Posted on 05/24/2012 8:35:52 PM PDT by caldera599
The Sabbath is on a Saturday by definition.
Steps were taken (breaking legs, stabbing Christ with a spear to ensure they didn’t have to bother breaking His) to get the crucifixions over with so they could remove & bury the bodies before Sabbath. While it may not say which day per se, that they were in “hurry up and get this over with” mode by mid-afternoon points to being the day before Sabbath - to wit Friday.
(It’s 3:18AM, so my brain is muddled. Correct me if I’m wrong.)
yup.
Reading for you, CB, Pat
“If the last possibility is true, this would mean that the report of an earthquake in the Gospel of Matthew is a type of allegory,” they write.
If the Gospel says it happened, it happened.
The teaching of the bible is clear (and remarkable), unlike the junk that has been passed down through the years as church "history." The mis-understanding has to do with the fact that the "high holy" sabbath at the end of passover (John 19:31) had nothing to due with "saturday." Every Jew would know that......but then who cares what the Jews think........right Ignacius?...../sarc
What is surprising is that MSNBC is admitting that there was a Jesus and that he was crucified.
I have no idea what you are referencing.
I don't think "Ignacius" had much to say on the issue.
The Scripture says the women went to anoint the body on the morning of the "first day of the week". They wouldn't have waited (or been able to wait) 4 whole days to do that. (cf Lazarus ... "he has been in the tomb 3 days, surely there will be a stench") The reason they waited was because the day before, and only the day before, was a Sabbath. That means that there was only that one day intervening between Jesus' death and Sunday morning. If there had been another non-Sabbath day in between, they would have anointed him then.
The Julian calendar of 45 BC did not have ordinal days of the week. A “week” is strictly a Jewish concept. The Greeks didn’t even have a word for it, and thus transliterated Sabbath straight from the Hebrew to translate the bible into Greek. To this day, the Greek word is literally merely, “sevens” (Hebtomada), and in Latin, “seven days” (Septomana)
The concept of “week” entered Roman culture only with the spread of Judaism and Christianity. And yes, even while they still used the Julian calendar, those Romans who counted days of the week counted “Yom Rishon” (the first day) as Dies Solis (Sunday).
Do you know what day Passover begins on?
It wasn’t “gas” that killed the firstborn, it was the Angel of Death. Besides, if it had been some low-concentration poisonous gas, it would have been more likely to kill the youngest children than the eldest.
I don’t think the Gospels ever specifically say it was on Friday, but it is an inference from the timing of events. Mainly, interpreting the Last Supper as a Passover feast, which would take place on Thursday after sundown, and noting that the body needed to be taken down and entombed in a hurry, because that kind of work could not be done on a Sabbath. So, if those two events are the “bookends”, then the trial, passion, and cruxifixion all need to fit between sunup on Friday and sundown on Friday.
I’m not trying to “debunk” the Bible, I’m just discussing the practical explanations for the story of Exodus.
There’s no need for “practical” explanations unless you doubt God. What’s the “practical” explanation for a man born from a virgin? A miracle is by definition not practical.
I put my trust in the Word of God, not geologists who do not know how to or take time to study the Word of God which gives us very specific details as to the day of the week Messiah died. According to Scripture, the Passover lamb had to be inspected “IN” the House of God (the Temple) for 4 days prior to being sacrificed and thus since Messiah became the final Passover lamb, according to Scripture, he had to be inspected in the House of his Father (the Temple) for 4 days by the priests prior to his offering himself up for our sins. (Ex 12:3-6, Mt 21-26, Mk 11-14, Lk 19-22)
When one studies the ENTIRE Word of God as a whole, not just the final 1/3 of the book in isolationist fashion, that is to pick out a verse and make it mean what one wants it to mean, many hidden treasures pop out that normally wouldn't unless one has an understanding of the prophesy of the Savior given through Moses. Yes, Moses also believed in the Savior. He knew the true promised land is the land under the rule & reign of Messiah as King.(Heb 11:24-26)
Moses reveals it all, One Shepard, One House, One Word of God from the beginning throughout all eternity. The Messiah is all over the books of Genesis through Deuteronomy. Waiting there for all who have it in their hearts to humble themselves, pray, seek God's face and turn back to His Way (2 Chron 7:14; Ps 119)
Mat 10:5 These twelve Jesus sent out and commanded them, saying: “Do not go into the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter a city of the Samaritans. 6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Mat 15:24 But He answered and said, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
Joh 11:49 And one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all, 50 nor do you consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should perish.”
Joh 11:51 Now this he did not say on his own authority; but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation (Judea), 52 and not for that nation only, but also that He would gather together in one the children of God who were scattered abroad. 53 Then, from that day on, they plotted to put Him to death.
Joh 11:54 Therefore Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim (Gen 48:19, Rm 11:25), and there remained with His disciples.
Jas 1:1 James, a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad: Greetings.
Joh 7:35 Then the Jews said among themselves, “Where does He intend to go that we shall not find Him? Does He intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?
1Pe 1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the pilgrims of the Dispersion
Time: Our Creators Calendar
http://vimeo.com/36969830
The Error of Dispensationalism
http://vimeo.com/45351118
caldera599, dangus — the newfangled Sabatorians with their modern re-interpretations won’t believe God’s word or anything else but what their cult leaders tell them...
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