• Jonah 1:17 — Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
• Jonah 2:10 — And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
• Matt 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.
• Matt 12:41 — The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.

5 Christian traditions affirm this interpretation.

• Roman Catholic · Catholic
• Evangelical · Evangelical
• Eastern Orthodox · Orthodox
• Patristic · Patristic
• Reformed · Reformed

18 passages from 9 historic works cite scripture this interpretation depends on.

• Catechism of the Catholic Church · 5 passages
• Against Heresies (Adversus Haereses) · 3 passages
• Homilies on Matthew · 3 passages
• Homilies on the Epistle to the Romans · 2 passages
• Antiquities of the Jews · 1 passage
• Homilies on the First Epistle to the Corinthians · 1 passage
• Against the Arians (Orationes contra Arianos) · 1 passage
• On Christian Doctrine (De Doctrina Christiana) · 1 passage
• City of God · 1 passage