I don’t know where you get Wednesday from, but the Jews were in a hurry to get him buried because the next day was the sabbath.
The Sabbath was a ‘high day’(Jn.19:31), the Passover, not the Saturday.
Yeah, we know all that. And the Romans were just tourists.
wb45: “I dont know where you get Wednesday from, but the Jews were in a hurry to get him buried because the next day was the sabbath.”
Holy days and feast days were also considered sabbaths.
The Good Friday-Easter Sunday Question
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