Did Jesus descend into hell in his living body?

We see Jesus telling in Mtt 12:40: > For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so for three days and three nights the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth. The Creed of the Apostles says that Jesus descended into hell after his death before he would rise again on the third day. We also read in I Pet 3:18-20: > For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. After being made alive, he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits - to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. The mention of **after being made alive** by St. Peter in his epistle, prompts one to wonder whether Jesus'visit to the dead as mentioned in the Creed is the same as mentioned by Peter, and if it is, whether Jesus visited the ‘dead' in his living body, before his resurrection in front of the ‘living'? My question therefore is: **According to Catholic scholars, did Jesus descend into hell in his living body?**