Well, I would like to cast in my view on the subject to which will be foreign in nature to many of you because it is not thought anywhere.
But you will hear it here.
God is a methodical God. I think that not having to prove it in light of all the cosmos, the earth and the oceans beneath is evidence enough.
The story of the Fathers creation is 7 days. He worked 6 and rested on the seventh day.
The story of the Son's creation is one day, and then He rested as part of that day.
If Jesus was stated as being in the tomb 3 days and 3 nights, then His crucifixion would have commenced on a Wednesday for the full completion of the 3 days and 3 nights.
That would place Jesus' resurrection on the Sunday morning as stated.
However, there is one problem, and that is that if Jesus was to rest on the Sabbath Sunday following, then Jesus must have been crucified on a Friday.
That would come in conflict with the 3 days and 3 nights in that if He were crucified on a Friday, His resurrection would then be on Monday morning instead of Sunday morning but not in conflict with His resting on the eve of the Sabbath, being Saturday.
The claim is, Sunday morning resurrection.
Explanation on why that is true.
Let me first reference a few scriptures to make my point.
The day Jesus is crucified is referenced to "in that day" as meaning one full day.
Ref: Isa 11:10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
So we see that "In that day" His rest shall be glorious, meaning mission accomplished and resting, seated at the right hand of the Father.
That day does have significance as if that day were the 7 day creation story, but done in one whole day instead of 7.
God, being a methodical God follows that Jesus should rest on the 7th day.
Jesus then is crucified on a day, Friday, resting on the Sabbath as planned.
Here is how that is accomplished so that the full 3 days and 3 nights are fulfilled completely.
Refs: Job 3:4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
Job 3:5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Job 3:6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
Job 3:7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
Here God has cursed that day : Jer 20:14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
That day is the Day, Christianity was born, but not before taking the curse of death away by it.
That day then was taken out of time : ..."let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months."...
What God has done was take that Friday out of time, because that day was cursed (6th day) shifting the 7th in the 6th place, the 8th day in the 7th's place.
Counting then the full 3 days and three nights Jesus was in the tomb, resurrecting 3 full days and nights later on the 8th day, or the first day of the week.
The week in time was broken between two creations, the old and the new by taking out one day.
The old was nailed to the cross while the new was resurrected in a new week.
That is consistent with the week and or of years of Jubilee.
Lev 25:11 A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
You see, when Jesus accomplished His work, He liberated us all to where we can now rest from our works as in "ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it", for God in Jesus has already fulfilled the need for us, allowing to rest in Jesus.
Jesus then is our rest, our Sabbath.
Read up on the passages about the Jubile and see if you can not see the works of Jesus in them.
Blessings, AJ
