![]() Following that high holy day (Friday) Sabbath came the normal, weekly Sabbath observance on Saturday. Therefore, Jesus died and was buried on Passover, a Thursday, which was also the day of preparation (John 19:14) prior to the start of a high day Sabbath for the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread is always a high day Sabbath according to scripture (Lev 23:6-8), which matches the Bible's testimony that the day after Jesus' death was a Sabbath. Jesus died on Passover, and the Jewish feast of Passover is always followed the next day by another Jewish feast called the Feast of Unleavened Bread. If Jesus was in the grave three days and three nights and rose before dawn on Sunday, then there is simply not enough time available for Jesus to have died on a Friday and risen before daybreak on a Sunday. Matthew 12:40 requires that Jesus be crucified on a Thursday.īut wasn't the day after Jesus died a Sabbath? Yes, but the Bible says the day after Jesus' death was not a normal Saturday Sabbath but rather a "high day" Sabbath: John 19:31 Then the Jews, because it was the day of preparation so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.Ī high day Sabbath refers to a special Sabbath day required by a feast observance regardless of the day of the week upon which it falls. Therefore, we start counting with the Saturday nighttime period and move back three daytime periods and three nighttime periods: We cannot count Sunday daytime itself, however, because Scripture says Jesus was out of the grave before dawn on Sunday. So we can begin counting backward three days and three nights from Sunday to arrive at the day Jesus died. ![]() The first day of the week in the Jewish calendar is Sunday, and the Bible says the tomb was discovered empty on a Sunday. Luke 24:3 but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. ![]() Luke 24:2 And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, Scripture says Jesus was raised before sunrise on the first day of the week: Luke 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. While Scripture never names the specific day of the week on which Jesus dies, it does tell us the day Jesus rose from the dead. In Jewish reckoning, "day" and "night" refers to periods of light and dark in a 24-hour day, so any part of the daylight hours counts as a "day" and any part of the nighttime hours counts as "night." Therefore, "three days and three nights" requires counting at least part of three separate daytime and nighttime periods.but on which day of the week do we begin counting? 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. Scripture says clearly that Jesus spent three days and three nights in the grave: Matt. The traditional teaching within the church is that Jesus was crucified on a Friday, and churches commonly observe the Friday before Easter Sunday as the day of Jesus' death, but a Friday observance is a matter of church tradition rather than biblical truth.
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