#1 It was on a Friday.
#2 If you knew what a high Sabbath was, you wouldn't be in error like you are.
#3 It is not a false teaching, it is correct teaching.
#4 It is not just a Catholic teaching. I am not Catholic and I know when the crucifixion was.
I believe Christ crucified on Thursday is more likely than Wednesday, but I also believe that the Friday teaching is no false teaching.
2 Tim 2:14 comes to mind as I believe the devil likes us to argue over this.
John 2:19 Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
Yeshua makes two similar statements in Matthew 12 & 16
Matthew 12:8 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.”
39 But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Matthew 13:1 On the same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the sea. 2 And great multitudes were gathered together to Him, so that He got into a boat and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.
Matthew 16:1 Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing Him asked that He would show them a sign from heaven. 2 He answered and said to them, “When it is evening you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red’; 3 and in the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! You know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times. 4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” And He left them and departed.
Notice in Matthew 16 there’s no mention of ‘three days and nights’, that’s because there are three days and three nights between these two statements!
So will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
The ‘heart’ of the earth is the region of Galilee not the grave.
So what’s the ‘sign of the prophet Yonah? Glad you asked...
2 Kings 14:25 25 He was the one who restored the boundaries of Israel from Lebo Hamath to the Dead Sea, in accordance with the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, spoken through his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath Hepher.
The restored borders of Israel, 1967
So who are the wicked and adulterous? Aren't they the same group? Never mind...
Now onto Why Was Christ Crucified Between Two Thieves?