The words
in the heart and the
earth are used together to indicate the suffering of hell(not dead)
He was not buried underground but in a tomb
Seeing Christ cannot die and the body of the Son man, Jesus was kept from corruption similar to Lazarus it would seem to be more the living hell as suffering unto death, not dead. The place of the wickedness of men suffering was great in the earth. In the earth does not mean buried
Matthew 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.
His suffering was compared to that of the parable with Jonas. Three days of a living hell or suffering . Christ did not offer a dead sacrifice but a living work.
Genesis 6:5And God saw that the wickedness of man was great
in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his
heart was only evil continually.
It was the kind of suffering that Cain the marked man was given to bear as a restless wanderer, no sabbath rest from his suffering. No thoughts of God only the imagination of his evil heart
The three day demonstration began in the garden when the father began pouring the cup of wrath. Heart of the earth must be the place of evil
Mark 14:34 And sait
h unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful
unto death: tarry ye here, and watch.
Again
unto death not a dead sacrifice.