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No?

How about this?  'The stomach of the earth'...?  It's the same word in Hebrew....  The three days and three nights that Jonah was in the belly, or stomach, or "heart" of the fish.  And this 'place' that Jonah found himself, he calls "Sheol"  -in other words, there is 'an-other' word to express the same concept.

Heart, belly, stomach, Sheol, underworld, place of death, even womb.... or grave, or tomb.... you pick.

And we know that Jesus was talking about the same thing because he explicitly states he's talking about the very same thing... (Matt 12)

--for just as JONAH WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE BELLY OF THE SEA MONSTER, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

I don't think it's so much a matter of timing, as much as it is about location, location, location.  Hosea 6 prophesied that the people would be revived after two days.... on the third day.

It could be as simple a comparison as if we were telling a story and said something like "a few days later"  or "sometime later"  - as opposed to a specific time such as if you were to say- "later that same day" or "the very next day."

Why do you ask?  What significance do you apportion to this?

Hos 6:2..(KJV) "After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight."

A Prophecy through His own words....As one day of the Lord is to us a thousand years, two days of being buried in the grave will fall away to being resurrected in the third day. Notice it says in the third day. This is likely a reference to the Rapture that can happen at any time now that two days or two thousand years have been fulfilled. 

Having said this, time is very short for the End of days is nearer to the beginning of the end.

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The three days and three nights in the grave are for real in that the crucifixion happened around 3 PM on a Wendnesday afternoon and was buried before 6PM, the beginning of Thursday, A Feast Day which was considered a Sabbath. Therefore, nothing could happen on this day even travel to the grave site or more than 1/4 mile away. He did indeed arise on the third day after three days and three nights.

Thanks for listening

Blade