So it is your position that the empty tomb was discovered on a Saturday, rather than the generally accepted Sunday at daybreak? That would have to be your interpretation of Luke 24:1, where the same set of words is used as is found in the passage in Acts.
This was a meal, a potluck if you will, that they were eating together.
The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? 1Cor 10:16
And I find your interpretation of the meaning of the 'first of the week' to be a bit strained.
Are you a follower of William Miller?
The term used in scripture is "First of the Sabbaths". The Greek word is Sabbaton and is only used in scripture to denote these special seven Sabbaths between Passover and Pentecost. [Leviticus 23:15-16]
The Church....for 2000 years.....and the translators have attempted to show a Sunday morning resurrection but it won't fly when you read the Greek. All the Gospels will bear this out. The women are visiting an empty tomb on "The First of the Sabbaths". To a first century Jew there is no doubt in their mind that Matthew and the others are speaking of the first Saturday after Passover. The translators, in vain..... attempt to show this a "First Day of the Week. They are wrong.
Diego has throughly hashed this out from a scriptural standpoint a number of times in this forum. Perhaps he still has a link to one of his posts?
The Modern King James version:
Joh 20:1 The first of the sabbaths Mary Magdalene came early to the tomb, darkness still being on it, and she saw the stone taken away from the tomb.
It was STILL dark when the tomb was discovered. This means it was either before sunrise or after sunset.
This was a meal, a potluck if you will, that they were eating together. The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? 1Cor 10:16 And I find your interpretation of the meaning of the 'first of the week' to be a bit strained. Are you a follower of William Miller?
The point of telling of this incident in Acts was to document a miraculous healing by Paul.
Act 20:7 And on the first of the sabbaths, the disciples having been assembled to break bread, being about to depart on the morrow, Paul reasoned to them. And he continued his speech until midnight.
They were assembled together to "break bread".
Paul spoke until midnight.
Act 20:8 And there were many lights in the upper room where they were assembled.
It was dark, just after midnight.
Act 20:9 And there was a young man named Eutychus sitting on the window sill, sinking into a deep sleep; and as Paul kept on talking, he was overcome by sleep and fell down from the third floor and was picked up dead.
Eutychus fell asleep and fell out of the window and died.
The point was to document a healing.
However, those who follow the TRADITION of changing the sabbath can't help but try and use this as a scriptural precedent.
Are you a follower of William Miller?
I don't know who that is. I'm a follower of Jesus Christ.