Now, if you notice, it said, “As it was” (you see?) in the days when Jonah was in the belly three days and three nights. It’s within three days and three nights, within that three days and three nights, because you can’t make the Scripture lie. The prophet said, “I will not suffer my holy One to see corruption, neither will I leave His soul in hell.” And corruption sets in the human body in seventy-two hours, which is three days and three nights. Sometime within that three days and three nights that He must come forth from the grave.

So being three days and three nights, don’t mean it has to be exactly that; it’s sometime within that three days and three nights. He had to come forth, because the prophecy cannot be broken, that the…He could not see corruption and it would’ve corrupted if He’d stayed exactly that time.

Questions and Answers #2, 1964-08-23, Jeffersonville, IN, §204