If Jesus was crucified on a Wednesday because the Passover Sabbath was on Thursday, why did the disciples wait until Sunday to visit his tomb?
Each successive day was a Sabbath day, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Also, at Christ’s death, all the apostles scattered, remember?
It was only in the dark, before sunrise, after the 3rd full day, that they went to the tomb.
The women went there to anoint his body with burial spices. What was stopping them from going on Friday to perform this rather urgent task?
Friday was a Sabbath day, there would have been no menial labor done, no work, if someone was buying and selling on the Sabbath, they would have been breaking Sabbath law.
Thursday was Passover starting at 6pm
Friday was unleavened Bread, starting at 6pm
Saturday was the regular Sabbath, starting at 6pm
I have never seen a suggestion, ever, until now, that there were three consecutive Sabbaths. I have a feeling that the rationalizations for a Wednesday crucifixion are getting progressively wackier, as all the more traditional ones fall to sounder exegesis and understanding.
In any case, your timeline falls apart:
Thursday was Passover starting at 6pm
So Jesus was buried on Wednesday evening because the next day was a Sabbath. However, you say the Passover didn't start until Thursday evening. So what Sabbath started on Wednesday night and continued through Thursday day?
It wasn't the Passover day itself, by your argument. It wasn't the first day of the feast of unleavened bread; that came after Passover, not before. And it wasn't the weekly Sabbath, for obvious reasons.
So what was it? Apart from the Feast of Shoehorning Extra Sabbaths, which commemorates the propping-up of implausible crucifixion theories?
And how do you get around the plain fact that all four gospels call the day of crucifixion Paraskeue, the day of preparation, which is the usual word for the sixth day of the week and is never used with respect to the day before any non-sixth-day Sabbath?
excellent post