Um, everybody knows the Catholic Church picked the day for Easter, Christmas, All Hallow’s Eve, etc. They made their choices based on history, tradition, and the festivals converts were used to celebrating. The Sabbath was the Jewish Sabbath and Christ was rushed into burial before the sun went down and the Sabbath began. Don’t forget the young Catholic Church was staffed by many of Christ’s actual disciples and their children.
Oh, and the Catholic Church selected everything contained in the Bible too. So, if you’ve got a problem with their holidays, you might...
Obj:
“The Sabbath was the Jewish Sabbath and Christ was rushed into burial before the sun went down and the Sabbath began.”
Ans:
All ‘sabbaths’ were ‘Jewish’ not because they were Jewish but because they were Scriptural. It’s an irrelevant to our subject now, fact.
In the context of the ‘sabbath’ referred to in Jn19:31 the ‘Jewish sabbath’ was not “the Seventh Day Sabbath of the LORD your God”, but “the sabbath” referred to in PASSOVER-CONTEXT in Lv23:11,15 also called “That Day” in Ex 12-15 and “great day” etc. in other places: STRICTLY, “The Feast” of passover; STRICTLY: the fifteenth day of the First Month. IT WAS THIS ‘sabbath’ which in Mk15:42 Mt27:57 Jn19:31,38 Lk23:50 BEGAN. IT WAS THIS ‘sabbath’ which in Lk23:54 Jn19:42 BEGAN TO END. In between lay “That Day of great day sabbath’s” passover-significance in its God-given and therefore eschatologically imperative wholeness, the second of the “three days” of “three days and three nights” each.
There simply EXISTS NOTHING of or like “rushed into burial before the sun went down and the Sabbath [Seventh Day] began.”