>> 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.
See?
So...with that in mind, let me re-post the sequence...
Jesus was buried before sundown on Thursday...that's the Jewish Thursday day. He rose before sunrise...what we call Sunday morning, but a Jew would call Saturday night.
so again...
Thursday afternoon 1st day
Thursday after sunset 1st night (that's a Jewish Friday)
Friday sunrise 2nd day
Friday after sunset 2nd night(that's a Jewish Saturday)
Saturday after sunrise 3rd day
Saturday after sunset 3rd night.(that's a Jewish Sunday)
Clearly in Jewish reckoning of days/nights, Christ was in the earth three days and three nights. In the Bible, and part or whole of a day or night is reckoned as whole day or night. SO even though He was in the tomb on Thursday day for a brief time, it is still considered a “day”.
There is no need to allegorize the clear meaning of Christ, when viewed form the Jewish perspective. It is NOT four days.
And with a Friday afternoon crucifixion, there is ABSOLUTLEY no way to reconcile Christ's very clear prophecy of three days and three nights. Not with a Jewish reckoning of days and not with our current reckoning of days that start and end at midnight. It cannot be done.
peace