[Dog Gone]

Where do you get the 6 pm reference? I wasn't aware that the Jews had clocks during this era.

[foolish-one]

Sunset.

[Library Lady]

Cute.

[JohnnyM]

"Where do you get the 6 pm reference?"

This was actually how they did days back in that time. If you like at Genesis and the story of creation you will see that God denotes it that way as well. For each day He said there was evening, there was morning the nth day. So evening came first, then morning. The Jews didn't say 6pm was the start of the next day, 6pm is using our standard of time. You will note in the gospels that things happened on the third hour of the day or the 6th hour or the third watch. This is in reference to 6am, our time. So the 3rd hour of the day was 9am. Our 12am is equivalient to their 6am. So their morning started at 6am according to our clock and the their evening started at 6pm. So Saturday at 6pm is actually Sunday according to Jewish and Biblical custom.

JM