If you study ancient the Hebrew language, and the culture, you will know that the numbers themselves were literally part of the alphabet, and had symbolic meanings-—AND, they used numbers loosely (Luke in Acts speaks of the enslavement in Egypt as “four hundred years” (Acts 7:6) in one place and as “about four hundred-fifty years” (Acts 13:20) in another place.
Was Luke contradicting himself? A computer would say so...but scripture is written in common every-day conversational language. In the same way we talk about America’s founders of “200 years ago” (even though Washington, Franklin, Samuel Adams, and many other founders were long dead in 1810) the biblical writers used numbers. Hence in Jesus’ case, any part of a day, is considered “a day. Friday afternoon...is Friday. Saturday-day, is Saturday. Sunday morning (from Sat. sunset through the night) is Sunday. Three days—by their common sense, common usuage definition—of 1st Century Hebrew culture.
Does a computer think so, since 72 full hours had not elapsed? Neither the writer nor the readers are computers though....nor are they precision-enslaved, industrial era, time-driven, 21st Century humans...
Now you’re talking like ordinary me, may understand. Thanks! ‘Misuse of the Hebrew language’ like someone has said! Meanwhile these folk don’t know the first principles of the Hebrew language but pose for authorities. Like yesterday I received a lecture in Armenian from someone who knew as much as I do about the language — which is zultz — but in two visits to the country developed into a professor in its intricacies.
Nevertheless: This, is unacceptable: “Hence in Jesus’ case, any part of a day, is considered “a day. Friday afternoon...is Friday. Saturday-day, is Saturday. Sunday morning (from Sat. sunset through the night) is Sunday. Three days—by their common sense, common usuage definition—of 1st Century Hebrew culture.”
It is in fact just as simple as you say. But the days were not those you mention. ‘Friday’, Saturday’ and ‘Sunday’ were not the days involved. ‘Thursday’, Friday’ and ‘Sabbath’ (’Saturday’) were the days involved. Sunday was the fourth day after the “three days” “according to the Scriptures”.