Jesus died on Wednesday not Friday

[andy]

It amazes me when I hear the question if Jesus died on Friday how did God raise him from the dead on Sunday. Scripture tells us Jesus was in the grave 3 days and 3 nights.

Friday to Sunday is not 3 days and 3 nights so this is incorrect. Jesus was in the grave 3 days and 3 nights.

Jesus died on Wednesday and rose 3 days later as scripture tells us, which I will give after I get some responses.

 

[Natural Submission]

It amazes me when I hear the question if Jesus died on Friday how did God raise him from the dead on Sunday. Scripture tells us Jesus was in the grave 3 days and 3 nights.

Friday to Sunday is not 3 days and 3 nights so this is incorrect. Jesus was in the grave 3 days and 3 nights.

Jesus died on Wednesday and rose 3 days later as scripture tells us, which I will give after I get some responses.

Well that's just it, Jesus was put in the tomb on Friday evening just before the Sabbath was to begin. It was prohibited to have him on the cross after sundown on Friday, as that was when the Sabbath began. He was historically put on the cross on Friday, and there is no dispute about this.

His body was gone on Sunday. Yes, this is only one and a half days. You cannot change history to fulfill your desires. Jesus simply was NOT in the tomb three days and three nights.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

I have a dissertation from a French lady who held to a similar view. I will dig it up tonight and post the title.

 

[SoliDeoGloria]

I have a chronological Bible that has a commentary on that subject that makes a pretty strong case for the Jesus dieing on wednesday thing based on the idea that there were actually two sabbaths that week and that the jewish day actually starts at 6 p.m. the previous day. The first one being a special sabbath for the passover which would actually have been on friday (starting at 6 p.m. thursday night). Basically, Jesus would've had to have been crucified on wednesday, be buried before the passover sabbath which took place that friday (which started at 6 p.m. thursday night our time) and didn't come out of the grave until that sunday. It is some interesting stuff, but in all reality a secondary issue. Just thought I would put my two cents in .

Sincerely,
SoliDeoGloria

 

[andy]

Matthew 12:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Jesus was in the grave 3 days and nights as the Bible says.

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 an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

The Sabbath was a high day Sabbath, high day Sabbath is not the same as the Hebrew weekly Sabbath which was Saturday.

Leviticus 23:5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD’S passover.
Leviticus 23:6,7 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.

This is the high day Sabbath Jesus died B/4 not the weekly Sabbath.

Wednesday night
Thursday day= 1 day+1 night

Thursday night
Friday day= 1 day+1 night

Friday night
Saturday day= 1 day+ 1 night

3 days and 3 nights, Sunday Jesus was already risen as the Angel told Mary.

 

[patronkerr]

I would just point out that days were not named, as we know them in the West, until the 5th Century. As far as months were concerned, these were a complete mess until Pope Gregory XIII reformed the calender in 1582.
I refer interested readers to 'The Calendar' by David Ewing Duncan. (4th Estate 2000) It is subtitled 'The 5000-year struggle to align the clock and the heavens - and what happened to the missing ten days'.
Go read. Any argument about the actual date of Christ's birth is a waste of time.

 

[Pah]

I understand that a part of the day is considered a day. Friday would be the first day Saturday would be the second and Sunday would be the third. Friday counts as a day as long as it is before dusk; Sunday counts as a day as long as it is after sunrise. That would be three days - part of Friday, Saturday, and part of Sunday

 

[andy]

In Biblical times no one could be officially pronounced dead until he had been in the grave for 72 hours, 3 days and 3 nights. Jesus was here to fulfill the law, this is why Jesus had to remain in the grave 3 days and 3 nights.

Matthew 12:40 so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
If Jesus died on Friday and rose on Sunday, 1 night would be missing. Jesus would of not fulfilled the law.

Matthew 27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

The ninth hour would have corresponded to 3:00 in the afternoon on the 14th, this was the day B/4 the High Day Sabbath. High day Sabbath is not the weekly Sabbath.

The Judean day began at 6:00 P.M. or sunset, the day was known back then.

 

[Green Gaia]

Ummm... does it matter? I mean, if you believe he arose and came out of the tomb, what does it matter how long he was in there? It's still a miracle, isn't it?

 

[Dinogrrl]

Ummm... does it matter? I mean, if you believe he arose and came out of the tomb, what does it matter how long he was in there? It's still a miracle, isn't it?

That's my question...

 

[Ronald]

Moed, appointed time. On God's time, three whole days and three whole nights. Passover, first fruits and unleavened bread. Nisan 14,preparation day, in tomb at the beginning of 15th, 16 and 17. The 18th the first day of the week the tomb was empty! Why not parts of three days? The Truth will set you free! Part of three days, works of Hasatan! The father of lies.

 

[andy]

Yes it does matter greatly, for the word of God is truth and witout error. When man claims Jesus died on Friday when he did not. This is not the word of God but man. Are we not to rightly divide the word and study to show our self approved unto God.

It matters a great deal, the word of God is the word. When man places errors in the word of God, it changes the weight of the word.

And if were to teach others, are we teaching them the word of God or man's word. Should we teach what is correct or not?

 

[Green Gaia]

OK.... just wondering.

 

[andy]

High day Sabbath, the Hebrews were told by Moses from God to sprinkle the blood of a sacrificed lamb on the 2 side-posts of the house and the beam over the door way. The angel of death saw the blood the destroyer had to pass over the house and could not destroy it's first born. This is called the "Passover", this is also why the lamb which was killed at that time was called the "Passover Lamb".

God commanded the children of Isreal to celebrate the event every year. This is the HIGH DAY SABBATH.

Deuteronomy 16:1-7 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. 2Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there. 3Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life. 4And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning. 5Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee: 6But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.

 

[andy]

He is risen

 

[true blood]

The days matter if your trying to figure out what happened. If Jesus died on a Wed. then the last supper wasn't a Passover meal, as tradition teaches.

 

[sultanramza]

If Jesus died on wednesday it could still be celebrated as a Passover. I belive that it was not a traditional passover in which the blood of lambs and goats were shed, but a Passover to the Lamb of God being slain.

 

[groovydancer88]

Welcome to the forums, sultanramza! You should introduce yourself to everyone at 'Are you new to Relgious Forums'.

 

[true blood]

Jesus Christ being sacrificed on a Wed is significant in explaining what prompted God's ordaining observance called Passover. It began with Joseph in Egypt up to the tenth and final plague, the angel of death, "the destroyer". For protection against "the destroyer", God instructed the people to sprinkle the blood of a sacrificed lamb. Upon seeing the blood, "the destroyer", had to pass over and could not destroy. Even the lamb has it's significants and the bible gets into detail about the flesh and the blood and no broken bones etc..

As the story contines God instructs Moses to declare to the people procedors for subsequent Passovers including some changes found in Deut 16:4-7,16. The lamb was to now be killed outside of the gates of the city. Also other laws, not commanded by God but by men were added. Some were God ordained and other's did not have God's sanction. There is even a moment in time when the original month was called "Abib" until the kingdom of Judah was taken captive to Babylon and as a result of Babylonian influence, the month became called "Nisan". Fortold in the book of Esther 3:7.

In his way Jesus Christ fulfilled all of the God sanctioned laws so long as he did in fact die on a Wed. not Friday. However I'm sure Jesus Christ does not mind people marking it as Friday. Why it's an issue is because many think he traditionally died on friday therefore couldn't have been dead three days and three nights, not fulfilling the law producing negative belief.

 

[Lostinthisworld]

So what !