“For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”
And a Thursday Crucifixion and burial before sunset with an early Sunday AM resurrection is three days and three nights, by reckoning in the Jewish timing of days, which went from sunset to sunset.
Thursday afternoon 1st day
Thursday after sunset 1st night
Friday sunrise 2nd day
Friday after sunset 2nd night
Saturday after sunrise 3rd day
Saturday after sunset 3rd night.
Risen Sunday morning before dawn.
3 days/ 3 nights.
Matt 28:1 states that Mary went to the tomb at dawn but He was already risen...before dawn.p>
3days/3nights, as He prophesied.
So I guess we agree?
BTW, not being Catholic, I'm not very familiar with the Catholic liturgy, but the comment is interesting.
>> 3days/3nights, as He prophesied. So I guess we agree? <<
Well, not really, because that would make Sunday morning the fourth day. By the way you count, he’d’ve had to be risen by Saturday afternoon. I’m supposing ... and I didn’t put this in the main article because I’m on less certain ground ... that the three nights were Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and the three days were Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
One dubious explanation is that Christ wasn’t fully material by Sunday morning, hence, he told Mary not to cling to him (in contrast to Thomas, whom he would instruct to probe his wounds).
What seems more likely to me is that the sun was up, it counted as a day.