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wparr
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He could have risen at 3pm Sat, making EXACTLY 72 hours.
Come On!!!! This assumption is ludicrous! It Jesus exited the tomb at 3pm on any day, why didn't it get noticed? 3pm on the Sabbath may have kept the Jews in their homes until Sunset, but what about the Guards and the sealing of the tomb and the watch put on by a Gentile Pilate?
Why did his rising have to be SEEN.
In His ressurected body he was able to appear and dissapear
Luk 24:31 Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Him; and He vanished from their sight.
Luk 24:35-37
35 They began to relate their experiences
36 While they were telling these things, He Himself stood in their midst and *said to them, "Peace be to you."
37 But they were startled and frightened and thought that they were seeing a spirit.
John 20:19
(19) So when it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and *said to them, "Peace be with you."
So why is "this assumption is ludicrous!"????
He could walk out of that tomb UNSEEN at ANY hour unseen, if it happened at 2am then why by YOUR assertion didn't the guards see it?
The time line I've put forth show 3 days and 3 nights (NOT 4)
It puts Yahshua rising on the THIRD day
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I stand in TOTAL agreement with all that becauseHelives and Linda posted about the great ***** who calls itself The RCC.
I won't repeat the same issues, and there are SO SO many more.
Why do I call the RCC (NOT the decieved followers within, but the entitiy and leadership) a great ***** ?
All throughout the OT, God WARNS His people NOT to bring pagan practices, rituals, forms, into His bed.
And Yahweh put up with (for a limited time) this time and time again.
He also judged the people and poured out His wrath on them for this great evil.
We (The Body of Christ) are Christ's BRIDE, yet the rcc keeps dragging in pagan practices and rituals into the relationship bed - therefor DEFILING what God declared Holy.
I was in Haiti doing work, there the rcc blended itself with voodoo (in the Name of God and calls it reaching out) and now you have crosses all over with skulls ontop.
I grieve for the countless souls that are deceived into following religion and traditions (that have NO power to save and set free) rather than developing a REAL relationship with the Father, and His Son Yahshua
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The only trouble is that wparr, Linda, and becauseHelives all have an Ax to grind against the Catholic Church and for reasons Unknown to me, it does not sit well in my spirit.
Well it may not sit well with YOUR spirit, but the rcc does not sit well with Yahweh Elohim's Spirit.
Reason unknown to you is because it is not based on TRUTH, but rather a flesh response.
Sorry, big red flags go up, and warning bells sound when I hear that type talk like "sit well with my spirit"
Heard it used in new-age and wiccan circles.
I've heard claiming prophets (though false) use "my spirit says" claiming it was of God
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but that makes 4 "days" and 4 "nights"; that's against the Jonah statement that He'd be in 3 "days" and 3 "nights".
BA, I'm not a math whiz, but even, I can count to 4. ![[spiny]](graemlins/spiny.gif)
I agree. 3 full 24 hour days would make Jesus to rise on the 4th day.
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Linda and BecauseHelives:
I don't want to engage in a debate about the Catholic church on this thread.
But many protestant denominations also have persecuted the saints.
I don't perceive the statements about the church in Revelation as being about the Catholic Church alone.
I was brought up to distain all things Catholic.
I once asked a sincere follower of the Catholic faith why they believed that the "dead" saints could pray for them in heaven, and why they asked the "dead" saints to pray for them.
He said; "Just as we ask other living believers to pray for us such as in prayer groups, etc, this concept does not change after death of the saint to them, because they truly believe that the Saint has Eternal Life and is just as Alive in death as they were alive in Christ while breathing air on this earth."
I was blessed by his answer.
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He could have risen at 3pm Sat, making EXACTLY 72 hours.
Come On!!!! This assumption is ludicrous! It Jesus exited the tomb at 3pm on any day, why didn't it get noticed? 3pm on the Sabbath may have kept the Jews in their homes until Sunset, but what about the Guards and the sealing of the tomb and the watch put on by a Gentile Pilate?
The Romans would have been up and about on the Jewish Sabbath and also the Jews themselves could have gone out after sunset. I don't think the regular people of that time just went to bed for the night at 3 pm.
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Linda I have read many of your previous posts about the Catholic church and am aware you feel the Catholic church is all bad. You new post certainly illuminates my statement of "an axe to grind."
No offense intended to you, but It's just the way it is.
BecauseHelives also has validated my assertion.
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The only trouble is that wparr, Linda, and becauseHelives all have an Ax to grind against the Catholic Church and for reasons Unknown to me, it does not sit well in my spirit.
Whose quote is this? I could not find it in the thread. Who said this please?
It matters not.
I do not have an axe to grind with the Roman Church. I know that God is not mocked and that vengence is HIS and the Roman Church will answer for her sins. But I do have many issues with her, and the main one being that she calls herself THE Church, while she blasphemes MY LORD and Savior.
Here are my many issues with her:
First, It seems to me that the Spirit of Christ has issue with the Roman Church:
Revelation 2:20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
Revelation 2:6 But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
Revelation 2:15 So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.
2. More than 50 million killed by her in the name of Christ in Europe alone from 606 till the 19th Century, another 20 million in Spain (BHL's 12 million is very conservative)
3. The Crusades
4. Literally thousands upon thousands of Native American children stripped from their homes and their families in the name of Jesus and forced in to orphanages and boarding schools where they were presecuted and brutalized for speaking their natives tongues and forced to become Catholic.
5. The souls of millions around the world and in this country who have gone to or will go to hell having through Catholic missions been taught another Gospel and another Jesus.
6. Eccumenism to include the honoring of the Koran which states that Allah has no son and the statement that Isalm worships and adores the Almighty God.
The Almighty God of Abraham is NOT Allah!
7. The marriage of church to state by Constantine; the pollution of the church with countless kinds of paganisms, witchcraft, and things from the Babylonian religion.
8. this list of apostate doctrines and dogma :
TRADITION EQUAL WITH SCRIPTURE
80 Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture, then, are bound closely together and communicate one with the other.
82 As a result the Church, to whom the transmission and interpretation of Revelation is entrusted, "does not derive her certainty about all revealed truths from the holy Scriptures alone. Both Scripture and Tradition must be accepted and honoured with equal sentiments of devotion and reverence.
BIBLE INTERPRETATION THE SOLE RIGHT OF POPE AND BISHOPS
100 The task of interpreting the Word of God authentically has been entrusted solely to the Magisterium of the Church, that is, to the Pope and to the bishops in communion with him.
MARY, SINLESS, PERPETUAL VIRGIN, MOTHER OF GOD, QUEEN OF HEAVEN, CO- REDEMPTRESS WITH CHRIST
491 Through the centuries the Church has become ever more aware that Mary, "full of grace" through God, was redeemed from the moment of her conception. That is what the dogma of the Immaculate Conception confesses, as Pope Pius IX proclaimed in 1854...
494 ... As St. Irenaeus says, "Being obedient she became the cause of salvation for herself and for the whole human race." ...
495 ... the Church confesses that Mary is truly "Mother of God" (Theotokos).
508 From among the descendants of Eve, God chose the Virgin Mary to be the mother of his Son. "Full of grace," Mary is "the most excellent fruit of redemption" (SC 103): from the first instant of her conception, she was totally preserved from the stain of original sin and she remained pure from all personal sin throughout her life.
964 Mary's role in the Church is inseparable from her union with Christ and flows directly from it. "This union of the mother with the Son in the work of salvation is made manifest from the time of Christ's virginal conception up to his death"; it is made manifest above all at the hour of his Passion. ... enduring with her only begotten Son the intensity of his suffering, joining herself with his sacrifice in her mother's heart, and lovingly consenting to the immolation of this victim, born of her ...
966 "Finally the Immaculate Virgin, preserved free from all stain of original sin, when the course of her earthly life was finished, was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory, and exalted by the Lord as Queen over all things, so that she might be the more fully conformed to her Son ..." The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin is a singular participation in her Son's Resurrection ... "In giving birth you kept your virginity... You conceived the living God and, by your prayers, will deliver our souls from death" (Byzantine Liturgy, Troparion, Feast of the Dormition, August 15th.).
968 "In a wholly singular way she cooperated by her obedience, faith, hope and burning charity in the Saviour's work of restoring supernatural life to souls. For this reason she is a mother to us in the order of grace."
969 "... Taken up to heaven she did not lay aside this saving office but by her manifold intercession continues to bring us gifts of eternal salvation. ... Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the Church under the titles of Advocate, Helper, Benefactress, and Mediatrix."
ROSARY AND PRAYERS TO MARY
971 "The Church's devotion to the Blessed Virgin is intrinsic to Christian worship." The Church rightly honours "the Blessed Virgin with special devotion. ..." The liturgical feasts dedicated to the Mother of God and Marian prayer, such as the rosary, an "epitome of the whole Gospel," express this devotion to the Virgin Mary.
FULLNESS OF SALVATION ONLY THROUGH THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
The Second Vatican Council's Decree on Ecumenism explains: "For it is through Christ's Catholic Church alone, which is the universal help toward salvation, that the fullness of the means of salvation can be obtained. It was to the apostolic college alone, of which Peter is the head, that we believe that our Lord entrusted all the blessings of the New Covenant, in order to establish on earth the one Body of Christ into which all those should be fully incorporated who belong in any way to the People of God."
846 Basing itself on Scripture and Tradition, the Council teaches that the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation ... thereby affirmed at the same time the necessity of the Church which men enter through Baptism as through a door. Hence they could not be saved who, knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ, would refuse either to enter it or to remain in it.
ALL GRACE COMES THROUGH THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
819 Christ's Spirit uses these Churches and ecclesial communities as means of salvation, whose power derives from the fullness of grace and truth that Christ has entrusted to the Catholic Church. All these blessings come from Christ and lead to him, and are in themselves calls to "Catholic unity."
834 Particular Churches are fully catholic through their communion with one of them, the Church of Rome "which presides in charity." "For with this church, by reason of its pre-eminence, the whole Church, that is the faithful everywhere, must necessarily be in accord" (St. Irenaeus, Adv. Haeres, 3,3,2:PG 7/1,849; cf. Vatican Council I: DS 3057).
NO CHRISTIAN UNITY APART FROM THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
820 Christ bestowed unity on his Church from the beginning. This unity, we believe, subsists in the Catholic Church as something she can never lose ... The desire to recover the unity of all Christians is a gift of Christ and a call of the Holy Spirit.
SALVATION INCLUDES THE MUSLIMS
841 The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind's judge on the last day.
SUPREMACY OF THE POPE
882 The Pope, Bishop of Rome and Peter's successor, "is the perpetual and visible source and foundation of the unity both of the bishops and of the whole company of the faithful." "For the Roman Pontiff, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ, and as pastor of the entire Church has full, supreme and universal power over the whole Church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered."
891 The Roman Pontiff, head of the college of bishops, enjoys this infallibility in virtue of his office, when, as supreme pastor and teacher of all the faithful -- who confirms his brethren in the faith -- he proclaims by a definitive act a doctrine pertaining to faith or morals. ... The infallibility promised to the Church is also present in the body of bishops when, together with Peter's successor, they exercise the supreme Magisterium," above all in an Ecumenical Council. ... This infallibility extends as far as the deposit of divine Revelation itself.
PRAYERS OF THE DEAD
956 "Being more closely united to Christ, those who dwell in heaven fix the whole Church more firmly in holiness. ... They do not cease to intercede with the Father for us, as they proffer the merits which they acquired on earth through the one mediator between God and men, Christ Jesus. ... So by their fraternal concern is our weakness greatly helped."
PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD
958 "In full consciousness of this communion of the whole Mystical Body of Jesus Christ, the Church in its pilgrim members, from the very earliest days of the Christian religion, has honoured with great respect the memory of the dead; and `because it is a holy and a wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be loosed from their sins' she offers her suffrages for them." Our prayer for them is capable not only of helping them, but also of making their intercession for us effective.
SALVATION THROUGH BAPTISM
1263 By Baptism all sins are forgiven, original sin and all personal sins, as well as all punishment for sin.
1257 The Lord himself affirms that Baptism is necessary for salvation. ... The Church does not know of any means other than Baptism that assures entry into eternal beatitude; this is why she takes care not to neglect the mission she has received from the Lord to see that all who can be baptized are "reborn of water and the Spirit." God has bound salvation to the sacrament of Baptism...
1265 Baptism not only purifies from all sins, but also makes the neophyte "a new creature," an adopted son of God, who has become a "partaker of the divine nature," member of Christ and co-heir with him, and a temple of the Holy Spirit.
1267 ... From the baptismal fonts is born the one People of God of the New Covenant...
PENANCE NECESSARY FOR SALVATION
980 It is through the sacrament of Penance that the baptized can be reconciled with God and with the Church: "Penance has rightly been called by the holy Fathers `a laborious kind of baptism.' This sacrament of Penance is necessary for salvation for those who have fallen after Baptism, just as Baptism is necessary for salvation for those who have not yet been reborn" (Council of Trent (1551): DS 1672; cf. St. Gregory of Nazianzus, Oratio 39, 17: PG 36,356).
THE CHURCH CAN FORGIVE SINS
982 There is no offense, however serious, that the Church cannot forgive. ... Christ who died for all men desires that in his Church the gates of forgiveness should always be open to anyone who turns away from sin.
PURGATORY
1030 All who die in God's grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation, but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven.
1031 The Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned. The Church formulated her doctrine of faith on Purgatory especially at the Council of Florence and Trent. The tradition of the Church, by reference to certain texts of Scripture, speaks of a cleansing fire. "As for certain lesser faults, we must believe that, before the Final Judgment, there is a purifying fire."
INDULGENCES AND GOOD WORKS FOR THE DEAD
1032 From the beginning the Church has honoured the memory of the dead and offered prayers in suffrage for them, above all the Eucharistic sacrifice, so that, thus purified, they may attain the beatific vision of God. The Church also commends almsgiving, indulgences and works of penance undertaken on behalf of the dead.
SACRAMENTS AND LITURGY COMMUNICATE GRACE
1084 By the action of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit they [the sacraments] make present efficaciously the grace that they signify.
1131 The sacraments are efficacious signs of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us.
SACRAMENTS NECESSARY FOR SALVATION
1129 The Church affirms that for believers the sacraments of the New Covenant are necessary for salvation. ... The fruit of the sacramental life is that the Spirit of adoption makes the faithful partakers in the divine nature by uniting them in a living union with the only Son, the Saviour.
INFANTS BORN AGAIN THROUGH BAPTISM
1250 Born with a fallen human nature and tainted by original sin, children also have need of the new birth in Baptism to be freed from the power of darkness and brought into the realm of the freedom of the children of God ... The Church and the parents would deny a child the priceless grace of becoming a child of God were they not to confer Baptism shortly after birth.
THE MASS A RE-SACRIFICE OF CHRIST
1414 As sacrifice, the Eucharist is also offered in reparation for the sins of the living and the dead and to obtain spiritual or temporal benefits from God.
1365 Because it is the memorial of Christ's Passover, the Eucharist is also a sacrifice. ... In the Eucharist Christ gives us the very body which he gave up for us on the cross, the very blood which he "poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins."
1367 The sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are one single sacrifice: ... "In this divine sacrifice which is celebrated in the Mass, the same Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross is contained and offered in an unbloody manner."
THE MASS IS A CONVERSION OF BREAD AND WINE INTO THE VERY CHRIST
1376 The Council of Trent summarizes the Catholic faith by declaring "... by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood. This change the holy Catholic Church has fittingly and properly called transubstantiation."
1413 By the consecration the transubstantion of the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ is brought about. Under the consecrated species of bread and wine Christ himself, living and glorious, is present in a true, real and substantial manner: his Body and his Blood, with his soul and his divinity (cf. Council of Trent: DS 1640; 1651).
1374 ... In the most blessed sacrament of the Eucharist "the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ and, therefore, the whole Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained."
PRIEST HAS THE POWER TO CONVERT BREAD AND WINE INTO CHRIST
1375 It is by the conversion of the bread and wine into Christ's body and blood that Christ becomes present in this sacrament. ... The priest, in the role of Christ, pronounces these words, but their power and grace are God's. This is my body, he says. This word transforms the things offered. ... The power of the blessing prevails over that of nature, because by the blessing nature itself is changed.
MASS CONDUCTED IN COMMUNION WITH THE DEAD
1370 ... In communion with and commemorating the Blessed Virgin Mary and all the saints, the Church offers the Eucharistic sacrifice.
ELEMENTS OF THE MASS TO BE WORSHIPPED AND CARRIED IN PROCESSIONS
1418 Because Christ himself is present in the sacrament of the altar he is to be honoured with the worship of adoration.
1378 Worship of the Eucharist. In the liturgy of the Mass we express our faith in the real presence of Christ under the species of bread and wine by, among other ways, genuflecting or bowing deeply as a sign of adoration of the Lord. ... reserving the consecrated hosts with the utmost care, exposing them to the solemn veneration of the faithful, and carrying them in procession.
ALL SINS MUST BE CONFESSED TO A PRIEST
1493 One who desires to obtain reconciliation with God and with the Church, must confess to a priest all the unconfessed grave sins he remembers after having carefully examined his conscience. The confession of venial faults, without being necessary in itself, is nevertheless strongly recommended by the Church.
1456 All mortal sins of which penitents after a diligent self-examination are conscious must be recounted by them in confession, even if they are most secret and have been committed against the last two precepts of the Decalogue. ... those who fail to do so and knowingly withhold some, place nothing before the divine goodness for remission through the mediation of the priest, `for if the sick person is too ashamed to show his wound to the doctor, the medicine cannot heal what it does not know.'
1497 Individual and integral confession of grave sins followed by absolution remains the only ordinary means of reconciliation with God and with the Church.
FORGIVENESS OF SINS AND ESCAPE FROM PURGATORY THROUGH INDULGENCES
1471 An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under certain prescribed conditions through the action of the Church which, as the minister of redemption, dispenses and applies with authority the treasury of the satisfactions of Christ and the saints. ... Indulgences may be applied to the living or the dead.
1478 An indulgence is obtained through the Church who ... intervenes in favour of individual Christians and opens for them the treasury of the merits of Christ and the saints to obtain from the Father of mercies the remission of the punishments due for their sins. ...
1479 Since the faithful departed now being purified are also members of the same communion of saints, one way we can help them is to obtain indulgences for them, so that the temporal punishments due for their sins may be remitted.
SALVATION THROUGH THE GOOD WORKS OF THE "SAINTS"
1475 In this wonderful exchange, the holiness of one profits others ... Thus recourse to the communion of saints lets the contrite sinner be more promptly and efficaciously purified of the punishments for sin.
1476 We also call these spiritual goods of the communion of saints the Church's treasury....
1477 This treasury includes as well the prayers and good works of the Blessed Virgin Mary. They are truly immense, unfathomable and even pristine in their value before God. In the treasury, too, are the prayers and good works of all the saints. ... In this way they attained their own salvation and at the same time cooperated in saving their brothers in the unity of the Mystical Body.
VENERATION OF RELICS
1674 Besides sacramental liturgy and sacramentals, catechesis must take into account the forms of piety and popular devotions among the faithful ... such as the veneration of relics, visits to sanctuaries, pilgrimages, processions, the stations of the cross, religious dances, the rosary, medals, etc.
VENERATION OF IMAGES
2131 Basing itself on the mystery of the incarnate Word the seventh ecumenical council at Nicaea (787) justified against the iconoclasts the veneration of icons -- of Christ, but also of the Mother of God, the angels and all the saints. By becoming incarnate, the Son of God introduced a new "economy" of images.
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The only trouble is that wparr, Linda, and becauseHelives all have an Ax to grind against the Catholic Church and for reasons Unknown to me, it does not sit well in my spirit.
I can't speak for Linda, and wparr...
but yes I do have an ax to grind against the “Roman” Catholic Church and anyone who knows anything about Church History, that love the True Church and The Messiah Yeshua should also have an ax to grind.
The Roman Catholic Church has killed millions in the name of Christ, but it is the Anti-Christ that is and always has been over the Roman Catholic Church.
Hitler only killed 6 million Jews...
The Roman Catholic Church killed 12 million Believer in Yeshua that would not submit to the teachings of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church in the Spanish Inquisition alone.
Like the Homosexual, I love the sinner but hate the sin…...I love the people that are blinded by the enemy, trapped in the Roman Catholic System, but I hate and appose everything the Roman Catholic Church stands for and all the traditions given to us by Her (the Roman Catholic Church). … i.e. Easter, Christmas, Good Friday, All Saints Day, and many other pagan rituals.
Many I love and respect are still blinded to the Truth but soon the Anti-Christ will be revealed, I hope it not to late at that time to repent and get right.
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Strive to enter in at the strait gate:for many, I say unto you will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. ( Luke 13:24 )
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He could have risen at 3pm Sat, making EXACTLY 72 hours.
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3 days: Thursday, Friday, Saturday
so what happened to Wednesday as a day since he died at 3 pm on Wednesday if you make Passover from sunset Tuesday to sunset Wednesday?
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also, if you make Passover from sunset Tuesday to sunset Wednesday, you have Jesus in the grave 4 "day" portions and 4 "night" portions, instead of 3 "day" portions and 3 "night" portions.
Nope
3 days: Thursday, Friday, Saturday
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3 nights: Wednesday Night, Thursday Night, Friday Night
He could have risen at 3pm Sat, making EXACTLY 72 hours.
Could Yahshua have risen BEFORE that Sabbath was over?
SURE - He healed on the Sabbath didn't He.
Look at what Yahshua says here.
Matthew 12:11-12
(11) And He said to them, "What man is there among you who has a sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will he not take hold of it and lift it out?
(12) "How much more valuable then is a man than a sheep! So then, it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath."
Could this ALSO be pointing to His Ressusection???
He WAS The Lamb of God
He was lifted out of the ground
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but that makes 4 "days" and 4 "nights"; that's against the Jonah statement that He'd be in 3 "days" and 3 "nights".
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John 19:31
The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was a high day) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
Somewhere we have to account for this high day sabbath in John.
Wednesday – Passover – non Sabbath – Yahshua sacrificed.
Thursday – Feast of Unleavened Bread - Sabbath
Friday – non Sabbath day – Mary, Mary and Salome go to the market to buy spices, go home and prepare them.
Saturday – Sabbath day
Sunday, at first dawn – women go to tomb – Yahshua already resurrected.
Accounted for
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John mentions the high day, but the others possibly do not and skip right to the weeekly sabbath?
god bless, BORN AGAIN
Remember John was written AFTER the other Gospel accounts were.
John didn't repeat alot of what was in Matthew, Mark, & Luke - But he did CLARIFY and provide more details to prove that Yahshua was The Messiah.
John 20:31
but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name.
From Commentary:
THE CHARACTER of John's Gospel, written after his fellow apostles had gone to rest, differs in some respects from the others.
It alone follows the chronological order of events, gives an account of the Judæan ministry of our Lord, shows that his ministry lasted for over three years, gives the account of the resurrection of Lazarus and of the wonderful discourse to the disciples the night that he was betrayed.
It omits much with which the church was already familiar through the other Gospels, presents much that they had not recorded, and recognizes certain false doctrines which had begun to be taught.
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also, if you make Passover from sunset Tuesday to sunset Wednesday, you have Jesus in the grave 4 "day" portions and 4 "night" portions, instead of 3 "day" portions and 3 "night" portions.
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John 19:31
The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was a high day) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
Somewhere we have to account for this high day sabbath in John.
So the day following Passover was a sabbath, which was the first day of Unleavened Bread.
But you think that if there were two sabbaths in a row it would have been stated more clearly?
I personally don't know about that; the high day or sabbath of Unleavened Bread was by NT times incorporated in with the Passover and all was called the Feast of Unleavened Bread by NT times.
Is it possible that John mentions the high day, but the others possibly do not and skip right to the weeekly sabbath to show when Mary and Magdalene bought the spices and went to the tomb?
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Yup, been to Israel twice.
Mark 16:1-2
(1) When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, so that they might come and anoint Him.
(2) Very early on the first day of the week, they *came to the tomb when the sun had risen.
Luke 23:54-24:1
(54) It was the preparation day, and the Sabbath was about to begin.
(55) Now the women who had come with Him out of Galilee followed, and saw the tomb and how His body was laid.
(56) Then they returned and prepared spices and perfumes. And on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
(24:1) But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared.
Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices
Then they returned and prepared spices and perfumes. And on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment
IF they bought the spices after Sat Sabbath was over, then how did they then go and rest on The Sabbath?
That's why the Thursday sacrifice theory doesn't work.
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John 19:31
The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was a high day) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
Mark 16:1
And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
The Mark 16 had to be the regular weekly sabbath from Friday sunset to Sat. sunset, which followed the high day of Unleavened Bread from Thurs sunset to Friday sunset.
so Passover was from Wednesday sunset to Thursday sunset. Jesus was crucified around 3 pm on Thursday of Passover.
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Where are you getting the shops opened at night for a couple hours??????????????????????????????????
You ever been in the East and Middle East? I have. That's how they do since ancient time.
If they bought the spices AFTER the Sabbath, then it must have been on Saturday night after sunset when the shops reopened.
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Where are you getting the shops opened at night for a couple hours??????????????????????????????????
COME ON
Mark 16:1
When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, so that they might come and anoint Him.
Buying the spices on Passover doesn't work either
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The Lord Yeshua died and rose again on the third day, as presented in graph form below:
• Crucifixion/death at 3 p.m., in day portion of
14th of Abib (Thursday day/afternoon)(Passover--non sabbath)........................... = 1st day
• In grave: evening/night portion of 15th of Abib
(Friday evening/night)(Feast of Unleavened Bread--high day--sabbath)...............= 1st night
• In grave: morning/day portion of 15th of Abib
(Friday day)(still high day--sabbath)......................................= 2nd day
• In grave: evening/night of 16th of Abib
(Saturday evening/night)(weekly sabbath)................................ = 2nd night
• In grave: morning/day portion of 16th of Abib
(Saturday day)(still weekly sabbath)............................ = 3rd day
• In grave and Resurrection: evening/night of 17th of Abib
(Sunday morning while yet dark)............................................= 3rd night
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Because AFTER they bought the spices, there was a SABBATH.
yes, that's true, so, eventhough the shops reopened after Saturday's sunset, they would not have bought the spices then.
The women must have bought the spices on Passover Day itself, since Jesus died around 3 p.m., once they saw that He was dead, they would have bought the spices on Passover Day between 3 pm and sunset for His burial. That was Thursday until sunset.
Then the next day was a High Day (the first day of Unleavened Bread) which was a sabbath and was Friday till sunset.
That was followed by the weekly sabbath, which was Saturday till sunset.
so that would work. as for the 3 days and 3 nights, I have shown how that works in the little chart in my previous post.
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Where do you get that the shops opened up again at night??
That was not the custom there till recently.
I thought you ment OUR Sunday night - sorry - my bad.
Thursday sacrifice Still doesn't satisfy:
Matthew 12:40
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.
Thursday sacrifice only gives 2 nights, not 3
Thursday sacrifice (and the major miracle of shops opening at night)Still doesn't satisfy:
Mark 16:1
When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, so that they might come and anoint Him.
AND
Luke 23:54-56
(54) It was the preparation day, and the Sabbath was about to begin.
(55) Now the women who had come with Him out of Galilee followed, and saw the tomb and how His body was laid.
(56) Then they returned and prepared spices and perfumes. And on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
Because AFTER the bough the spices, there was a SABBATH
So there were 2 Sabbath days, with a NON-Sabbath day between them
So
Wednesday – Passover – non Sabbath – Yahshua sacrificed.
Thursday – Feast of Unleavened Bread - Sabbath
Friday – non Sabbath day – Mary, Mary and Salome go to the market to buy spices, go home and prepare them.
Saturday – Sabbath day
Sunday, at first dawn – women go to tomb – Yahshua already resurrected.
3 days: Thursday, Friday, Saturday
AND
3 nights: Wednesday Night, Thursday Night, Friday Night
Is the ONLY way to satisfy ALL the different Scriptures pertaining to this.
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COME ON BA
What are you trying to peddle here??????
The shops didn't open up at night for a few hours.
Yashua WAS ALREADY RISEN Sunday morning, it DIDN'T happen Sunday sunset.
wparr, the sabbath was from friday sunset to Saturday sunset.
After sunset on Saturday, the shops reopened for a few hours. That is when the women bought their spices.
Jeshua then rose during the evening/night portion of Sunday, which was then followed by the morning/day portion of Sunday.
As for you saying "BA, what are you "peddling"?????, that's another example of your harsh and shrill and unnecessary behavior towards me. I ain't peddlin' nothin'. You wouldn't dare talk that way to the truckers at the chapel, why talk that way to me?
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Originally posted by BORN AGAIN:
WhiteEagle, as shown in my little chart:
crucified Thursday around 3 p.m. and then resurrected sometime during Sunday night.
this accounts for "3 day portions" and "3 night portions". It is not necessary that all the hours in the day portion or in the night portion were used up, or not; the Hebrews still called a partial day "a day" or a partial night "a night."
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God bless you also BA! I will stick to tradition. It appears scriptural to me, and when I was doing a little research I came across a web site by David Wilkerson, and he seems to be convinced of the Friday crucifixion as does Max Lucado, and other protestants.
I appreciated your post as you presented it well as well as Linda did hers, and so did wparr.
The only trouble is that wparr,Linda, and BecauseHelives all have an Ax to grind against the Catholic Church and for reasons Unknown to me, it does not sit well in my spirit.
I do not see you as having that kind of agenda.
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I think building a doctrine of the events based on ONE scripture is not sound doctrine.
All other references states Christ will rise the 3rd day, In 3 days and I will gladly if I have to; provide all the scriptures which so state.
To have your way with 3 full 72 hour days makes Christ rise the 4th day.
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This article is ment to inform those who may not know the true scenario for the days of our Messiah's suffering and resurrection, since there is much confusion concerning the tradition of these events.
The following scenario is based on the words of Yeshua, "For as Yonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth," (Matthew 12:40), and on the rest of scriptural evidence. It is important to note for understanding that Hebrew days begin at sundown. It is also important to remember that Yeshua is the fulfillment of the Passover Lamb, and a true fulfillment had to follow the days of Passover.
1. Yeshua came and offered Himself as the Sacrificial Passover Lamb on 10 Nisan, a Sabbath (Saturday), when He rode into Jerusalem on a donkey. It was a Sabbath Day's journey from Bethany. He taught three days: Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, in the Temple.
2. He celebrated the Passover Seder on 14 Nisan (Tuesday night) with His disciples (the twelve). It was here that He explained the meaning of His person in the Passover elements. Afterwards they all went out to Gethsemene, where they spent part of the night.
3. Yeshua was arrested during the night and His trial continued until about 9 am (3rd hour after 6:00 am), when He was put on the stake. At 3:00 pm (9th hour) on Wednesday He died (Baruch HaShem Adonai).
4. He was taken down from the execution stake before the beginning of the Great Sabbath that evening , which is the 15 Nisan, the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
5. He was in the grave the nightime of Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. He was in the grave the daytime of Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Three full days and three full nights.
6. Therefore, He rose from the dead toward the arrival of the first day of the week, 18 Nisan, a Saturday evening (Baruch HaShem Adonai). The women came early on Sunday morning to FIND that Yeshua had already risen.
7. The day of Yeshua's resurrection was also the celebration called Yom HaBikkurim or First Fruits (Leviticus 23), which is always the first day of the week after the Passover.
"Easter" is actually a pagan celebration for the goddess (demon) Ishtar/Astarte, which is held on the first Sunday following the Vernal Equinox (Spring planetary cycle). This day was fixed by apostate medieval churchianity and has nothing to do with Yeshua's resurrection. It is, rather, a lie and a blasphemy to celebrate it as Yeshua's resurrection.
Believers who want to follow the truth need to rethink their blind obedience to the tradition of men. Rather, we need to follow the commandment of God, which He is restoring in this hour.
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BA, the Roman Catholics have so change the way people think about Passover / The Resurrection and The Sabbath that unless Yahweh reveals it to the heart it will not be seen.
Most people are still living in the Dark Ages when it comes to the Truth of Yahweh's Word.
There is not a Christian Good Friday, only a Roman Catholic Good Friday!
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COME ON BA
What are you trying to peddle here??????
The shops didn't open up at night for a few hours.
Yashua WAS ALREADY RISEN Sunday morning, it DIDN'T happen Sunday sunset.
PLEASE
Me thinks you are just being ridiculos to make fun of this topic.
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The day AFTER the Sabbath they bought spices, this CAN’T be Sunday, because the markets would not yet be open for them to buy the spices.
So they must have bought them on Friday.
they can also have bought them on Saturday night after the Sabbath was over at sundown; then the stalls and shops reopened for a few hours.
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WhiteEagle, as shown in my little chart:
crucified Thursday around 3 p.m. and then resurrected sometime during Sunday night.
this accounts for "3 day portions" and "3 night portions". It is not necessary that all the hours in the day portion or in the night portion were used up, or not; the Hebrews still called a partial day "a day" or a partial night "a night."
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Good job, Born Again, I'm still befuddled about the 2 Sabbaths separately just to get 3 full days.
That's OK, though.
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In order to understand the chronology and the statements made about the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the New Testament as they relate to the Messiah’s Last Passover and His crucifixion and resurrection, the following points must be kept in mind:
• A Hebrew day began with an evening and night portion which started at sunset [thus around 6 p.m. or earlier, depending on the season] and a Hebrew day ended with a day portion which lasted until the next sunset. By contrast, a Western day starts six hours later, at midnight, and ends six hours later, at the next midnight.
• The Passover occurred on the 14th day of Abib, and was not a holy convocation, nor was it a sabbath in which no servile work could be done. Indeed, on the original Passover, very hard work was done by Israel preparing for Israel’s hasty departure from Egypt.
• The Feast of Unleavened Bread occurred immediately after the Passover, on the 15th of Abib, and was a seven-day feast, and the first day of that Feast of Unleavened Bread was a holy convocation and was also a sabbath in which no servile work could be done, and likewise was the seventh day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread a holy convocation and a sabbath in which no servile work could be done. These holy convocations and sabbaths were also known as high days.
• In addition, there were the regular, weekly sabbaths in which no servile work could be done, so that two sabbaths could be right next to each other, one being the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread which was a holy convocation and sabbath, and the next was the weekly sabbaths.
• The Passover supper was held in the evening, which was the evening which began after the day portion of the 13th day had ended and which began the evening portion—or thus the first part of a Hebrew day—of the 14th day, which was Passover. After the evening and night portions of the 14th day had passed, the day portion of the 14th day or Passover began, which lasted until sunset.
• Lastly, in the King James English version of the New Testament, all italicized words do not exist in the Greek and were added by the 17th century translators for supposedly better understanding of the verse’s meaning, but since the italicized words were not in the Greek, the translators could only guess at what should be inserted there, and therefore it is often better, or it is at least equally correct, to entirely discard the italicized words altogether.
With these points firmly in mind, let’s begin to examine what happened to our Messiah Yeshua at His Last Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread on the 14th day of Abib and on the 15th day of Abib and on the next seven days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Now, the record in the three gospel books of Matthew, Mark, Luke is essentially the same, but in the book of John some additional points are made so that we will discuss Matthew in detail as representative of the three similar gospels, and then we will additionally look closely at John’s verses which pertain to this subject.
First we begin with Matthew 26 (some verses may be skipped for brevity’s sake):
26:1 And it came to pass, when Yeshua had finished all these sayings, He said to his disciples,
26:2 You know that after two days is the Passover, and the son of man is betrayed to be crucified. (the 11th or 12th of Abib; our Monday or Tuesday, respectively)
26:3 Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people... (the 11th or 12th of Abib; our Monday or Tuesday, respectively)
26:4 And consulted that they might take Yeshua by subtlety, and kill Him. (the 11th or 12th of Abib; our Monday or Tuesday, respectively)
26:5 But they said, “Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people. (the day portion of the 15th of Abib, the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, a holy convocation, sabbath and high day; our Friday day)
Above, in 26:2 Yeshua says that “after two days is the Passover,” which was thus said either on the 12th of Abib, or possibly on the 11th of Abib, since the Passover started at the sunset which ended the day portion of the 13th of Abib, so that this could have been said sometime on the 11th of Abib.
Next, in 26:5, the chief men of Israel said that they shouldn’t kill Him “on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people,” which must refer to the first day of Unleavened Bread or the 15th of Abib, which was a holy convocation and a sabbath and a high day, and that would have caused an uproar by the devout people.
Continuing again with Matthew 26:
26:17 Now the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Yeshua, saying to Him, “Where will you that we prepare for You to eat the Passover”? (the day portion of the 13th of Abib; our Wednesday day)
26:18 And He said, “Go into the city to such a man, and says to him, ‘The Master says, My time is at hand, I will keep the Passover at your house with My disciples.’” (the day portion of the 13th of Abib; our Wednesday day)
26:19 And the disciples did as Yeshua had appointed them; and they made ready the Passover. (the day portion of the 13th of Abib; our Wednesday day)
26:20 Now when the evening was come, He sat down with the twelve. (the evening portion of the 14th of Abib, Passover evening; our Wednesday evening)
26:26 And as they were eating, Yeshua took bread, and blessed it, and broke it, and gave it to His disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.” (the evening portion of the 14th of Abib, Passover evening; our Wednesday evening)
26:27 And He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it.” (the evening portion of the 14th of Abib, Passover evening; our Wednesday evening)
26:28 “For this is My blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.” (the evening portion of the 14th of Abib, Passover evening; our Wednesday evening)
26:30 And when they had sung a hymn, they went out into the Mount of Olives. (the evening portion of the 14th of Abib, Passover evening going on Passover night; our Wednesday night)
26:31 Then said Yeshua to them, “All you shall be offended because of Me this night; for it is written, ‘I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.’” (the evening portion of the 14th of Abib, Passover, with this night referring to the night portion of the 14th of Abib, Passover night; our Wednesday evening and Wednesday night)
26:36 Then comes Yeshua with [the disciples] to a place called Gethsemane... (the evening portion of the 14th of Abib, Passover evening going onto Passover night; our Wednesday evening going into Wednesday night)
26:47 And...lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves... (the night portion of the 14th of Abib, Passover night; our Wednesday night, really Thursday a.m.)
26:57 And they that laid hold on Yeshua led Him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled. (the night portion of the 14th of Abib, Passover night; our Wednesday night, really Thursday a.m.)
First of all, in 26:17 above it says that “the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Yeshua, saying to Him, “Where will you that we prepare for You to eat the Passover”?
The words day and Feast are in italics in the King James version and are thus not in the Greek version and are thus guesses of the translators which can be discarded.
Based strictly on the Greek, the verse therefore reads, “Now the first of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Yeshua, saying to Him, “Where will you that we prepare for You to eat the Passover”?
Note next that on this particular day, the disciples were going to prepare the Passover. Now we know that the Passover was to be killed and eaten on the evening which followed after the day portion of the 13th of Abib had ended, and which started the evening portion of the 14th of Abib, which was when Passover was originally killed and eaten in Egypt.
When the disciples therefore said to Yeshua, “Where do You want us to prepare the Passover,” they must have said this to Yeshua on the day portion of the 13th of Abib, and, as we see from 26:19 above, by the time they had made ready the Passover, evening had nearly arrived, so that it next says in 26:20, “when the evening was come, He sat down with the twelve.” This evening had to be the evening which ended the day portion of the 13th of Abib and which began the evening portion of the 14th of Abib, Passover day.
There is however one more seeming problem with the English translation which needs to be explained. In 26:17 above it said, “Now the first of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Yeshua, saying to Him, “Where will you that we prepare for You to eat the Passover”?
Normally, the first of Unleavened Bread would be the 15th of Abib, which—if that is when the Messiah ate the Passover—would be one day too late. There are two ways to explain this.
For one, it has already been established that by the time of the Messiah Yeshua, the two events of Passover and Unleavened Bread had already been combined into one event which they called either The Passover or simply the feast, because in Luke 22:1 it said:
22:1 Now the feast of unleavened bread drew near, which is called the Passover.
That being the case, when 26:17 said, “Now the first of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Yeshua, saying to Him, “Where will you that we prepare for You to eat the Passover,” that can still simply have meant the 14th of Abib, on which the Passover was to be killed and eaten.
This explanation is further strengthened by the fact that the English word first translates the Greek word protos, which has the meaning of first before the next one comes.
The Greek word protos comes from the stem pro, which in English too means before or preceding, in point of time, as in English the word pro-active means take action before the problem actually arrives. Let’s now look at some similar usages of the word protos in the Greek New Testament.
In Matthew 17:27, the Lord said to Peter, “Take up the fish which first [Greek, protos] comes up.” Here protos means “the fish which comes up before any of the other fish come up in point of time.”
Or, in 1 Timothy 2:13, Paul writes, “For Adam was formed first [protos], then Eve,” meaning that Adam was formed before Eve was formed in point of time.
When this meaning of protos as before any other day arrives is applied to 26:17, which says in the King James version, “Now, the first [Greek, protos] of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Yeshua, saying to Him, ‘Where will you that we prepare for You to eat the Passover’,” it could also have been translated, “Now before any other day of Unleavened Bread arrived, the disciples came to Yeshua, saying to Him, ‘Where will you that we prepare for You to eat the Passover’,” which thus could place it on the correct day, namely the day portion of the 13th of Abib, on which the disciples prepared the Passover, and which then was eaten on the evening which started the 14th of Abib.
And, as we shall see hereafter, all the remaining scriptures quoted hereafter will also point to the 14th of Abib as the day in which they ate the Passover, and not the 15th of Abib.
And lastly, in 26:30 above we see that, “when they had sung a hymn, they went out into the Mount of Olives. And 26:31 adds, “Then said Yeshua to them, "All you shall be offended because of Me this night; for it is written, ‘I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.’”
From this we see that this day when they ate the Passover was not a sabbath, for else they couldn’t have gone out into the mount of Olives on a sabbath, and thus it couldn’t have been the 15th of Abib which was a sabbath; and not only was it a sabbath, it was a holy convocation and a high day, as we shall see later.
Rather, the Passover was neither a sabbath nor a holy convocation, and just as in Egypt, on the Passover, they could freely move about, just as the Israelites moved freely about in Egypt gathering their flocks and belongings on Passover day.
There is however one difference between Egypt and now, because in Egypt the Israelites were commanded to stay indoors until the morning, as it said in Exo.12:21-23:
12:21 ... take a lamb and kill the Passover [in the evening of the 14th of Abib].
12:22 ... strike the doorposts and lintels with the blood...and none of you shall go out of his house until the morning.
12:23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians, and when He sees the blood, the LORD will pass over...
But here in Messiah’s time, they apparently no longer needed to stay indoors until the morning, probably owing to the fact that now only the Lord Yeshua was to be smitten with death, whereas in Egypt, the firstborn of all the people who had not by faith applied the blood to their doorposts were to be smitten dead, and therefore the Israelites in Egypt had to stay behind the blood until morning to remain covered or saved by the blood.
Continuing now with Matthew 27:
27:1 When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, to put Him to death. (the very early day portion of the 14th of Abib, Passover morning; our very early Thursday morning)
27:2 And when they had bound Him, they led Him away, and delivered Him to Pontius Pilate the governor. (the very early day portion of the 14th of Abib, Passover morning; our very early Thursday morning)
27:3 Then Judas who had betrayed Him, when he saw that He was condemned, repented himself... (the very early day portion of the 14th of Abib, Passover morning; our very early Thursday morning)
27:4 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself. (the very early day portion of the 14th of Abib, Passover morning; our very early Thursday morning)
27:11 And Yeshua stood before the governor; and the governor asked Him, saying, “Are you the king of the Jews”?... (the very early day portion of the 14th of Abib, Passover morning; our very early Thursday morning)
27:12 And when He was accused of the chief priests and elders, He answered nothing. (the very early day portion of the 14th of Abib, Passover morning; our very early Thursday morning)
It must be noted here in 27:12 that it’s very early in the morning, and the chief priests and elders have entered into the judgment seat area where Pilate is.
But because it is so early in the morning on Passover day, they will still have an opportunity to cleanse themselves in time for the next day, which is the 15th of Abib, which is a holy convocation and sabbath. And we shall see that later on this same day, they will not enter into Pilate’s judgment area anymore.
Continuing with Matthew 27:
27:15 Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whomever they would. (the very early day portion of the 14th of Abib, Passover morning; our very early Thursday morning)
27:26 Then released [Pilate] Barabbas unto them; and when he had scourged Yeshua, he delivered him to be crucified. (the very early day portion of the 14th of Abib, Passover morning; our very early Thursday morning)
27:33 And when they were come to a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull. (the very early day portion of the 14th of Abib, Passover morning; our very early Thursday morning)
27:35 And they crucified Him, and parted His garments, casting lots... (the 3rd hour, 9 a.m. on the 14th of Abib, Passover morning; our Thursday morning, 9 a.m.)
27:36 And sitting down, they watched Him there. (beginning from the 3rd hour, 9 a.m. on the 14th of Abib, Passover morning; our Thursday morning, beginning from 9 a.m.)
27:45 Now, from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. (from the 6th hour or 12 noon, until the 9th hour or 3 p.m., on the 14th of Abib, Passover afternoon; our Thursday afternoon, from noon to 3 p.m.)
27:46 And about the ninth hour Yeshua cried with a loud voice, saying...”My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me”? (at the 9th hour or 3 p.m., on the 14th of Abib, Passover afternoon; our Thursday afternoon, 3 p.m.)
27:50 Yeshua, when He had cried with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. (at the 9th hour or 3 p.m., on the 14th of Abib, Passover afternoon; our Thursday afternoon, 3 p.m.)
27:57 When the evening was come, there came a rich man of Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was Yeshua’s disciple. (during sunset on the 14th of Abib, late Passover afternoon, going into the evening of the 15th of Abib, which is a holy convocation and a sabbath and high day; our late Thursday afternoon, after 3 p.m. going into our Thursday evening)
27:59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth. (during sunset on the 14th of Abib, late Passover afternoon, going into the evening of the 15th of Abib, a holy convocation and sabbath and high day; our late Thursday afternoon, after 3 p.m. going into our Thursday evening)
27:60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed. (at sunset on the 14th of Abib, late Passover afternoon, going into the evening of the 15th of Abib, a holy convocation and sabbath and high day; our late Thursday afternoon, going into our Thursday evening)
27:61 And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre. (at sunset on the 14th of Abib, late Passover afternoon, going into the evening of the 15th of Abib, a holy convocation and sabbath and high day; our late Thursday afternoon, going into our Thursday evening)
27:62 Now the next day, which followed the day of preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate. (on the 15th of Abib, a holy convocation and sabbath and high day; our Friday day)
27:63 Saying, “Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, “After three days I will rise again.” (on the 15th of Abib, a holy convocation and sabbath and high day; our Friday day)
27:64 “Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure unto the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say to the people, ‘He is risen from the dead; so the last error shall be worse than the first.’” (on the 15th of Abib, a holy convocation and sabbath and high day; our Friday day)
Above 27:62 says that the chief priests and Pharisees came to Pilate on “the next day, which followed the day of preparation.” The day of preparation was the 14th of Abib, Passover day.
During the day portion of the 14th of Abib, on Passover day, the Jews searched out all the leaven which was in their houses, to prepare for the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which began at the sunset which ended the day portion of the 14th day and which started the evening portion of the 15th of Abib, which was a holy convocation, a sabbath, and a high day, in which no servile work was to be done. The Jews prepared for the 15th of Abib during the day portion of the 14th day, on Passover day.
In spite of their superficial outward piety, the chief priests and Pharisees were so afraid that their scheme to kill Yeshua would be foiled by a theft of Yeshua’s body, that they felt absolutely compelled to go on the high day or sabbath to Pilate, to get Pilate to set a guard by the tomb—for they themselves didn’t want to do it because it was a sabbath and high day on which no servile work was to be done—but unfortunately for them, Pilate said:
27:65 ...“You have a watch; go your way, make it as sure as you can.” (on the 15th of Abib, a holy convocation and sabbath and high day; our Friday day)
27:66 And so they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch. (on the 15th of Abib, a holy convocation and sabbath and high day; our Friday day)
So they, out of their great concern, broke the sabbath and high day and went and sealed the stone and set a watch, on the 15th of Abib, the day after the day of preparation, which was a holy convocation and sabbath and high day, in which no servile work was to be done.
Continuing now with Matthew 28:
28:1 And in the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. (while it was yet dark but beginning to dawn, on the 17th of Abib, the first day of the week; our late Saturday night as it begins to dawn towards Sunday morning)
28:2 And, look, there was a great earthquake; for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat on it.
28:5 And the angel answered and said to the women, “Fear not, for I know that you seek Yeshua, who was crucified.”
28:6 “He is not here; for He is risen, as He said. Come and see the place where the Lord lay.”
Now notice this. 28:1 above says the two Marys came in the end of the sabbath? But which sabbath was that?
The Lord Yeshua was buried on late afternoon of Passover day, on the 14th of Abib, on our Thursday afternoon. The chief priests then came on the 15th of Abib, the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread (the day after the day of preparation which was the 14th of Abib), and they sealed the tomb on the 15th of Abib, a holy convocation and sabbath.
This sabbath of the 15th began at sunset Thursday evening and continued until sunset Friday evening. But at sunset Friday evening began the sabbath of the 16th of Abib, which was the regular weekly sabbath which continued until sunset Saturday evening. There were thus two sabbaths right in a row.
So when 28:1 above says that Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the sepulchre “in the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first of the week,” it means that the two Marys had waited two sabbath days, because they could do no servile work on either sabbath, before they could come to the sepulchre with their spices and ointments.
We further see from 28:1 above that the two Marys came to the sepulchre as it began to dawn toward the first of the week, from which we can see that Yeshua was risen from the dead during the evening/night portion of Saturday evening going into Sunday a.m., the 17th of Abib, the first day of the week.
This is important, because from now we can count backwards three days and three nights, because the Lord said in Matthew 12:40:
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.
Now normally, it is true that in the Hebrew language a part of a day can be spoken of as a whole day, but in this case, the Lord specifically says that He will be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights, so that here we literally have to count back three nights and three days to arrive at the day of His crucifixion.
We already know that the time of His Resurrection was on our Saturday night going into Sunday morning while it was yet dark, as shown in graph form below, remembering that a Hebrew day begins with an evening/night portion and ends with a morning/day portion:
• In grave and Resurrection: evening/night portion of 17th of Abib
(our Sunday morning while yet dark)............................................. = 1st night
• In grave: morning/day portion of 16th of Abib
(our Saturday day)....................................................................... = 1st day
• In grave: evening/night portion of 16th of Abib
(our Saturday evening/night)........................................................ = 2nd night
• In grave: morning/day portion of 15th of Abib
(our Friday day)........................................................................... = 2nd day
• In grave: evening/night portion of 15th of Abib
(our Friday evening/night)............................................................ = 3rd night
• Crucifixion/death at 3 p.m., morning/day portion
of 14th of Abib (our Thursday day/afternoon).................................. = 3rd day
Let’s next look at the book of John in similar detail, because the book of John adds some details which are not in either Matthew, Mark or Luke.
For brevity’s sake, the verses in John which are similar to those in Matthew will be mentioned below, but will not be rediscussed in the same detail as they were in Matthew, since that was already done above. Let’s now begin with the record of John 11:
11:55 And the Jews’ Passover was near at hand; and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
Here we see again that in Yeshua’s time, the two feasts, the Passover of the 14th of Abib, and the seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread which began on the 15th of Abib and lasted until the 21st of Abib, are together called by one name, the Jews’ Passover.
Continuing with John 12:
12:1 Then Yeshua, 6 days before the Passover, came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom He raised from the dead. (the 9th of Abib; our Saturday)
12:9 Much people of the Jews therefore knew that He was there; and they came not for Yeshua’s sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom He had raised from the dead. (the 9th of Abib; our Saturday)
12:10 On the next day, much people were come to the feast, when they heard that Yeshua was coming to Jerusalem. (the 10th of Abib; our Sunday)
12:11 And took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet Him, and cried “Hosanna; Blessed is the King of Israel who comes in the name of the LORD.” (the 10th of Abib; our Sunday, called Palm Sunday in the Catholic denomination)
13:1 Now before the feast of the Passover, when Yeshua knew that His hour was come that He should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them unto the end. (Probably the day portion of the 13th of Abib, when the disciples prepared the Passover meal)
13:2 And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him. (The evening of the 14th of Abib, when Yeshua and the disciples have finished eating the Passover meal)
13:4 He rises from supper, and laid aside His garments; and took a towel and girded Himself. (the evening portion of the 14th of Abib; our late Wednesday evening)
13:5 After that He pours water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples’ feet...
13:12 So after He had washed their feet, and had taken His garments, and was sat down again, He said to them...
13:18 “I speak not to all of you; I know whom I have chosen; but that the scripture might be fulfilled, He that eats bread with Me has lifted up his heel against Me.
13:21 When Yeshua had thus said, He was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Truly, truly, I say to you, that one of you shall betray Me.
13:26 Yeshua answered, “He it is, to whom I shall give the sop, when I have dipped it.” And when He had dipped the sop, He gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.
13:27 And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Yeshua to him, “That you do, do quickly.”
13:28 Now no man at the table knew for what intent He spoke this to him.
13:29 For some thought, because Judas had the bag, that Yeshua had said to him, “Buy those things that we have need of against the feast”; or, that he should “give something to the poor.” (the evening portion of the 14th of Abib; our Wednesday evening)
13:30 He then having received the sop, went immediately out; and it was night. (The evening/night portion of the 14th of Abib, going into early morning portion of Thursday)
Note that in 13:29 above, some of the disciples thought that Yeshua had said, “Buy those things that we have need of against the feast.”
Now, we know that when this was said during the evening portion of the 14th of Abib, Passover evening, because they are already eating the Passover supper, so that the disciples must have thought that Judas had been instructed Judas to buy the things that they would need for the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for the 15th of Abib, which was a holy convocation and a sabbath on which no servile work could be done.
Food preparation was allowed on the sabbath day, but not the work involved in buying the food in the market, since there would be no market on the holy convocation/sabbath day.
Continuing now with John 18:
18:1 And when Yeshua had spoken these things, He went forth with His disciples over the brook Kidron, where was a garden, into which He entered, and His disciples. (the evening/night portion of the 14th of Abib; our Wednesday evening/night going into early Thursday morning)
18:3 Judas, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, comes there with lanterns and torches and weapons. (the night portion of the 14th of Abib; our early Thursday morning)
18:13 And led Him away to Annas first, for he was father in law to Caiaphas, who was the high priest that same year. (the night portion of the 14th of Abib; our Wednesday night going into Thursday morning)
18:28 Then they led Yeshua from Caiaphas to the hall of judgment; and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the Passover. (going from the night portion of the 14th of Abib into the day portion of the 14th of Abib; our early Thursday morning)
Here in 18:28, we come across a more difficult statement, saying, it was early, and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the Passover. The difficulty of course lies in the fact that Yeshua and His disciples have already eaten their Passover meal, and presumably all Israel that is assembled in Jerusalem has already eaten their Passover meal at that same time. It is now early in the day portion of the 14th of Abib, so how can they say in this verse that "they might eat the Passover"? Haven’t they already eaten the Passover?
One way to explain this is to realize that the entire feast was often being called the Passover, already since when Moses spoke to the children of Israel on the east side of the Jordan opposite Jericho, as shown below:
1:3 It came to pass in the 40th year...that Moses spoke to the children of Israel [on the east side of the Jordan]
16:1 “Observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover unto the LORD your God; for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night.
16:2 You shall therefore sacrifice the Passover unto the LORD your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place His name there.
16:3 You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shall you eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste.
16:4 ...neither shall there anything of the flesh, which you sacrifice the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning.
First of all, note from 16:1 above that Moses said that the Passover commemorated the bringing forth of Israel out of Egypt by night, which event was actually commemorated, not on the Passover, but on the next day, on the 15th of Abib, on the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Furthermore, Moses said in 16:3 above that for seven days they should eat unleavened bread therewith, when in fact the seven days of unleavened Bread started, not on the Passover, but from the 15th of Abib to the 21st of Abib.
Furthermore, the word they in John 18:2 above in the phase, "they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the Passover", must refer to Annas and Caiaphas, who certainly must have accompanied the elders of Israel to the Roman governor Pilate’s judgment hall, and being the high priests, they had to be at the Temple the next day, on the 15th of Abib which was a day of holy convocation, on which a burnt offering made by fire had to be sacrificed on the altar by the priests unto the LORD, as it says in Leviticus 23:
23:6 And on the 15th day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread unto the LORD; seven days you must eat unleavened bread.
23:7 In the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work therein.
23:8 But you shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days; in the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work therein.
This burnt offering made by fire had to be performed by the priests, as is stated in Leviticus 1, where the LORD says to Moses:
1:2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, “If any man of you bring an offering unto the LORD...
1:3 If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish...
1:4 And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering...
1:5 And he shall kill the bullock before the LORD; and the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
1:6 And he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into his pieces.
1:7 And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay the wood in order upon the fire;
1:8 And the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar.
1:9 But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water; and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor, unto the LORD.
To participate in this burnt offering which was to be sacrificed on the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, on the 15th of Abib, the priests had to be sanctified and Annas and Caiaphas would therefore not have gone into a Gentile’s area in which may have been items or animals which could have defiled them, lest they should be defiled, as John 18:28 above said.
Furthermore, there was no need to sanctify themselves for the Passover meal, since the only requirement to eat the Passover meal was that they be circumcised and that they ate it according to the rites and ordinances thereof, as Numbers 9:2-3 says:
9:2 Let the children of Israel also keep the Passover at his appointed season.
9:3 In the 14th day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in his appointed season; according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall you keep it.
As stated before, these rites and ceremonies were the rules concerning how and when the lamb should be killed and its preparation; that not a bone should be broken; that the flesh should be roasted; that the doorposts had to be sprinkled with the blood; that bitter herbs were to be eaten with the lamb; that the lamb had to be eaten in haste, with staff in hand and with shoes on their feet, and that those eating it had to be circumcised.
Those were the only rites and ceremonies that needed to be observed for Passover on the 14th day of Abib, and nothing else. From observing any of these, the priests could not have been defiled. 18:28 above therefore had to be referring to the 15th of Abib, which was a holy convocation and sabbath, on which the priests had to sacrifice the burnt offering made by fire.
And lastly, we find that while the priests and elders of Israel are still at the Judgment Hall with Pilate, that this day on which they are at the Judgment Hall is the day of preparation, which clearly was Passover day, the day portion of the 14th of Abib, when all Israel had to search out the leaven in their homes and buy food against the next day, the 15th of Abib, a holy convocation and sabbath on which no servile work could be done, as it says in John 19:12-14:
19:12 But the Jews cried out, saying, “If you let this man go, you are not Caesar’s friend...”
19:13 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Yeshua forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement...
19:14 And it was the preparation of the Passover, and about the sixth hour; and he says to the Jews, “Behold your King!”
From 19:14 above we see that it was the preparation of the Passover and that it was the 6th hour, which equates to our noon-hour, so that the priests and elders of Israel were in Pilate’s Judgment Hall, or its outside Pavement, at noon on the day portion of the 14th of Abib, on which day portion they also had to search out the leaven out of their homes and prepare for the oncoming holy convocation and sabbath, which was the 15th of Abib, the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Continuing now with John 19:
19:30 When Yeshua therefore had received the vinegar, He said, “It is finished” and He bowed His head, and gave up the ghost. (on the day portion of the 14th of Abib, our Thursday afternoon)
19:31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the sabbath day (for that sabbath day was a high day), besought Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away. (on the afternoon-day portion of the 14th of Abib, our Thursday afternoon)
In 19:31 above is a very important statement which does not occur in any of the other gospel books, namely that, not only was this the preparation, but it was also a sabbath, and more importantly, this sabbath was a high day.
From this we clearly know that the 15th of Abib, which started when the day portion of the 14th of Abib (our Thursday afternoon) ended at sunset and which started the evening portion of the 15th of Abib and which then lasted until sunset of the day portion of the 15th of Abib, on our Friday afternoon, and this was a sabbath, a high day, one of only seven high days in the entire year.
And after the sabbath-high day of the 15th of Abib, at the sunset which ended the day portion of this 15th of Abib and which began the evening portion of the 16th of Abib, another sabbath started, namely the regular weekly sabbath, so that two sabbaths followed each other.
Knowing this is extremely important in understanding what is meant when John 20:1 later says that Mary came on the first day of the week, that is, after the sabbath, meaning that Mary had waited 2 sabbath days before she could come to the sepulchre.
But to continue with John 19:
19:38 And after this, Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Yeshua, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Yeshua; and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore and took the body of Yeshua. {on the afternoon portion of the 14th of Abib, or late Passover day, going into the evening portion of the 15th of Abib, our late Thursday afternoon)
19:39 And there came also Nicodemus, who at the first came to Yeshua by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds worth.
19:40 Then took they the body of Yeshua, and wound Him in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
19:41 Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.
19:42 There laid they Yeshua therefore because of the Jews’ preparation day; for the sepulchre was near at hand. {on the late afternoon portion of the 14th of Abib, going into the evening portion of the 15th of Abib, or late Passover day, our Thursday afternoon)
Several important things are to be noted from 19:39-40 above, namely that Nicodemus brought myrrh and aloes, and that Joseph and Nicodemus wound Yeshua in linen clothes with the spices.
This clearly was the wisdom of God that Joseph and Nicodemus did this, because in Luke 23:54-56 and Luke 24:1 we read the following:
23:54 And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.
23:55 And the women also, who came with Him [meaning, with Yeshua] from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how His body was laid.
23:56 And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day, according to the commandment.
24:1 Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came to the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.
Because the women got caught having to wait two whole sabbath days, it was the wisdom of God that He sent Joseph and Nicodemus who had brought myrrh and aloes, to anoint the Lord’s body on the day of burial, because by the time the women would get to the body with their spices on the first day of the week, it was already much too late, for the Lord had already been in the grave for two sabbaths.
Continuing now with John 20:
20:1 Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they [that is, the women] came to the sepulchre, bringing the spices, which they had prepared, and certain others with them. (on the early day portion of the 17th of Abib, our early Sunday morning)
20:2 And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.
20:4 And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments.
20:5 And as they were afraid, and bowed their faces to the earth, they said to them, “Why seek you the living among the dead”?
20:6 “He is not here but is risen; remember how He spoke to you when He was yet in Galilee,
20:7 Saying, ‘The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.’”
This completes the account in John of how the Lord Yeshua died and rose again on the third day, as once again presented in graph form below:
• Crucifixion/death at 3 p.m., in day portion of
14th of Abib (Thursday day/afternoon)...................................... = 1st day
• In grave: evening/night portion of 15th of Abib
(Friday evening/night)............................................................. = 1st night
• In grave: morning/day portion of 15th of Abib
(Friday day)............................................................................ = 2nd day
• In grave: evening/night of 16th of Abib
(Saturday evening/night)......................................................... = 2nd night
• In grave: morning/day portion of 16th of Abib
(Saturday day)........................................................................ = 3rd day
• In grave and Resurrection: evening/night of 17th of Abib
(Sunday morning while yet dark).............................................. = 3rd night
So it is that the Lord Yeshua, by a miracle, died right on the 14th of Abib, on Passover day, on the same day on which in Egypt the Israelites killed their Passover lamb, and for this reason, the Lord Yeshua was called the Lamb of God, as John the Baptist said in John 1:29:
1:29 The next day, John sees Yeshua coming to him, and says, “Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.”
And His disciple Luke wrote in Acts 8:32:
8:32 ...He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearers, He opened not His mouth.
And Peter writes in 1 Peter 1:18-20:
1:18 Forasmuch as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation, received by tradition from your fathers;
1:19 But with the precious blood of Messiah, as a lamb without blemish and without spot;
1:20 Who truly was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.
And so the miracle of Passover ended. In Egypt, the Israelites chose a little Passover lamb from the flock, even as our Messiah Yeshua was a Passover Lamb chosen from the flock of Israel, and the little Passover lamb was kept and loved in their house for 3½ days, from the 10th day of Abib until the evening of the 14th of Abib.
Even as also our Messiah Yeshua was kept and loved by many in the house of Israel for 3½ years—a year for a day, as Ezekiel 4:6 says.
And on the 14th of Abib the Israelites in Egypt slew their little Passover lamb which they had come to love in their houses, even as on the 14th of Abib the Israelites in Roman-occupied Israel slew the Messiah Yeshua our Passover Lamb, that the Israelites in Egypt might be redeemed from certain death and instead live, even as the Israelites in Roman-occupied Israel, and yes, the whole world thereafter also, might be redeemed from certain death and live forever.
“Behold the Lamb of God Who takes away the sins of the world!”
God bless, BORN AGAIN
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Linda, this has been boggling my mind all day due to trying to get to the bottom of Jewish custom, and their time frame of evening to evening as the day.
Exodus 12 outlines
Nisan 14 as Passover, the lamb is slain and Passover feast is eaten.
It appearred that the next day was the 1st day of Unleavened bread and it is a High Holy day of rest. There were to be 7 days of the Unleavened Bread.
Since I have found out that Passover on Nissan 14 starting on the evening of the 13th is also considered the 1st Day of Unleavened Bread, and is not a high Holy Day, but a Day of preparation, just as Friday before evening is the day of preparation for the weekly Sabbaths.
It seems to me that the year that Jesus was crucified that the 2nd Day of Unleavened Bread and their weekly Sabbath fell on the same day.
The verses about Mary and the women preparing and leaving and then returning does not to me to designate 2 days of Sabbbath.
Luke 23:52-Luke 24:1-2 "This man went unto Pilate and begged the body of Jesus. And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid. And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on. And the women also which came with him from Galilee followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. And they returned and prepared spices and ointments; and rested on the sabbath day according to the commandment.
Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came to unto the sepulchre bringing spices which they had prepared, and ceretain others with them. And they found the stone rolled away...."
Mark 16: 1-2 "And when the Sabbath was past(after sunset)Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Salome had brought sweet spices that they might come and annoint him. And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came to the sepulchre at the rising of the sun."
Matthew 28:1 "In the end of the Sabbath as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre."
John 20:1 "The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early when it was yet dark unto the sepulchre and seeth the stone taken away..."
I do not see how any of these verses assumes that there were 2 sabbaths.
Like I mentioned to wparr, the 3 days and 3 nights do not seem to be a literal 72 hour period.
The Jews would consider Friday as day one, Saturday as day 2 and Sunday as the third day.
If there were 3 full days and 3 full nights then Jesus was wrong when he said I'll raise this temple "in 3 days". He would be resurrected the 4th day.
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The Lord Yeshua died and rose again on the third day, as presented in graph form below:
• Crucifixion/death at 3 p.m., in day portion of
14th of Abib (Thursday day/afternoon)(Passover--non sabbath)........................... = 1st day
• In grave: evening/night portion of 15th of Abib
(Friday evening/night)(Feast of Unleavened Bread--high day--sabbath)...............= 1st night
• In grave: morning/day portion of 15th of Abib
(Friday day)(still high day--sabbath)......................................= 2nd day
• In grave: evening/night of 16th of Abib
(Saturday evening/night)(weekly sabbath)................................ = 2nd night
• In grave: morning/day portion of 16th of Abib
(Saturday day)(still weekly sabbath)............................ = 3rd day
• In grave and Resurrection: evening/night of 17th of Abib
(Sunday morning while yet dark)............................................= 3rd night
God bless, BORN AGAIN
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Thanks Linda, it shows very well and very detailed what I was trying to get across.
The problem is tradition is a very very powerful form of bondage that can be very difficult to break free from.
wparr, that's a snip.
Here's a web web that tells how Jewish people look at time frames.
http://www.bible.ca/d-3-days-and-3-nights.htm#V
This is a very confusing subject. We are not Jews nor know their traditions.
I believe Jesus was crucified on Friday, and do agree this was the Passover Day. He died at the same time the Passover lambs were being slain.
His body was taken down before sunset and place in the grave.
Friday at sunset started the Sabbath and it was also the 2nd Day of Unleavened Bread a High Holy Day.
There is only one place Jesus refers to being 3 days and 3 nights in the heart of the earth. All other references say "in three days"
I do not take the days as 3 literal 24 hour periods.
Friday was a day, and Saturday a day and Sunday was the third day when He arose.
If it were literally 72 hours then Jesus's tomb should have been been found open in the evening since he died at the nineth hour which is about 3 pm.
Mary found the tomb empty early in the morning, so that means if Jesus arose exactly 72 hours after he died, that a whole evening and night had gone by before anyone noticed.
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That is a lesson that I have learned the hard way; but sometimes it is not that at all, but that there are a lot of things that we believe because it is what we were taught, grew up with, and I guess in a sense that is also tradition, but think about another thread that is open right now... how many people believe that Jesus admonsihed the Pharisee for following too closely the law? He did not. They were not following the law, they were following what men said the law meant and not what the law said. There is nothing in the law that says you cant close the eyes of a deadman on the Sabbath! But the Talmud says you cant close they eyes of a dead man on sabbath and if you do it is as murder! Tradition! Indeed it was a heavy yoke of bandage to the people who lived under the rule of the Pharisee.
Here is another one... people teach today that Jesus battled Satan in Hell for the keys to the gates of Hell. They have been taught Satan is in hell... but who according to the Bible has always had the keys to the gates of hell?
Matthew 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Do we fear Satan or do we fear God?
Where in the scripture does it say that Satan has authority over hell?
Satan is the god of this world according to the scripture and he roams the EARTH not hell seeking whom he can devour.
Tradition - Satan is a man with a red suit and a pitch fork that tortures people in hell. It is not a scriptural account of the devil or the place of his authority. Do we really believe that God left Satan in charge of keeping the angels that sinned in hell?
There is much like this in the scriptures that is contrary to what men teach, but we believe because it is what is taught and we would rather listen to men than search the scriptures and study to show ourselves approved unto God.
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wonderful post HFHS! Shalom
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Thanks Linda, it shows very well and very detailed what I was trying to get across.
The problem is tradition is a very very powerful form of bondage that can be very difficult to break free from.
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This article is verylong, but it is one of the best that I have ever read on this subject: It is worth reading with careful attention to detail even if you had to print it and read it over 3 days to take it all in. Perhaps it will help.
I think that part of our difficulty in seeing this is the difference in how the day is rekoned. But there is great blessing in seeing some of the things pointed out in this article. I hope it blesses someone.
CHRONOLOGY OF THE CRUCIFIXION WEEK
Radio Sermons
by Wayne Carver
The Christian Jew Foundation
Foreword
The Lord Jesus Christ clearly said in Matthew 12:38-40 that He would spend "three days and three nights in the heart of the earth," just as Jonah had spent "three days and three nights" in the belly of the great fish. Isn't it strange, however, that almost universally throughout Christendom we find that the remembrance of Christ's crucifixion is held on "Good Friday" and that His resurrection is acknowledged as occurring on Sunday morning, at dawn? By no stretch of the imagination or masterful manipulation of Scripture is it possible to stretch the period from Friday evening to Sunday morning into "three days and three nights"! Many have attempted to do so and millions of Christians have accepted this viewpoint; but in all honesty, it just can't be done.
There are two vital issues at stake: the trustworthiness of the Bible and the Deity of Jesus Christ. If the Lord only spent 36 hours in the grave--from Friday at 6 PM until Sunday at 6 AM--then the Bible is not correct and the Lord Jesus is a false prophet. And if this is true, then we are foolish to believe the Bible and to follow Christ. We would be just as well off becoming Buddhists, Muslims or atheists.
So you see, this is no small matter. As a Bible-believing Christian who openly and unashamedly professes the Deity of Jesus Christ, I make no apology for standing on the Word of God and against the teaching of men--even sincere, godly men--who have explained away the prophecy of our Lord and the clear statement of Scripture. For in so doing they have committed a terrible act against the integrity of the Christian faith. I believe that diligent study of the Word of God will yield the truth, and this is what we seek.
Perhaps you're wondering why the vast majority of Christians accept the Friday-to-Sunday burial of Christ if it is wrong? The only honest answer that can be given is tradition. I firmly believe--and hope that you will to after you have finished this book--that tradition is wrong in this instance and that the Bible is clear and we have to make no apologies or excuses for Christ's words.
The key to properly understanding the "three days and three nights in the heart of the earth" is knowing the chronology, or time-event sequence, of the crucifixion week. As creatures of time, we always want to know when something happened, and what happened before and after. The Bible has recorded the significant events of the last week of our Lord's life on this earth. We'll have to do a little "digging" to find them, but then the Word of God commands us to "study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." II Tim. 2:15.
In this study, Scripture will be our basis, and the upholding of the honor of our Lord and His infallible Word will be our motive.
Contents
1. The Sign of the Prophet Jonah
2. The Passover Pilgrimage
3. First Century Jewish Traditions
4. The Time of the Resurrection
5. Two Key Days
6. Chronology: Friday Through Sunday
7. Chronology: Monday and Tuesday
8. Chronology: Wednesday and Thursday
9. Chronology: Friday Through Sunday
10. Chronology of Crucifixion Week Illustrated
1. The Sign of the Prophet Jonah
There are several preliminary details that we need to consider before we actually begin to set forth the chronology of the crucifixion week. Although they may seem unrelated on the surface of things, as the study progresses, we will see their importance and relevance.
The Prophecy of Jonah
"Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: 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. 12:38-40.
Repeatedly the scribes and the Pharisees refused to accept the Messianic claims of the Lord Jesus. His words were not good enough for them. They wanted something more. They demanded an unmistakable sign. The Jews walked by sight, not by faith.
The Lord Jesus Christ responded to their demand by quoting Jonah 1:17, which says that the prophet Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish. Then He clearly applied this passage to His own coming experience, saying that He would be "three days and three nights in the heart of the earth." Our Lord said that three full days would pass between the time of His entombment and the hour He arose from the dead. The Jews did not question the literalness of Jonah's three days and three nights in the great fish, and there is no reason to believe that our Lord did not mean that His own entombment would not be literally fulfilled.
The Typology of Jonah
Jonah's captivity in the great fish and his subsequent deliverance is a type of the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. The death and bodily resurrection of Christ after three days in the tomb is the sign that God is now using to authenticate the Gospel message. That's why the Apostle Paul wrote, "For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures." I Cor. 15:3-4.
Jonah was the only Old Testament prophet who was ever sent away from Israel as a missionary to the Gentiles. He was sent to that great and wicked city of Nineveh. After passing through a death-illustrating experience and being restored to his commission, God used him to bring repentance to the Ninevites.
At the time our Lord gave the sign of Jonah to the Jews, He was about to depart from Israel. The religious leaders had rejected His Messianic claims and had persuaded most of the people to do the same. But before the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ would be carried to the Gentiles, it was necessary for Him to be crucified, buried for three days and three nights as Jonah was and resurrected to newness of life and commission.
The importance of the sign of Jonah is that if Jesus Christ did not spend exactly three days and three nights in the tomb, then the Gospel message is not being authenticated, the Lord Jesus Christ's words are in error and the Bible is not true. No wonder Satan is so eager to perpetuate the "Good Friday" crucifixion and the Sunday morning resurrection. For in so doing he is attacking the Lord, the Bible and the Gospel at the same time.
2. The Passover Pilgrimage
The appropriate point to begin our detailed consideration of the crucifixion week is with an incident that occurred at Jericho. The healing of blind Bartimaeus stands at the beginning of the end of our Lord's life on this earth.
The Jericho Road
"And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging. And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me. And many charged him that he should hold his peace: but he cried the more a great deal, Thou son of David, have mercy on me." Mark 10:46-48.
There is a significant point in Mark's record that we should not overlook. Bartimaeus called the Lord Jesus Christ the "Son of David." This is the only place in Mark's Gospel that this title appears. Elsewhere the Lord is referred to as the "Son of man." But Bartimaeus called Him the "Son of David," and he was healed of his blindness.
The spiritual blindness of the nation Israel, God's chosen people, is pictured by Bartimaeus' physical blindness. The Son of David, the Anointed One of God, had come to give sight to that spiritually blind nation. And in Jericho the Son of David once more showed His gracious power as Bartimaeus, who is a type of the remnant that will someday recognize Jesus of Nazareth as David's greater Son, had his vision restored.
The Passover Feast was, by far, the greatest crowd gatherer of all Israel's annual feasts.
The pilgrims were young and old. The aged who were unable to walk the entire distance rode upon the backs of donkeys. The crowded road and the plodding asses made for slow progress along the road.
It is approximately 17 miles from Jericho to Bethany. Seventeen miles seems quite a short distance to us today because of our modern roads and means of transportation. But to the pilgrims of Jesus' day the distance was not short and the journey was not a minor undertaking. The road was wild, rough and a continuous upgrade.
The Outskirts of Jerusalem
When the pilgrim crowds reached the vicinity of Jerusalem, it was necessary that a camp be made before the sun went down and darkness settled over the land. Historical records indicate that on the eve of the Passover there were vast numbers of pilgrims in and around Jerusalem. Some estimates run as high as a million.
The city of Jerusalem certainly did not have accommodations to handle so many people; therefore, it was necessary for the people to camp wherever they could find room. The campsites had to be prepared and the booths erected, which served as temporary shelters, after the destination was reached. It would frequently require several hours for a family to find a suitable campsite and to get properly settled down for the night.
The purpose in considering the details of the journey from Jericho to Jerusalem is to help us understand today that it would have been next to impossible for a group of traveling pilgrims to leave Jericho in the morning and arrive in Jerusalem on the same day.
It took a minimum of two days to make the trip. And this fact has an important bearing on establishing the day of the week as well as the day of the month on which our Lord's last journey to Jerusalem was made.
Messianic Expectations
When our Lord began His journey to Jerusalem to keep the Feast of the Passover as the true Paschal Lamb, a relatively small company followed Him. By the time He reached Jericho, the band of disciples had been joined by other religious pilgrims who also were headed for Jerusalem to keep the Passover. Having seen and heard of the miracles performed by Jesus, many in this assorted company expected Jesus to openly declare Himself as the Messiah when He reached Jerusalem.
They anticipated the Roman yoke being thrown off by a force of arms, aided by a display of supernatural miracles from the Messiah Himself. Thus by the time the group reached Jerusalem, Messianic hopes were running high, and the stage was set for a triumphal march into the city.
Entry into Jerusalem "On the Next Day"
The Apostle John tells us of our Lord's arrival at Bethany after His long journey along the Jericho road. Leaving most of the traveling party at the outskirts of Jerusalem, Jesus and His disciples went to nearby Bethany.
"Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him." John 12:1-2.
The last eight miles on the Jericho road were the steepest part of the uphill grade; so we can be sure that our Lord and His party were quite weary when they arrived at the home of Mary, Martha and Lazarus. They certainly must have appreciated the supper that was prepared as a token of their great love.
Notice, however, John 12:12-15, which reads:
"On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord. And Jesus, when he had found a young *** , sat thereon; as it is written, Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an *** 's colt."
The basis for what is known as Palm Sunday is found in this passage. It is generally taught that the triumphal entry occurred on the first day of the week, and that by observing Palm Sunday, Christians are properly commemorating the first significant event in the crucifixion week.
Let me point out that verse 12 definitely states that the so-called triumphal entry took place "on the next day" after our Lord's arrival in Bethany.
If this occurred on the first day of the week, then the preceding day was the seventh day of the week. In other words, the Lord Jesus completed His journey from Jericho on the Sabbath.
One thing that was deeply ingrained in the consciences of the Jews of that day was the Sabbath.
The Rabbinical laws of the Sabbath had been worked out to the minutest detail, one of which pertained to the "Sabbath day's journey."
The Sabbath day's journey is mentioned only in Acts 1:12, where we read, "Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey." Davis'
Dictionary of the Bible states that the distance between Mount Olivet and Jerusalem, measured as the crow flies, is about 2,250 feet.
The regulation of the Sabbath day's journey had its origin in God's injunction found in Exodus 16:29, which states that the Israelites on the wilderness journey were not to leave the boundaries of the camp on the Sabbath day. These were reckoned to be about 2,000 cubits, or just under 3/4 of a mile.
We know from secular records that some flexibility was allowed in the length of the Sabbath day's journey to permit Passover pilgrims encamped on the outskirts to come into Jerusalem. The walls of Jerusalem were considered as extended to encircle the encamped pilgrims during this season.
The man-made regulation always permitted travel to any point within the city wall, since the Sabbath day's journey was considered to end at the city gate.
Bethany is fifteen furlongs (about 1 7/8 miles) from the actual walls of Jerusalem. John 11:18. Though this would have been slightly longer than a Sabbath day's journey, travel from Bethany to Jerusalem was permissible on the Sabbath, due to the "extended walls" of the Passover season.
But, a long eight-mile journey toward Jerusalem along the Jericho road by the Lord Jesus and all who were with Him would have been a clear violation of the Sabbath laws as most Jews understood them.
Furthermore, the supper that Martha and Mary had prepared for Jesus on the day of His journey (if that day was a Sabbath day) would have placed them in violation of the Sabbath. The penalty for Sabbath violation was stoning to death by command of the religious authorities.
These facts lead to only one valid conclusion: the journey from Jericho was not made on a Sabbath day. Therefore, the triumphal entry could not have been made on a Sunday!
3. First Century Jewish Traditions
The observance of the Passover recalls Israel's deliverance from Egypt and the beginning of her national life. But in a much deeper sense, the Passover foreshadowed the sacrifice of that true, spotless Lamb of God, slain on Calvary's tree for the sins of the world.
The Law of the Passover
God's law of the Passover is considered in three books of the Pentateuch: Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers. Three specific days are mentioned in conjunction with the observance of the Passover Feast.
The first date of importance is the tenth of Nisan, the first month of the Jewish year, which in Moses' day was known as Abib.
This is the date on which the Israelites were to select their Paschal lamb. "In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb." Exodus 12:3.
The next important date is the fourteenth of Nisan. Exodus 12:6 has these instructions: "And ye shall keep it (that is, the Paschal Lamb) up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening."
The Passover lamb was to be slain on the fourteenth. However, God's instructions permitted some tolerance as to the exact time of the slaying of the sacrifice, and this is extremely significant.
The literal translation of the last clause of verse 6 is "between the evenings," not "in the evening."
According to Hebrew reckoning, a day begins at sunset.
So the fourteenth of Nisan begins at 6 PM on the day we would call the thirteenth.
And the fourteenth ends and the fifteenth begins at 6 PM on the following day, the day we would consider as the fourteenth.
Therefore, the Passover extends from sunset on the thirteenth to sunset on the fourteenth.
In the observance of the first Passover, God specifically instructed Moses that the lamb was to be slain in the evening of the fourteenth, which was the evening that ushered in the day of the fourteenth.
The Jewish custom down through the centuries, therefore, was to slay the lamb early in the evening of the fourteenth of Nisan (which actually was done late in the afternoon of the thirteenth) and partake of it at the Paschal supper, which was on the evening preceding the day of Nisan fourteenth.
The highly significant point, however, is that the law permitted the sacrifice to be slain any time "between the evenings."
Thus God made provision for His Son, the true Paschal Lamb, to partake of the symbolic Paschal lamb on the evening of the fourteenth and still offer Himself as an acceptable sacrifice before the setting of the sun on the day of Nisan fourteenth.
God's way is perfect just as His Word is perfect.
Immediately upon the setting of the sun upon the day of the fourteenth of Nisan, the fifteenth of Nisan began. And according to Leviticus 23:6-7 and Numbers 28:18, this was the day that initiated the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
In it, the assembly of Israel was to "have an holy convocation" and to "do no servile work therein." Don't miss this point, the day of Nisan fifteenth was always a Sabbath day! It made absolutely no difference on which day of the week it fell.
The nation of Israel was given a number of Sabbath days, among which the seventh-day Sabbath was only one type.
The other Sabbaths, such as the fifteenth of Nisan, were considered to be "high" days; that is, they had even more significance than the regular seventh-day Sabbath.
One of the main reasons the Christian church holds to a Friday crucifixion is because the crucifixion day was followed by a Sabbath.
Early church leaders jumped to the conclusion that this was a seventh-day Sabbath without carefully consulting the Scriptures.
The Old Testament clearly teaches that every Nisan fifteenth was a Sabbath--and a high Sabbath at that.
But John 19:31 tells us "that sabbath day was an high day." Therefore, the day of our Lord's crucifixion did not necessarily occur on Friday.
It could have occurred on any day of the week.
Modifications to the Passover
When Israel was finally settled in Palestine, there was a modification in the manner the Passover Feast was observed.
For instance, in our Lord's day the Passover was no longer eaten in a standing position. Instead, it was eaten in a reclining position just as the regular meals.
In the days of our Lord, it had become customary to kill the Passover lambs on the afternoon of the thirteenth of Nisan rather than on the evening of the fourteenth.
Josephus, the Jewish historian, tells us that there were sometimes as many as 250,000 lambs slain on the occasion of the Passover.
It was necessary that the lambs be slain by the priests in the temple. We can imagine the momentous traffic jam that resulted from this and we can well appreciate that several hours of time would be required to sacrifice all these lambs.
So the killing of the Passover lambs began about two or three o'clock in the afternoon of Nisan thirteenth.
Then by five to five-thirty in the afternoon, all the lambs were slain.
Josephus confirms that in the years just before the time of Titus's destruction of Jerusalem, in 70 A.D., it was customary to slay the lambs between the ninth and eleventh hour (that is, between 3:00 PM and 5:00 PM).
At sundown on the thirteenth of Nisan, the fourteenth began. The lamb had been prepared, and when the roasting was complete, the participants gathered around the table and ate the Passover supper.
God's law of the Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread calls the fourteenth of the month Nisan "the Passover." However, by the time of our Lord, the Jews had come to call this day the "Preparation day."
To them the major feast day, the "high" day, was the fifteenth of Nisan, the day the Scriptures designate as the first day of Unleavened Bread.
So at the time of our Lord's crucifixion, the fourteenth of Nisan, the day on which the Passover lamb was eaten, was called the day of "Preparation." The following day (the high Sabbath day, the fifteenth of Nisan) was called the "Passover day," although this was actually the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
This modification is confirmed by Matthew 26:17-19. Notice particularly verse 17: "Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?" If this passage were to be interpreted in strict accordance with the law of Moses, it would not make any sense. "The Passover" was the fourteenth of Nisan and the Paschal lamb was to be eaten on that day. "The first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread" was Nisan the fifteenth.
So we can conclude that the terms associated with the observance of the Passover Feast which appear in the New Testament are used in accordance with popular usage in that day and not strictly according to the definition of the law of Moses.
4. The Time of the Resurrection
In developing the chronology of the crucifixion week, there is one event that we can definitely associate with a particular day of the week. That event is the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
He is Risen
"And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun. And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?
And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great. And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted. And he said unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him." Mark 16:1-6.
This passage records the discovery of our Lord's resurrection and tells us the time of this discovery. More literally translated, this passage reads as follows: "And the Sabbath being past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the (mother) of James, and Salome brought aromatics, that having come, they might anoint him.
And very early on the first (day) of the week, they come upon the tomb, the sun having risen." This account shows that this visit came very early on a Sunday morning.
The same incident is recorded in Luke 24:1-3. "Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.
And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus." So Luke also recorded that the discovery of the empty tomb came very early on a Sunday morning.
"The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him." John 20:1-2.
Note carefully that none of these Gospel reports describe our Lord's resurrection. These passages tell of the discovery of the empty tomb when the women came to anoint the Lord's body very early on a Sunday morning. T
he resurrection had already taken place sometime prior to this event. The idea that the resurrection took place at sunrise on a Sunday morning is not Scriptural. All three Gospels positively state that as early as the time was--even while it was "yet dark"--the Lord had already risen.
The Sabbath is Ended
We could know for certain when the resurrection of our Lord happened if we had just one definite witness to the exact hour of its occurrence. Well, God has seen fit to give us this witness in the Gospel of Matthew.
"In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it." Matt. 28:1-2.
Matthew described an event that seems to have occurred very closely in conjunction with the actual resurrection. This is the earthquake that took place when the angel descended from heaven to roll back the stone from the door of the tomb.
Matthew's emphasis here is upon the descent of the angel and the accompanying earthquake. The time of this event is set by the opening phrase "in the end of the sabbath." This designates a specific time of the day.
The word translated "began to dawn" in Matthew 28:1 is the Greek "epiphoskousa," which literally means "the coming of the light." Dr. H. A. Griesemer, a Greek scholar, has made the following remarks concerning this word.
"The word 'dawn' is very misleading.
We speak of the dawn as the opening of the day, the light that comes with the rising of the sun.
We always associate the dawn with the sunlight, but the Greek word here is 'epiphoskousa,' which means the shining of the sun or the moon.
You will observe that the passover feast always occurred at the time of the full moon. Just as the sun was setting, the moon would be rising."
Dr. George R. Berry in his Interlinear Greek-English New Testament translates the opening part of Matthew 28:1 as follows. "Now late on the sabbath, as it was getting dusk toward the first day of the week..." We can establish the time referred to by Matthew as the time of the setting of the sun on the seventh-day Sabbath.
So, just as the sun had set at the beginning of the Jewish first day of the week (remember, the Jewish day always began with the evening at the setting of the sun); there was an earthquake, the angel of the Lord descended, and he rolled away the stone and sat on it.
The resurrection occurred at the "end of the sabbath," just as the first day of the week was beginning, which according to Hebrew reckoning would have been sunset on Saturday, or around 6 PM.
Certainly the stone would not have been rolled away from the tomb before our Lord arose from the dead.
Furthermore, Matthew 27:51 tells us that there was an earthquake at the time of our Lord's death. So it seems reasonable that the second earthquake would have occurred at the moment of our Lord's resurrection.
Therefore, Matthew supplies the definite witness to our Lord's resurrection at sunset on Saturday afternoon, 72 hours after His burial.
Prophetic Requirements
The requirements of prophecy also help us to pinpoint some of the key events of the crucifixion week.
The Lord Himself prophesied that He would be resurrected on the third day. Matthew 16:21 says, "From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day."
According to Jewish reckoning, the setting of the sun marked the end of the day, but that point in time was also a part of that day.
However, sunset also marked the beginning of the next day. So Christ also was resurrected on the first day of the week.
There is another prophecy that required the Lord Jesus Christ to be resurrected on the first day of the week.
The Apostle Paul wrote in I Corinthians 15:20, "But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept." Jesus Christ in His resurrection fulfilled the law of the firstfruits. Leviticus 23:9-11 contains God's instructions concerning this law: "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath this priest shall wave it." The offering of the firstfruits, which typified the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, was to be waved before the LORD "on the morrow after the sabbath"--on the first day of the week!
The evidence that our Lord was resurrected at sunset on Saturday is overwhelming.
Only this exact point in time permits our Lord's resurrection to literally fulfill the prophecy for three seemingly incompatible situations: (1) resurrection after "three days and three nights in the heart of the earth," (2) resurrection "on the third day," and (3) resurrection on the first day of the week--"the morrow after the sabbath."
5. Two Key Days
The most important day in conjunction with the crucifixion week is obviously the day of resurrection, which we have seen is Saturday-Sunday (Nisan 18). However, there are two other key days that we need to investigate from a Scriptural position before we can unfold the chronology of the crucifixion week.
"Good Wednesday"
"Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus." Luke 24:1-3.
Since it has been shown from the Word of God that the resurrection took place at sundown on the day that we would call Saturday, the traditional "Good Friday" myth can be dispelled once and for all.
All arguments supporting a Friday crucifixion evaporate when we come to this realization.
Furthermore, we can unreservedly apply the prophetic typology of Jonah, who was (according to our Lord's words) in the belly of the great fish for "three days and three nights." And this definitely fixes Wednesday as the day our Lord was crucified and buried.
The Lord died about three o'clock in the afternoon. Matthew 27:46-50. He was placed in the sepulchre at sunset.
The Lord was crucified "between the evenings" on Nisan fourteenth in order to literally fulfill the Levitical law of the Passover.
Therefore, Nisan the fourteenth began at sunset Tuesday, and that day extended to sunset on Wednesday.
The Lord Jesus Christ partook of the Paschal supper on the evening of Nisan fourteenth, and He died as the true Paschal Lamb on the day of Nisan fourteenth.
So both the type and antitype were fulfilled. Both were slain "between the evenings" as required by God's law.
Thursday was Nisan fifteenth, the "high Sabbath" of the Passover. Levitical law called this day "the first day of Unleavened Bread." Friday was Nisan sixteenth, Saturday was Nisan seventeenth, and Sunday (the first day of the week and the day on which the offering of the firstfruits was to be brought) was the eighteenth of Nisan.
"Palm Saturday"
Now, let's count backward from Wednesday, Nisan fourteenth, and see where other significant events of the crucifixion week fit into the chronology.
First, we need to recall God's detailed instructions for the selection of the Paschal lamb.
These are given in Exodus 12:1-3.
"And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house."
The Paschal lamb was to be selected and set apart from the other members of the flock on the tenth day of Nisan.
Now, if Wednesday was Nisan fourteenth, then Tuesday would have been Nisan thirteenth; Monday, Nisan twelfth; Sunday, Nisan eleventh; and Saturday, therefore, would have been Nisan tenth.
The tenth day of Nisan occurred on a regular seventh-day Sabbath.
Many prophecies and types were fulfilled during the crucifixion week; so it only seems natural to wonder what event of the crucifixion week fulfilled the selection of the Paschal lamb on Nisan tenth.
Certainly if Jesus is the true Paschal Lamb, there must be some event that pointed to His selection and acceptance during the week. The answer seems obvious.
Let's notice the words of Mark 11:7-9.
"And they brought the colt to Jesus, and cast their garments on him; and he sat upon him. And many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down branches off the trees, and strawed them in the way. And they that went before, and they that followed cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord."
Hosanna means "Save now!"
The triumphal entry was the fulfillment of the prophetic type represented in the law of the selection of the Paschal lamb.
It was on this day that the multitude turned out to greet our Lord Jesus Christ and to recognize Him both as the King of Israel and as the One who had come to bring physical salvation from Roman oppression.
The nationalistic fervor that had arisen on the Jericho road pilgrimage reached its peak with the entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem.
The triumphal entry into Jerusalem by our Lord not only fulfilled the type of the selection of the Paschal lamb, it also fulfilled several Old Testament prophecies.
Some 450 years prior to this event, the prophet Zechariah had written, "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an *** , and upon a colt the foal of an *** ." Zech. 9:9. Zechariah's prophecy is quoted in Matthew 21:5 and John 12:15.
But this is not the only prophecy that was fulfilled on that day. About a century earlier than Zechariah's prophecy, the prophet Daniel was chosen of the Lord to give us the great time prophecy found in Daniel 9:25-26. "Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself."
Daniel prophesied that Messiah the Prince would be cut off after 69 "weeks of years," which is 483 years (in 360-day prophetic years exactly 173,880 days), after "the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem."
Sir Robert Anderson, in his book The Coming Prince, has done a remarkable job of showing that this prophecy terminated on the very day of the triumphal entry.
There is one further piece of evidence that shows that the triumphal entry took place on a Saturday rather than a Sunday. This comes from noticing what our Lord did after He arrived in Jerusalem on that day.
Mark 11:11 says, "And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve." So ended the events of that day.
The focal point of the activity of the next day comes in Mark 11:15-16, where we read, "And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them that sold doves; And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple."
On the day of the triumphal entry, Jesus entered into the temple, He looked around, and He left. On the following day, He entered into the temple and drove out the money-changers. Why did He not do this on the first day? The answer is obvious. The Lord did not cleanse the temple on the first day because it was the quiet Jewish Sabbath.
There was no merchandising on that day! The Lord would not have hesitated to cleanse the temple on the first day if the business activities were in progress. And He did not need 24 hours to decide what to do about the disgraceful situation there. This passage is powerful circumstantial evidence that the triumphal entry did indeed occur on the seventh-day Jewish Sabbath.
6. Chronology: Friday Through Sunday
"Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with odour of the ointment." John 12:1-3.
We are now ready to consider the details of the chronology of the crucifixion week.
We have developed a number of time-points, and the basic structure of the events during this week has emerged.
But now it's time for us to begin at the day that our Lord Jesus Christ made the final part of His journey to Bethany from Jericho and step-by-step carefully go through the details of the Scriptural record that will take us event-by-event to that early Sunday morning when the empty tomb was discovered.
Friday, the Ninth of Nisan
Our starting point is John 12:1-3. You'll recall that there had been several changes in the observance of the Passover since God had given this feast through Moses at the time of the Exodus.
Originally, Scripture referred to the fourteenth of Nisan as the "Passover" and the seven days of Nisan fifteenth through the twenty-first as the "Feast of Unleavened Bread." However, in the days of our Lord, the Jews referred to the entire eight-day celebration as both the "Passover" and the "Feast of Unleavened Bread" interchangeably.
The high point in the celebration was the Passover Sabbath, which was observed on Nisan fifteenth.
To the Jews of our Lord's day, this was the focal point of the entire celebration, and it was referred to as the "Passover." The day previous, Nisan fourteenth, God's Passover, was referred to as the Preparation day.
Therefore, when John wrote that "Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany," he was using the term "Passover" as it was used at that time.
He had in view the high Sabbath of the Passover celebration, which was Nisan fifteenth.
So we can identify the day on which our Lord arrived in Bethany.
That was Friday, Nisan the ninth. It was on this day that our Lord arrived at the home of Martha, Mary and Lazarus, in the little village of Bethany, which was fifteen furlongs (1 7/8 miles) from Jerusalem.
The Lord Jesus Christ arrived in Bethany sufficiently early on Friday afternoon to permit Martha and Mary to prepare a supper for Him. We can be sure that the preparation of the food was finished before sunset.
However, the supper was not eaten until after the sun had set and a new day had dawned.
When Mary took the pound of ointment of spikenard and poured it on Jesus' feet and then wiped them with her hair, the evening of the tenth of Nisan, a seventh-day Sabbath, had already begun.
This act of Mary's was the first phase of the selection of the Paschal Lamb, which God's law said must be done on the tenth day of the month.
Scripture does not tell us whether or not our Lord spent that entire evening in the home of Martha and Mary. The inference is that He did.
It is significant that after our Lord's arrival in the vicinity of Jerusalem to keep His appointment with the cross, He never spent a night in the city of Jerusalem. In Scripture Jerusalem represents the fold of Judaism, the housing place of the sheep of that nation.
After our Lord's selection as the true Paschal Lamb who was to die, not only for the lost sheep of the house of Israel, but for all peoples, it was necessary for Him to remain separate. The law required that the selected Paschal lamb be set apart from the rest of the sheep. Bethany represents the position of separation "outside the camp."
Saturday, the Tenth of Nisan
"On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, Took branches of palm trees and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord." John 12:12-13.
This was the next day, the day following that evening on which our Lord Jesus Christ was anointed by Mary for His burial.
It was Saturday, Nisan tenth, a seventh-day Sabbath, and the day on which God's law said that the acceptable "lamb without blemish" must be selected and set apart.
Christ began the day by presenting Himself to Israel as her King. He was recognized as such. But then He was rejected, and the people of Israel selected Him as a Lamb for slaughter instead.
And what did the Lord of the Sabbath do when He reached the temple? Mark tells us that "Jesus entered into Jerusalem and into the temple: and when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve." Mark 11:11.
It was the Sabbath. All was quiet. There were no money-changers or merchants at work in the temple.
The Lord Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, simply inspected His house. "He looked round about on all things."
Herod's temple was a beautiful structure. But despite the beauty of this magnificent edifice, our Lord saw a great deal of ugliness, too.
The evidence of a sinful and disobedient people was all around. But on this particular day, Nisan the tenth, the temple area was quiet, for it was a Sabbath.
Thus our Lord simply inspected His Father's house and then withdrew Himself to Bethany as the sun began to sink in the west, closing the day on which the true Passover Lamb had been selected.
Sunday, the Eleventh of Nisan
"And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it." Mark 11:12-14.
This day was Sunday, Nisan the eleventh, the first day of the week. It was just one week prior to that time when our Lord would come forth from the tomb in resurrection life, "the firstfruits of them that slept." It is most appropriate that the incident of the cursing of the fig tree took place on this day.
This incident is a living parable which predicts the setting aside of the nation Israel during the present inter-advent age. The fig tree is a figure used in Judges 9 in Jothan's "parable of the four trees," but it has continued throughout the Old Testament record.
On the first day of the week, Sunday, the temple area was a beehive of activity once again. Only two days remained until the fourteenth of Nisan which ushered in the eight-day celebration that the Jews referred to interchangeably as the "Feast of Passover" and the "Feast of Unleavened Bread."
To the temple merchants, Nisan fourteenth was a time of business--big business. There were many thousands of pilgrims present in Jerusalem.
They had come from all over the Roman Empire.
Many of then had only Roman money or money from their homeland, and this money had to be exchanged for the "shekels" of the temple in order to be useful for the buying of sacrifices and for giving in offerings.
Those who had traveled far were unable to bring animals for sacrifice; so these had to be purchased.
This was like "Christmas" for the temple merchants. The business that they did during the Passover season often determined whether their fiscal years were successes or failures. In the same way, many businesses of our day have to depend on their volume of Christmas business for financial "success."
So on this first day of the week, the money-changers and merchants were in their booths early. No doubt they were calling out to the pilgrims who passed into the temple courts, hawking their merchandise and services.
It is no wonder that the Lord Jesus Christ, in righteous anger, said to them, "Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves." Mark 11:17. And in this we see the fulfillment of the prophecy of Malachi 3:1. "And the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts." And as we have seen, this occurred on Sunday, Nisan the eleventh.
7. Chronology: Monday and Tuesday
Monday, the Twelfth of Nisan
When the disciples saw the withered fig tree, Peter, who remembered the incident of the previous morning, called the Lord's attention to it.
"And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away. And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God." Mark 11:20-22.
Our Lord used this object lesson of the withered fig tree to deliver a great dissertation on faith and prayer.
This occurred on the second day of the week, Monday, Nisan twelfth.
We have no way of knowing whether the dawning of this Monday was the proverbial cloudless one or not.
But we can know that it was a fateful day. It was the last day that Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God, would offer Himself to God's chosen people, Israel, as their King and Messiah.
This was a day full of dramatic incidents. It was a tiring day and from the viewpoint of those unable to see God's divine plan, it was a day that ended in failure.
The Lord and His disciples entered again into Jerusalem, and went into the temple court. Here there were a long series of encounters with those who sought to discredit our Lord's testimony.
The chief priests and the scribes attacked Him in an effort to entrap Him in His own words. They first asked Him the source of His authority to do "these things." And by this, they doubtlessly referred to His cleansing of the temple the day before.
Immediately the Lord brought out clearly His source of authority when He asked, "The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men? answer me." Mark 11:30.
That ended that line of questioning, but it did not end the encounter. The Lord then related the parable of the hedged vineyard and the wicked husbandmen, in which the chief priests and scribes clearly saw themselves portrayed in the roles of the wicked husbandmen.
They were humiliated in front of the people, and they were put into confusion. "And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way." Mark 12:12.
Next it was the Pharisees' turn, and they joined forces with their old enemies, the Herodians--which was a strange combination indeed. They concocted a brilliant scheme to place the Lord Jesus Christ at odds with the Roman authorities and thus remove Him from the scene.
But the little coin with Caesar's image on it sent them crashing down in defeat. Then the Sadducees came and tried their hand. The result was the same.
The day finally drew on toward sunset after all had their turn to try to entrap Christ. All comers had been silenced. But their hatred had now crystallized. The Lord's hour was approaching.
Things were moving rapidly toward that rendezvous with the cross.
Evening, the closing of that fateful Monday and the dawning of Tuesday, was rapidly drawing near. It was probably with reluctance that the Lord, with the twelve, left the temple courts and passed beyond the walls of the city to the slopes of the Mount of Olives.
The evening sun was sinking low over toward the west side of the city, and it would soon be lost to view behind the hills. "And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here!" Mark 13:1.
This enthusiastic remark, probably made with the intent of cheering up the Lord after that trying day, set the stage for that great prophetic revelation that Bible scholars call the "Olivet Discourse." This discourse came at the close of the day on Monday, the twelfth of Nisan.
Now, let's turn our attention to a passage of Scripture that allows us to check our chronology.
The passage is found in the opening verse of Mark 14.
Here Mark wrote, "After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death."
This verse not only gives us a time mark to check our chronology, but it also verifies the records that have come down through secular channels concerning the terminology used by the Jews in our Lord's time.
Although God's Word designates the fourteenth of Nisan as the Passover and the fifteenth of Nisan as the first day of Unleavened Bread, the Jews used these terms interchangeably.
The fifteenth of Nisan, the high Sabbath of Passover, had become the focal point of the entire celebration; and it was the day commonly called "the Passover." Mark identified the day of Nisan fifteenth when he used the combination expression "the passover, and of unleavened bread" to refer to a single day.
Tuesday, the Thirteenth of Nisan
The Lord Jesus Christ and the twelve had climbed the slopes of the Mount of Olives at the close of Monday, Nisan twelfth. While they were there, the Master had delivered His discourse, which included the prophecy of the coming destruction of the temple and the city. The sun had set on
Nisan twelfth, and the evening of the thirteenth day of Nisan had just dawned. And apparently, after the discourse, they went back to Bethany for the night. At this point Mark wrote, "After two days was the passover, and of unleavened bread." Mark 14:1.
The evening was Nisan thirteenth, and the next day was to be Tuesday, Nisan thirteenth.
Two days later would be Thursday, Nisan fifteenth, the day that Mark designated as "the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread."
"And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people." Mark 14:1-2. Notice that the word "feast" is not used in Mark 14:1. The verse literally says, "After two days was the passover, and of unleavened bread."
The King James Version inserts the words "the feast of" in italics, but there is nothing in the Greek text corresponding to these words.
The expression in Mark 14:1 refers to Nisan fifteenth. And the expression "on the feast day" in Mark 14:2 apparently refers to the same day, that is, the high day of the Passover celebration, Nisan fifteenth.
So the plot began to take form. The Lord Jesus Christ was to be apprehended and slain before Nisan fifteenth. God used the modifications of the Jews to take the Lord Jesus Christ to the cross on Nisan fourteenth, God's Passover.
It was on the evening of the thirteenth of Nisan, a Tuesday, after our Lord had delivered the Olivet Discourse, that the Lord and His disciples came down off the mountain and once again headed toward Bethany. This time they went to the house of Simon the leper.
Many Bible teachers have tried to establish that the evening meal in the house of Simon the leper was the same meal as that with Martha, Mary and Lazarus, reported by John in the opening verses of chapter 12.
The reason for this is that the incident of the anointing of the Lord by the woman, described both in Mark 14:3-9 and in Matthew 26:6-13, does have many similarities to the incident of the anointing by Mary described in John 12:3-8. But careful reading also shows a great many differences.
Mary anointed the Lord's feet (John 12:3), but the woman in the house of Simon the leper anointed His head. Mark 14:3; Matthew 26:7. The Scripture seems clear that the incident mentioned by Matthew and Mark occurred on a different day and in a different house and that the anointing was performed by a different woman from that in the incident mentioned by John.
This second anointing of our Lord occurred on Tuesday evening, after the setting of the sun and the closing of Nisan twelfth.
"And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?" Mark 14:12.
This brings us to the day of Tuesday, Nisan thirteenth. This was our Lord's last day of freedom before His arrest and crucifixion.
It is confusing because Mark prefixed this record with "And the first day of unleavened bread." But we should keep in mind that the Gospel writers used terms according to the contemporary usage in their day, not strictly according to the definition of Mosaic law.
Josephus recorded that in those days the Jews celebrated "eight days of Unleavened Bread."
They included the fourteenth of Nisan, the day that Moses designated as the "Passover," in the feast of Unleavened Bread (which was only seven days long).
Josephus also said that it was customary to kill the lambs between three o'clock and five o'clock in the afternoon before the Passover Supper, which then were roasted and eaten in the evening.
The Jews of Mark's day still ate the Passover on the evening of Nisan fourteenth, but they often referred to this meal as the "first Chagigah." Alfred Edersheim in his book, The Temple--Its Ministry and Services, tells us that "the Chagigah which was strictly a peace offering might be twofold. The first Chagigah was offered on the fourteenth of Nisan, the day of the Paschal sacrifice, and formed afterwards part of the Paschal Supper.
The second Chagigah was offered on the fifteenth of Nisan, or the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread." It is this second Chagigah which the Jews were afraid they might be unable to eat, if they contracted defilement in the judgment hall of Pilate. John 18:28.
The Lord ate the "first Chagigah," which was the true Passover Supper, with His disciples. Since the Jews included the fourteenth of Nisan in their designation "the Feast of Unleavened Bread," and since they allowed the hours after three o'clock in the afternoon on Nisan thirteenth to be considered as a part of Nisan fourteenth for the purpose of the slaying of the lamb, then it seems that Mark was designating the late afternoon of Nisan thirteenth in his prefix to this exchange between our Lord and His disciples.
So it was on Tuesday, Nisan thirteenth, that the disciples asked the Lord where He wished to eat the Passover.
Evidently Judas was present when this question was put to the Lord; and since the Lord knew of Judas' plot to betray Him, He replied in a guarded way. Instead of naming the place, the Lord Jesus Christ sent Peter and John to find and follow the man bearing a pitcher of water. (By the way, this instruction was not so ambiguous as it might seem to us because men normally did not carry water in those days.) This was evidently a clever method of delaying the betrayal by Judas until after the Paschal Supper. Judas would not know until the time of the supper itself where it was to take place. This arrangement assured an uninterrupted evening following Tuesday, Nisan thirteenth.
This brings us to the evening of Nisan fourteenth, the Wednesday on which our Lord would die.
8. Chronology: Wednesday and Thursday
Wednesday, the Fourteenth of Nisan
Immediately after sundown on Tuesday afternoon, the fourteenth of Nisan began. The lamb had been slain and roasted and was now ready in the upper room.
The Lord Jesus Christ and His disciples arrived early after sunset and partook together of the Passover Feast. "And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him. And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer: For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God." Luke 22:14-16.
It was on the occasion of this evening that the disciples' feet were washed, the Lord's Supper was instituted, and that wonderful discourse of our Lord was given beginning with the words "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me." John 14:1.
The Lord Jesus Christ knew that Judas was anxious to bring the soldiers to arrest Him. So when the supper had progressed to a certain point, the Lord said to him, "That thou doest, do quickly." John 13:27.
This gave the betrayer an opportunity to get away and carry out his unholy purpose.
It is not the intent of this study to go into the details of those events of the crucifixion day.
The point that is important to our study of the chronology of the crucifixion week is that the crucifixion took place on Wednesday, Nisan fourteenth.
The Lord's body was placed in the tomb just as the sun was setting on that sad day. And with the placing of His body in the tomb, the fulfillment of the Lord's own prophecy that He would be "three days and three nights in the heart of the earth" was begun.
Three days later, again at sunset, He would come forth in resurrection life.
"The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away." John 19:31.
This verse establishes that the day following our Lord's crucifixion was a "high day." That in turn established that it was Nisan fifteenth, the great Passover Sabbath, the day that God had designated as "the first day of unleavened bread." The Passover Sabbath was the greatest Jewish Sabbath of the year.
It was not only a day of rest and worship like Saturday, the seventh-day Sabbath; but, unlike that day, this Thursday Passover Sabbath was a "high day."
The fifteenth of Nisan fell on a different day each year, and that particular year it fell on Thursday as the Scriptural "time-points" clearly affirm.
Thursday, the Fifteenth of Nisan
What happened on this particular day? Scripture provides us with a record of only one specific event. And this record is found in Matthew 27:62-66. "Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.
Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can. So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch."
One thing of significance should be noted here.
The chief priests and Pharisees said, "After three days." They were perhaps the very ones who were present when the Lord had spoken of the sign of the Prophet Jonah. And they remembered well what He had said.
It is quite likely that these events (which transpired on the day of Thursday, Nisan fifteenth) were in the minds of the two disciples on the road to Emmaus when they said, "And beside all this, today is the third day since these things were done." Luke 24:21.
To those looking on, the sealing of the tomb and the placing of the Roman guard were very much events that were to be included in the burial of the Lord Jesus Christ. Since these words were spoken on Sunday, and since the final steps of the putting away of the Lord took place on Thursday, the two disciples were absolutely correct in their statement of time.
9. Chronology: Friday Through Sunday
To conclude this study of the chronology of the crucifixion week, let's direct our attention to a passage from the Gospel of Mark. In his description of these events, Mark provides final verification of the chronology that we have established:
"And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre. And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid. And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun. And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?
And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great." Mark 15:46-16:4.
Our Lord Jesus Christ was placed in the sepulchre, but it was necessary that those looking on hasten home because the High Passover Sabbath had arrived. Mark 15:47 tells us; "And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid." This verse refers to the events that took place late in the afternoon of Wednesday, Nisan fourteenth.
The wording of this verse seems to infer that the women observed the Lord's body being placed on the shelf in Joseph's new tomb, but that they did not remain on the scene as the heavy stone was rolled in place.
Now the very next verse in Mark's Gospel, Mark 16:1, says, "And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him." The word "Sabbath" as used in this verse is singular. The reference is to the High Passover Sabbath, which occurred on Thursday, Nisan fifteenth.
The bringing of the sweet spices, described in Mark 16:1, was a separate visit from the coming of the women to the tomb--that visit which took place early on the first day of the week, as described in Mark 16:2. Mark 16:1 describes an event that took place on Friday, Nisan sixteenth.
Friday, the Sixteenth of Nisan
"And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid." Mark 15:47.
Again, the inference of this statement is that the women saw the Lord's body placed in the sepulchre but that they left before the stone was rolled in place to seal the door. Therefore, it is possible that they did not realize the impossibility of gaining access to the Lord's body without outside help.
The Roman seal and the Roman guard were established on Thursday morning. The seal and the guard were to insure that the tomb was not opened until the three days were definitely past. It is entirely possible that the women were not aware of the Thursday development.
After the High Sabbath, the women (on Friday, Nisan sixteenth) "bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him." But on arriving at the tomb they found the heavy stone in place, the official Roman seal on it, and the Roman guard posted to make sure that no one touched that seal until after the third day had passed. So the women found it necessary to return to their homes to await the passing of three full days (which included the seventh-day Sabbath) before they could again attempt to anoint the Lord's body.
The Gospel of Luke also confirms that there were two visits to the tomb by those faithful women.
The two visits are seen in the passage contained in Luke 23:55-56. "And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment."
The statement of verse 55 indicates that the women did observe the body of our Lord Jesus Christ placed in the tomb at sundown on the day of His crucifixion. Then verse 56 says, "And they returned and prepared spices and ointments..." This speaks of that first visit to the tomb on Friday, Nisan sixteenth.
The women were unable to anoint the Lord's body because of the stone with its affixed seal and the Roman guard that had been set by Pilate. Unable to complete the task that they had attempted on that Friday, Luke says that they "rested the sabbath day according to the commandment."
Saturday, the Seventeenth of Nisan
Notice that the statement of Luke 23:56, that they "prepared spices and ointments," comes before the statement of the same verse that they "rested the sabbath day according to the commandment."
The spices and ointments were prepared on Friday, Nisan sixteenth, but they were not used that day. The statement about the Sabbath day refers to the seventh-day Sabbath, which occurred on Saturday, Nisan seventeenth.
The second visit, as recorded in Luke 23:1, occurred on Sunday, Nisan eighteenth, the first day of the week.
Recall that Matthew 28:1-2 tells us that "in the end of the sabbaths, as it was dawning toward the first day of the week," came the angel and the earthquake.
The word "sabbaths" here is plural, and by using this plural form Matthew indicated that both the High Sabbath of Nisan fifteenth and the seventh-day Sabbath of Nisan seventeenth had passed.
The Lord broke the bonds of death and came forth from the tomb. All prophecy concerning His death, burial and resurrection was literally and precisely fulfilled!
Sunday, the Eighteenth of Nisan
Mark 16:2-3 tells us of that second visit of the women to the tomb, which Mark asserted was early in the morning on the first day of the week. "And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun. And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?"
This passage definitely indicates that the women had knowledge of the presence of the stone before they arrived at the tomb early on Sunday morning. And it also infers that the time limit set by Pilate as to how long the tomb must be sealed and guarded by Roman soldiers (three full days) had passed. The women felt sure of access to the tomb if only they could find someone with adequate physical strength to roll away the stone.
The record of the second visit to the tomb by the women is confirmed by the opening verses of Luke 24. The evangelist wrote, "Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre, And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus."
But the absence of His body was not loss.
The answer of the angelic beings has been the victorious cry of Christians ever since:
"He is not here, but is risen!"
10. Chronology of Crucifixion Week Illustrated
FRIDAY - Nisan 9th
John 12:1--"Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany..."
Jericho to Bethany
Last Half of Journey
SATURDAY -Nisan 10th
John 12:12,13--"On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna..."
Mark 11:11--"And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve."
The Triumphal Entry
Jewish Seventh-Day Sabbath
"Palm Saturday"
SUNDAY - Nisan 11th
Mark 11:12,13--"And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came..."
Mark 11:15--"And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple..."
Mark 11:19--"And when even was come, he went out of the city."
Cursing of the Fig Tree
Cleansing of the Temple
MONDAY -Nisan 12th
Mark 11:20--"And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots."
Mark 11:27--"And they come again to Jerusalem..."
--Late in Day--
Matt. 24:1--"And Jesus went out..."
Matt. 24:3--"...He sat upon the mount of Olives..."
Matt. 26:2--"Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover..."
Battles with His Enemies
Announces that After Two Days the Passover
TUESDAY -Nisan 13th
Matt. 26:6,7--"Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment..."
--Afternoon--
Matt. 26:17--"Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?
Matt. 26:19--"And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover."
Olivet Discourse Concluded
Supper at Simon's House
On Next Afternoon Peter and John Prepare Passover
WEDNESDAY -Nisan 14th
--Just After Sunset--
Matt. 26:20--"Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve."
--Then came Gethsemane and the arrest, the religious trial before day, the trial before Pilate in the morning, the crucifixion by noon--
Mark 15:42,43--"And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath..."
--Joseph of Arimathea went unto Pilate and requested the body of Jesus which he buried in his own tomb.
Mark 15:47--"And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid."
God's Passover
Jews' "Preparation Day"
Passover Eaten
Jesus Crucified "Between the Evenings"
"Good Wednesday"
THURSDAY -Nisan 15th
Matt. 27:62--"Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate." And secured a watch for the tomb.
John 19:31--"...For that sabbath day was an high day..."
Lev. 23:6--"And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD..."
Lev. 23:7--"...Ye shall do no servile work therein."
Passover Sabbath
(The Day of "Passover and Unleavened Bread")
Jesus in Tomb
FRIDAY -Nisan 16th
Mark 16:1--"And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him."
Luke 23:56--"And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments..."
Preparation Day of Seventh-Day Sabbath
First Visit of the Women
Jesus in Tomb
SATURDAY -Nisan 17th
Luke 23:56--"And rested the sabbath day according to the commandment."
Matt. 28:2--"And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it."
Seventh-Day Sabbath
Jesus in Tomb
Resurrection at Sundown
SUNDAY -Nisan 18th
Luke 24:1--"Now upon the first day of the week, very early on the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them."
Luke 24:2--"And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre."
Luke 24:3--"And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus."
Lev. 23:10,11--"...Then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest...On the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it."
Discovery of the Resurrection
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I DID, after Sunset Tues NOW makes it Passover, Wed when He was sacrificed was STILL Passover, or Preperation day.
He KNEW He was going to be Sacrificed on Passover
Luke 22:15-16 NASB
(15) And He said to them, "I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer;
(16) for I say to you, I shall never again eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God."
John 19:14 NASB
Now it was the day of preparation for the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!"
These verse makes it CLEAR when Yahshua was Sacrificed.
Yahshua was sacrificed THE HOUR the Priests Sacrificed The Lamb in The Temple.
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Yes I read the OT on Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread
He ate it AFTER sunset Tues (now Wed in God's calendar), making it PASSOVER.
You have to be stubborn and ignore the verses I posted to make Friday work.
Did you read all of what I put in my last post?
I read them. That's why I states it was a good thought provoking post.
I'm waiting for you to Reconcile the verses in the 3 Gospels that show Jesus ate the last Supper on the 1st Day of Unleavened Bread. ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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I believe Christ was crucified on a Friday or otherwise called in the Old Testament as Preparation day. He did rise from the dead ON the 3rd Day, not after 3 days.
Can't find ANYPLACE in Ther Bible where it refers to Friday as Preperation day
I have to leave, I know I read this in the Old Testament I'll get back to you. ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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Yes I read the OT on Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread
He ate it AFTER sunset Tues (now Wed in God's calendar), making it PASSOVER.
You have to be stubborn and ignore the verses I posted to make Friday work.
Did you read all of what I put in my last post?
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you are being stubborn, now. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
Yes all 8 days were considered the Passover time.
Yet scripture is very precise about when Jesus ate the Last Supper.
Matthew 26:17 " on THE FIRST DAY OF UNLEAVENED BREAD...WHERE DO YOU WANT US TO PREPARE FOR YOU TO EAT THE PASSOVER."
Mark 14:12 "And on the FIRST DAY OF UNLEAVENED BREAD WHEN THE PASSOVER LAMB WAS BEING SACRIFICED, HIS DISCIPLES SAID TO JESUS WHERE DO YOU WANT TO EAT THE PASSOVER?"
Luke 22:7 "THEN CAME THE FIRST DAY DAY OF UNLEAVENED BREAD ON WHICH THE PASSOVER LAMB HAD TO BE SACRIFICED."
I must ask did you even read the references in Exodus, Lev, and Numbers and Deut which outline the rules for this 8 days of feasting?
Jesus was not CRUCIFIED ON THAT DAY, AS HE IS RECORDED TO BE HAVING THE LAST SUPPER.
The Jews would not have dared to crucify Him on this particular day, as it would have required "work". They crucified Christ on the 2nd Day of Unleavened Bread which was not a day to cease labor.
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I believe Christ was crucified on a Friday or otherwise called in the Old Testament as Preparation day. He did rise from the dead ON the 3rd Day, not after 3 days.
Can't find ANYPLACE in Ther Bible where it refers to Friday as Preperation day
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Yahshua was sacrificed on PASSOVER, the day BEFORE the Feast of Unleavened bread.
That makes the day after His sacrifice a Sabbath.
John 13:1-2 NASB
(1) Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.
(2) During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray Him,
John 18:28 NASB
(28) Then they *led Jesus from Caiaphas into the Praetorium, and it was early; and they themselves did not enter into the Praetorium so that they would not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.
John 18:39 NASB
(39) "But you have a custom that I release someone for you at the Passover; do you wish then that I release for you the King of the Jews?"
John 19:14 NASB
(14) Now it was the day of preparation for the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. And he *said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!"
In the whole Passover / Feast of Unleavened Bread feast period, Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread are used interchangeably to refer the the whole time frame.
Passover, also called The Preperation Day, is the day the lamb was killled.
Passover POINTS to Yahshua's sacrifice as The Lamb of God
1 Corinthians 5:7 NASB
(7) Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.
Yahshua IS our Passover
Mark 16:1-2
(1) When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, so that they might come and anoint Him.
(2) Very early on the first day of the week, they *came to the tomb when the sun had risen.
Luke 23:54-24:1
(54) It was the preparation day, and the Sabbath was about to begin.
(55) Now the women who had come with Him out of Galilee followed, and saw the tomb and how His body was laid.
(56) Then they returned and prepared spices and perfumes. And on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
(1) But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared.
If you look closely at these verses, with the lens of tradition taken off, you will see that Yahshua COULD NOT have been crucified on Friday.
It was the preparation day, and the Sabbath was about to begin.
Understanding this verse is KEY to the timeline.
The preparation day was Passover, the Sabbath that was about to begin was The Feast of Unleavened Bread, not the normal Saturday Sabbath (which does NOT have a preparation day).
When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, so that they might come and anoint Him.
Then they returned and prepared spices and perfumes. And on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
These two verses CLEARLY show 2 Sabbath days, with a day in between.
You CAN NOT make these verses work with a Friday Crucifixion.
Wednesday: Passover –Preparation Day - Yahshua was sacrificed as The Lamb of God according to the Scriptures.
Thursday: Feast of Unleavened Bread - A Sabbath day
Friday: Normal non Sabbath day – Women go buy herbs and prepare them .
Saturday: Sabbath – Women rest after buying and preparing spices.
Sunday Sunrise: Tomb already empty.
Matthew 12:40
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.
3 days: Thursday, Friday, Saturday
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3 nights: Wednesday Night, Thursday Night, Friday Night
Resurrected at Sunset Saturday – Which by God’s calendar is when Sunday begins
Genesis 1:5
God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
Matthew 12:40 – 3 days AND 3 nights - CAN NOT be fulfilled with a Friday crucifixion.
This makes the counting partial days concept VOID.
If you go and study The Feasts of Yahweh (they were NOT Jewish feast, they were God’s)
You will discover that the day Yahshua rose from the dead was the Feast of First Fruits.
1 Corinthians 15:20-23
(20) But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep.
(21) For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead.
(22) For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.
(23) But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ's at His coming
The Feast of First Fruits is Yahwheh’s APPOINTED time for The Resurrection of The Messiah, easter is NOT in The Bible, why did MAN choose to change it?
Why did men feel it was necessary to do this?
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Good Friday? Or what?
When was Yahshua The Messiah crucified.
The RCC created a holiday called “Good Friday” to celebrate this wondrous sacrificial act of our Master and Savior.
Then in turn the protestant church, and all it’s break off denominations inherited, and accepted this “holiday?”
But how Biblical is this?
Upon examination of God’s Breathed Scriptures, it’s clear the people within the RCC (the only “official” church at the time so this isn’t catholic bashing – only the truth) didn’t search The Scriptures very deeply .....
Wednesday – Passover – non Sabbath – Yahshua sacrificed.
Thursday – Feast of Unleavened Bread - Sabbath
Friday – non Sabbath day – Mary, Mary and Salome go to the market to buy spices, go home and prepare them.
Saturday – Sabbath day
Sunday, at first dawn – women go to tomb – Yahshua already resurrected.
So “Good Friday” is FALSE
It happened on Wednesday
It’s EASY to discover – doesn’t take a seminary degreed theologian to find the truth.
You present an interesting arguement here, but upon reading it I didn't feel convinced.
You have several intriguing points about the 2 Sabbaths, but I beg to disagree in that the 1st Day of the Feast of Unleavend Bread was called a technical "Sabbath". by the Jews. It was considered a Holy Day and one in which no one was to do any laborious work except to prepare whatever food was to be eaten, but it was not called a Sabbath Day.
I've been reading up before responding to your post.
In Numbers 28:16, Exodus 12:1-20, and Leviticus 23:1-8 are the rules appointed by God for the Passover and 7 day Feast of Unleavened Bread. So there are 8 total days here.
In Matt 26:17, Mark 14:12, and Luke 22:7-13 they all agree that Jesus and his disciples had the Last Supper on the 1st Day of Unleavened Bread when the Passover Lamb was being slain.
You are correct this particular day was a day ordered for No work, and to be holy to God as was the last day of the 7 period of Unleavened Bread.
So this "Sabbath" of the 1st Day of Unleavend Bread was the evening before the Crucifixion, and you are correct the next day would not have been a day to (not work), as that next holy day would have been 6 days away, on the 7th day of Unleavend Bread.
So there were NOT 2 Sabbaths between Christ's death and Resurrection as you assume, or even 2 Holy Days just a day apart. Jesus was alive on that 1st day of Unleavened Bread. That was the same day that the passover lamb was slain that Jesus ate the last Supper or passover meal.
So after the Last Supper was eaten the 1st day of Unleavend Bread was done at sunset that day, and this allowed the Pharisees to seize Jesus in Gethsemene that night as now the 1st holy day was over.
The other point of difficulty is in Matthew 12:40 about the 3 days and 3 nights.
This is the only place is says exactly 3 days and 3 nights, and this seems to conflict with all other sayings by Christ as in Matthew 16:21, Matt. 17:23, Matt. 20:19, and John 2:19, where it says that Christ will be raised the 3rd day.
If Christ was actually in the earth for 3 full days and 3 full nights, that means Christ would be raised on the 4rth day, then it conflicts with His being raised the 3rd Day,,,Does it not?
Now I'm slightly in a quandary here.
Until I went back to Jonah 1:17 which relates to what Jesus said in Matthew 12:40 about the 3 days and 3 nights.
The words in Jonah 1:17 jumped out at me: Jonah was in the stomach of the fish for 3 days and 3 nights."
Now at the Last Supper did not Jesus have the 1st communion with His disciples? He said this is MY BODY, take and eat. The Disciples had eaten spiritually the BODY of Christ and Christ spiritually was in their "stomach" and were not the Disciples the first FISH and Christ the Fisherman?
I believe Christ was crucified on a Friday or otherwise called in the Old Testament as Preparation day. He did rise from the dead ON the 3rd Day, not after 3 days.
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thank you. I had only As and Fs in University, so that everyone could tell which subjects I liked, and which subjects I did not like but was forced to take. TGIT, that's the one I'm on.
You have no idea how much I can relate to this!
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My hacked use from a strange Bible is the literal Greek that unlies the KJV. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
This is your from the "lieral Greek" that unlies the KJV? LOL
"It is all preparation my friend...
Daniel 7:25 and words as an adversary of the Most High it doth speak, and the saints of the Most High it doth wear out, and it hopeth to change seasons and law; and they are given into its hand, till a time, and times, and a division of a time."
Pay attention to the "it" doth speak and the "hopeth" to change in your "lieral Greek" that unlies the KJV.
Now this is the KJV that I posted with expaination.
And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
The period of the little horn's reign is of short duration: "they shall be given into his hand untill a time and times and the dividing of time"
"Time".......................1 year
"Times" .....................2 years
"Dividing of time" ..........1/2 year
Total ...................... 3&1/2 years
It is during the last three and one-half years of the Great Tribulation that he will reign over the earth. (see Rev. 11:2-3; 12:6; 13:5)
Now compare your "it" to the "he" shall speak and the "hopeth" to the "think" to change.
Your preparation sounds more like some ramblings from Nostradamus.
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thank you. I had only As and Fs in University, so that everyone could tell which subjects I liked, and which subjects I did not like but was forced to take. TGIT, that's the one I'm on.
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