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Old 04-04-2011, 05:16 PM
theophilus theophilus is offline
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Good Wednesday

Two days before Easter we observe Good Friday as the day on which Jesus was crucified. For anyone who is familiar with Jesus' predictions about his death and resurrection this raises a problem. He said that he just as Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights he would be in the earth three days and three nights. But how could this be if he was crucified on Friday and resurrected on Sunday? Three days are involved if you count the Saturday between them but there is no way the time he was buried could be three days and three nights.

The Bible says that the women who discovered that his tomb was empty came early on the first day of the week, which in the Jewish calendar was Sunday, so there is no doubt about which day the resurrection took place.

But was the crucifixion really on Friday? The Bible says it took place on the day before the Sabbath, and since Saturday is the Sabbath it would seem that it must have been on a Friday. But John 19:31 says, "That Sabbath was a high day." Does this mean that it wasn't the regular weekly Sabbath?

The Sabbath was a day in which work was prohibited. Leviticus 23 shows that there was more than one kind of Sabbath. Verse three says that the seventh day of every week was a Sabbath. But the rest of the chapter describes annual feasts that the Israelites were to observe and they included days in which work was forbidden. These Sabbaths were to be observed on a specific day of the month so they could fall on any day of the week.

Jesus was crucified on Passover, which was the 14th day of the first month. Leviticus 23:6,7 shows that Passover was followed immediately by the seven day Feast of Unleavened Bread and the first day of this feast, which was the day after Passover, was day in which work was forbidden. Since this day was on the 15th day of the month it could fall on any day of the week.

On what day of the week must Jesus have been crucified if he was to stay buried for three days and three nights? He was taken down from the cross and buried just before sunset, which the Jews considered the start of the new day. If the crucifixion was on a Wednesday then he would have been buried all of Thursday, the Sabbath which was the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread; Friday, which was a regular work day; and Saturday, the regular weekly Sabbath. His resurrection occurred just after sunset on Saturday, when the first day of the week began, and the women came to the tomb the next morning and found it empty. People often speak of his resurrection as taking place on Sunday morning but in fact that was when the women discovered that the tomb was empty.

Luke 23:54-56 shows clearly that this was what happened. "It was the day of Preparation, and the Sabbath was beginning. The women who had come with him from Galilee followed and say the tomb and how his body was laid. Then they returned and prepared spices and ointment. On the Sabbath day they rested according to the commandment." The women saw Jesus buried as the Sabbath was beginning, prepared spices and ointment to anoint his body, and then rested on the Sabbath. These must have been two different Sabbath, because they wouldn't have had time to prepare the spices on the same day as the burial. On Friday they prepared the spices but couldn't put them on Jesus' body that day because the tomb was being guarded by Roman soldiers.

The practice of observing Good Friday arose because the belief arose that the Sabbath after the crucifixion and the Sabbath before the resurrection were the same day. If people understood the Bible better we would probably celebrate Good Wednesday instead.
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Old 04-04-2011, 09:30 PM
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One Professor suggested that Matthew was incorrect, pointing out that it is to be noted that these are not the words of Jesus but the explanation of Matthew. When Luke reports the incident (Luke 11:29-32, he makes no mention at all of Jonah being in the belly of the whale. He simply says that Jesus said: 'For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so the Son of Man will be to this generation' (Luke 11:30).
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Old 05-04-2011, 03:38 PM
theophilus theophilus is offline
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Even if some of the words in Matthew are his explanation rather than the actual words of Jesus they are still part of the scripture. If we believe that the scriptures are inspired by God we must accept them as true.

There are other places where this kind of uncertainty exists. I have heard some claim that John 3:16-21 is John's comment on what Jesus said rather than the actual words of Jesus. In my opinion it doesn't matter whether this is the case or not. This passage is part of the inspired word of God whether spoken by Jesus or added by John when he was writing his gospel.
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Old 05-04-2011, 08:58 PM
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Flags were raised within when hearing this Professors explanation. Wholeheartedly agreeing with you theophilus, but I did think that the Professor did point something out, and that is what Luke was saying, the differences that are between them in these scriptures.



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Then certaine of the Scribes, and of the Pharisees, answered, saying, Master, we would see a signe from thee. But hee answered, and said to them, An euill and adulterous generation seeketh after a signe, and there shall no signe be giuen to it, but the signe of the Prophet Ionas. For as Ionas was three dayes and three nights in the whales belly: so shal the sonne of man be three daies and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Someone pointed out that Luke was reporting a different incident. In Matthew, Jesus was talking to SCRIBES and PARISEES, answering a direct question. In Luke, Jesus was making a statement to "the people" NOT answering a question.
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Old 06-04-2011, 09:07 PM
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Jesus was buried during parts of three different days: Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
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Old 15-04-2011, 05:03 PM
Jerry Cotton
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Jesus was buried during parts of three different days: Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

You are correct Agiosotheos. Jesus died on the day before the Sabbath (Mark 15:42) and resurrected on the first day of the week, which was the third day since the crucifixion (Luke 24:21) and the day after the sabbath (Matthew 28:1). The Wednesday Crucifixion view does take care of Matthew 12:40 but it doesn't take care of the fact that the Jews often counted parts of days as whole days. Jesus was crucified on Friday and resurrected on Sunday.
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