“and will hand Him over to the Gentiles to mock and scourge and crucify Him, and on the third day He will be raised up.” (Matthew 20:19)
He was.
1Co 15:4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures:
Luk 24:46 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
He was raised on the third day:
1. Entombed at sunset, Wednesday. To daybreak Thursday = 0 days, 1 night.
2. Thursday sunrise to sunset = 1 day, 1 night.
3. Thursday sunset to Friday sunrise = 1 day, 2 nights.
4. Friday sunrise to Friday sunset = 2 days, 2 nights.
5. Friday sunset to Saturday sunrise = 2 days, 3 nights.
6. Saturday sunrise to sunset - Resurrection = 3 days, 3 nights in the tomb.
He rose on the day number three, the third day.
The only sign Our Saviour gave to prove his Messiah-ship was [Matthew 12:39-40] 39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: 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. Now there is absolutely nothing under the sun which would lead someone to believe that He was not speaking here of 72 hours.
[John 11:9-10] 9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. 10 But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him. Here Our Lord is confirming a 24 hour time period.....twelve hours of light and twelve hours of darkness.
[Genesis 1:4] And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. and if you read [Genesis 1:4-13] you will find that there are three periods of darkness and three periods of light....the third day.
We have established two scriptural witnesses in Matthew and in Jonah setting the time of entombment to be 72 hours [Matthew 12:40]. Let's look again at four others.
[Matthew 27:63] Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. There is no way this can be construed to mean anything less than 72 hours.
[Mark 8:31] And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. There is no way this can be construed as anything less than 72 hours.
[Mark 9:31] For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day. There is no way this can be construed to mean anything more than 72 hours or less than 48.
[John 2:19] Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. And again, this can mean nothing more than 72 hours nor less than 48.
I hate to be so redundant.....but I have now given you 6 scriptural references showing the length of entombment to be 72 hours. There is no way possible for Our Lord to have been entombed on a Friday afternoon and resurrected on a Sunday morning. It is false doctrine....and you, my good FRiend should divorce yourself from any organization that teaches this! A Wednesday Sunset entombment (Nisan 14) and a Sabbath day Sunset resurrection (Nisan 17) is 72 hours! And it follows scripture...unlike your tradition!