If Jesus was crucified on a Wednesday because the Passover Sabbath was on Thursday, why did the disciples wait until Sunday to visit his tomb? The women went there to anoint his body with burial spices. What was stopping them from going on Friday to perform this rather urgent task?
Matt 27:62 Now the next day [Passover the high Sabbeth], that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,
63 Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
64 Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.
65 Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can.
66 So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
If Jesus was crucified on a Wednesday because the Passover Sabbath was on Thursday, why did the disciples wait until Sunday to visit his tomb?
Each successive day was a Sabbath day, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Also, at Christ’s death, all the apostles scattered, remember?
It was only in the dark, before sunrise, after the 3rd full day, that they went to the tomb.
The women went there to anoint his body with burial spices. What was stopping them from going on Friday to perform this rather urgent task?
Friday was a Sabbath day, there would have been no menial labor done, no work, if someone was buying and selling on the Sabbath, they would have been breaking Sabbath law.
Thursday was Passover starting at 6pm
Friday was unleavened Bread, starting at 6pm
Saturday was the regular Sabbath, starting at 6pm
Because Wednesday allows for people who see the sign of Jonah as three days and three nights ‘in the tomb’..
Problem with that is what happens when Passover falls on a ‘Monday’ like it did last year..
Kind of messes up three days and three nights or raised the third day.
There is a calendar in scripture. And a template is given to Ezekiel 46
The 14th day of every month is the sixth work day of the week. (Passover in the 1st month)
The 15th day of the months would be the weekly Sabbath (feast of unleavened bread - an annual but also a weekly sabbath, hence a ‘high’ Sabbath )
The 16th day of the months would be the 1st work day of the week after the Sabbath( feast of First Fruits)
Passover ‘floats’ in the world’s calendar because it isn’t dependent on the sun only.
The Messiah laid His life down on the 14thday. It wasn’t ‘evening’ but we know there was a supernatural darkness (or some sort of astronomical event) to make it meet the prophecy.
He laid in the tomb, resting even in death, on the High Sabbath (15th day)
He was raised on the 16th day, the first day of the week..
That pattern is not Friday, Saturday Sunday every year.
That pattern fits Torah and the prophet Ezekiel’s template He was given.. and the new testament doesn’t conflict with that..
It does help to ignore religion when they start ‘days’ in the evening or at midnight when Genesis says Day began with ‘Light’..
The 14th, 15th, and 16th template works on any day the 14th may start with.
Trying to tell the bible story with roman days is a recipe for confusion.
He may had been crucified on a ‘Wednesday’ but if we can trust the template in scripture, it would mean ‘Friday’ was resurrection day..
And it would have made ‘Thursday’ the sabbath.
That messes up Judaism and Christendom’s stories and worship practices.. and exposes Rome’s calendars of vessels for changing times(Daniel 7:25)
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Yeshua arose at a short time before sundown, at the end of the weekly Sabbath, exactly three days and nights after he was put into the tomb. That was Saturday by the Roman calendar, not sunday. The injection of “sunday” was due to gross misunderstanding by the English translatore; The Greek says “the first day of the week,” not sunday. Saturday evening is the first day of the week by the Biblical calendar.
Joseph and Nicodemus went to the tomb on “friday” and did the rest of the embalming that they were unable to do because Passover was at hand as they were placing him in the tomb.
The disciples knew that Yeshua was to remain in the tomb for three full days and nights, so why would they look for him earlier? They didn’t.
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