Okay...got a question for you.
How many days and nights does the Word of God state that Jesus would be in the heart of the earth?
Matt 12:40
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly ; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
three days and three nights???? does that equal 72 hours? yes
you will never come up with three days and three nights, or 72 hours from good friday to sunday sunrise service no matter how you do your math.
And you must remember that He was taken off the stake before the sabbath began at sun down and laid in the grave...this begins the clock...and their days begin at sun down not at mid night.
the math...friday to saturday is one day, saturday to sunday is two days....arent you all missing a day???
Even though the large majority of christians celebrate a pagan holiday named after the babylonian bare breasted fertility goddess named Easter doesn’t make it a holy day like Passover.
You can not prove that the first century church celebrated Easter, because they didn’t. They knew it was an abomination to worship other gods and say they were doing it in the name of the one true God.
You should really learn about the pagan roots of Easter, but don’t forget to honor God in the way that He commanded.
Lev 23:4-5
4 These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD’s passover .
God called the Passover HIS passover (many times)...not a jewish passover or feast.
Never are we commanded to celebrate easter in the word of God...but we are commanded to honor Passover.
You’d have a point if the Jews were concerned with 72 hours elapsing.
They weren’t, it wasn’t a technological society like the modern West, and any portion of a day was considered a day.
It helps if you know the culture that you are dealing with, and in this instance it is an ancient agrarian one with a different idea about time than what we use.