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As to Christ rising from the dead on a Saturday, the Scriptures and ancient writings point to Sunday as the day of the Resurrection, using the Roman calendar method, such as John the Evangelist used - when time is computed from midnight to midnight. The Jewish method is computed from sunset to sunset. So perhaps that is where the OT Scriptures and the NT Scriptures define the day of the week differently.
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116 posted on 02/07/2006 10:35:07 AM MST by jo kus

Please reread the following as posted at #114

Y'shua rose from the dead on the G-d defined feast of "First Fruits"
(Bikkurim) which is to be celebrated on the day after the Shabbat following Pesach.

The day after the seventh day (Shabbat: the day YHvH made holy in Genesis 2:3)
is the first day of the week and it just happens to be the day called Sunday.

b'shem Y'shua

The day after the seventh day (Shabbat: the day YHvH made holy in Genesis 2:3) is the first day of the week and it just happens to be the day called Sunday.

That's interesting, but apparently, the first Christians didn't feel compelled to hold to some Jewish traditions on what was the "Lord's Day". It was Sunday... I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet. Rev 1:10

If, therefore, those who were brought up in the ancient order of things have come to the possession of a new hope, no longer observing the Sabbath, but living in the observance of the Lord's Day, on which also our life has sprung up again by Him and by His death Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians, 9 (c. 107 AD)

The day of the preparation, then, comprises the passion; the Sabbath embraces the burial; the Lord's Day contains the resurrection. Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians, 9 (c. 107 AD)

This [custom], of not bending the knee upon Sunday, is a symbol of the resurrection, through which we have been set free, by the grace of Christ, from sins, and from death, which has been put to death under Him. Now this custom took its rise from apostolic times, as the blessed Irenaeus, the martyr and bishop of Lyons, declares in his treatise On Easter, in which he makes mention of Pentecost also; upon which [feast] we do not bend the knee, because it is of equal significance with the Lord's day, for the reason already alleged concerning it. Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenaes, VII (c. 175 AD)

This historical evidence clearly states that the Church moved to worshiping God on Sunday, the Lord's Day, rather than Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath. This is way before Constantine!

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