Subject: if Jesus died on Friday and rose Sunday |
Bible Note: I have to disagree, I personally have been trying to figure out Matt 12:40 about the "three days and three nights" for about a month now. I admit I don't have an answer to it yet, but I am still looking. The reason I don't then conclude that Jesus died on Thursday is that the scriptures from death to resurrection give evidence of what day the crucifixion occurred. I will start with the death and move forward from that. The death of Jesus happened on a little after the ninth hour of a day(Matthew 27:45-50), that we are not certain of at this point.(Ninth hour is 3pm)It does not give the exact time, but that is the last hour that we are given. This is the first day, because in those days even part of the day, or night, was counted. This was also in Mark 15:33 and Luke 23:44. From vs 51-56 are not important to the time of the events. Then in Matthew 27:57 "When it was evening" Joseph collected the body and put it in the tomb. This is also in Mark 15:42. Luke and John are slightly different and give more information, it says in Luke 23:54 "It was the day of Preparation, and the Sabbath was beginning." and in John 19:42 "So because of the Jewish day of Preparation, since the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there." Both of these two are saying that they put Jesus in the tomb on the Preparation day, which is Friday. Then (Matthew 27:62) "Next day, that is, after the day of Preparation." This is the day after Jesus was put in the tomb and the second day of him being dead. It says that it is the day after the preparation, which again is Friday. If you need clarification that Friday is preparation day, look at Luke 23:54 again, what it says is that the Sabbath is beginning and the Sabbath begins at 6pm on Friday. I am trying to show through this that the night of Jesus' death Joseph put him in the tomb. I see it established through all four gospels that Jesus died on the preparation day, which is Friday. So, Friday is the first day, Saturday the Second, and it was on the third day, Sunday, that he was raised. I know that this does have the problem of it is only two nights, but I don't see how there could a mistake from the gospels of what day he died. I have been trying to figure this out ever since I have found Matthew 12:40, but I cannot ignore the gospels clear representation of what day he died to make it so this one verse is true. If I do then I make most of the verses I quoted in this post False. I would like to hear what you guys have to say. Brother in Christ, Rex |