Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book II/Part 25

25. That He should rise again from the dead on the third day.

In Hosea: &#8220;After two days He will revive us; we shall rise again on the third day.&#8221; Also in Exodus: &#8220;And the Lord said unto Moses, Go down and testify to the people, and sanctify them to-day and to-morrow; and let them wash their garments, and let them be prepared against the day after to-morrow. For on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai.&#8221; Also in the Gospel: &#8220;A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it but the sign of the prophet Jonas: for as Jonas was in the whale&#8217;s belly three days and three nights, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.&#8221;