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To make a long story short, I agree with hubel458 and respectfully disagree with HiTech RedNeck.

Twist it all you want in an attempt to fit the traditions many of us grew up with, you cannot get three nights out of a Friday crucifixion and a Sunday resurrection.

[HiTech RedNeck]

If such rather nonintuitive language wasn’t already used in Jewish religious tradition, I too would say nonsense.

But it is used. And that’s the culture in which Christianity and the early church had its start, and that’s why there’s no scandal about Good Friday being Good Friday and not Good Wednesday.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Oh, and I did not grow up with Christianity. I came to it well into adulthood and asked a heck of a lot of questions in the process. Having been raised in a Jewish synagogue, I grokked more of the cultural background of Jesus than the average churchgoer does. Also, Alfred Edersheim's The Life And Times of Jesus the Messiah is a classic late 19th century work on the Jewish background of the Christian church. By a Jewish man who also came to Christianity as an adult, and having ready access to Jewish traditional works in their original language, it has no problem with Good Friday being Good Friday, not Good Wednesday.