If we bother to read the article, it states that the four Gospels all agree that the day of crucifixion was a Friday. I’m still trying to figure out where it states in the Scriptures the day is a Friday. Certainly, the commentary states so - it also says that on Wednesday of Passion Week nothing happened (NIV).
“If we bother to read the article, it states that the four Gospels all agree that the day of crucifixion was a Friday. I’m still trying to figure out where it states in the Scriptures the day is a Friday. Certainly, the commentary states so - it also says that on Wednesday of Passion Week nothing happened (NIV).”
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They didn’t look at exact hours like we do, people referred
to time in days. Jesus states it Himself.
Luke 13:32
And he said to them: Go and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and do cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I am consummated.
The Sabbath is on a Saturday by definition.
Steps were taken (breaking legs, stabbing Christ with a spear to ensure they didn’t have to bother breaking His) to get the crucifixions over with so they could remove & bury the bodies before Sabbath. While it may not say which day per se, that they were in “hurry up and get this over with” mode by mid-afternoon points to being the day before Sabbath - to wit Friday.
(It’s 3:18AM, so my brain is muddled. Correct me if I’m wrong.)
I don’t think the Gospels ever specifically say it was on Friday, but it is an inference from the timing of events. Mainly, interpreting the Last Supper as a Passover feast, which would take place on Thursday after sundown, and noting that the body needed to be taken down and entombed in a hurry, because that kind of work could not be done on a Sabbath. So, if those two events are the “bookends”, then the trial, passion, and cruxifixion all need to fit between sunup on Friday and sundown on Friday.