "deepest darkness." as per the book of Psalms! How can the hrebrew tanak speak of heaven or hell if the Jews of the time did not believe in such things????? So Noe is not death is "deepest Darkness" cause you can not see inside the whale!

Jonah 2 (New International Version)

1 From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the

LORD his God. 2 He said:
"In my distress I called to the LORD,
and he answered me.
From the depths of the grave [a] I called for help,
and you listened to my cry.

Jonah 2 (King James Version)

1Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,

2And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.

Answer 1

He was alive and so was Jesus. This sign which Jesus gave them contradicts with what Christians believe that Jesus was dead. Why would Jesus contradict himself?

Answer 2

Jonah was alive physically in the belly of the great fish, he was separated from God by being in the belly of the fish.
Jesus was dead physically and was separated from God. His spirit was still alive. Jesus was trying to tell His disciples that He would be in the ground for 3 nights and 3 days and thus, be separated from them and God for this period of time.

Answer 3

*sigh*.....ok, had to go a reread it..... Jonah was very much alive.... this is the supernatural we are talking about..... and as for Jesus, I believe this is when he went down into paradise in spirit form, while his flesh was in the tomb, which is where the OT saints were before the cross and talked with them and brought them into Heaven........ IF you have read the Bible you will know that after Jesus' death, many saw the OT saints walking the streets, it says the sea and graves gave up their dead....... IF you know the Bible, paradise referred to the center of the earth, one side was for saints the other was for enemies of God, there was a division between them...... NOW there is Heaven which is with the Father and Hell..... READ and study ..........go in peace........ God bless
PS...... and where is it stated that our resurrected bodies will not eat ?? and when Jesus /God ate with the apostles it was NOT the first time he had eaten with man..... He also ate meat with, I think it was, Abraham.......PSS.. maybe Wefmiester is right, I guess I need to study this a little closer.... hmmmmmm

Answer 4

Jonah was alive when he prayed inside the belly of the great fish.
The Lord Jesus actually died and rose again, a fact that was predicted and came true, and which is reiterated throughout the New Testament.

Are you missing out on the benefit of that fact?

Answer 5

I am really inclined to believe that he actually died, although the Bible doesn't say that clearly. Be careful when seeking to understand ananalogy not to take it too far. The point Christ made was that as Jonah was 3 days and nights so would Christ be, as a sign of His deity. To try and draw other analogies out of the story of jonah might not be accurate.

Answer 6

Sweetie, these are all just little stories of a groups of starving stone age shepherds living in the middle east... a terrible time to live then , and still a terrible time to live there now... It's just fairy tales, like Hansel, and Gretel, the big bad wolf, Cinderella, and tons of other things handed down as folk lore... Stay in school, and take some classes at your jr. college on history of religions, comparative religion, and the bible as history....

Jonah is one account could have been alive, and in one translated several years later, dead.... get it?

Answer 7

After being thrown overboard which grow to be desperate by ability of the crewmen "casting a lot" (rolling the bones or cube), Jonah survived in the sea for 3 days by ability of treading water. by way of exhaustion, Jonah grew to become hallucinogenic and imagined that he grow to be swallowed by ability of a huge fish upon which he prayed and grow to be then spat out. Hallucination by ability of way of exhaustion is lucid and until the sufferer is familiar with approximately this scientific situation, he will in all probability have faith that it incredibly occurred.

Answer 8

Jonah died and was resurrected by God after three days.

Answer 9

Actually the Bible suggests he was dead:

"Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the stomach of the fish,
and he said,
"I called out of my distress to the LORD,
And He answered me
I cried for help from the depth of Sheol;
You heard my voice.
"For You had cast me into the deep,
Into the heart of the seas,
And the current engulfed me
All Your breakers and billows passed over me.
"So I said, 'I have been expelled from Your sight
Nevertheless I will look again toward Your holy temple.'
"Water encompassed me to the point of death
The great deep engulfed me,
Weeds were wrapped around my head.
"I descended to the roots of the mountains
The earth with its bars was around me forever,
But You have brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.
"While I was fainting away,
I remembered the LORD,
And my prayer came to You,
Into Your holy temple.
"Those who regard vain idols
Forsake their faithfulness,
But I will sacrifice to You
With the voice of thanksgiving
That which I have vowed I will pay
Salvation is from the LORD."
Then the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah up onto the dry land. "

Notice that Jonah called to God "from the depth of Sheol".
Sheol is the place of departed spirits. Therefore it is reasonable to assume that Jonah had died, and God restored his spirit to his body and then had the fish disgorge him.

Answer 10

i think you're adding stuff that isn't there or even remotely inferred...jonah as in the belly of the whale, and Jesus was in the ground.

jonah wasn't dead, and ultimately, neither was Jesus.