re: Interesting analysis - Jesus was crucified on a Wednesday and was resurrected on Saturday

Sorry, but you've posted this on the holy weekend when all the intellectuals and religious scholars are gorging themselves on crawfish and frozen king cake.

Try again after the reinstatement/resurrection has occurred.

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Go actually read the Bible yourself - look at what I wrote - read the verses

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I mean, I most certainly will because I'm genuinely curious to see if theres any real indication within the Gospels or Acts. But so far the only time frame I've seen for his arrival was 5 days before Passover in John. That gives no indication of what day of the week that would have been.

All I know is that every attempt I've ever seen to correlate the Jewish calendar to the Gregorian calendar between the years that Jesus's ministry is assumed to have occurred only produces one year (AD 34) with Passover landing on a Thursday.

The two most popular years (30 and 33) both presumably had Passover occur on a Friday.

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I mean, I most certainly will because I'm genuinely curious to see if theres any real indication within the Gospels or Acts. But so far the only time frame I've seen for his arrival was 5 days before Passover in John. That gives no indication of what day of the week that would have been.

All I know is that every attempt I've ever seen to correlate the Jewish calendar to the Gregorian calendar between the years that Jesus's ministry is assumed to have occurred only produces one year (AD 34) with Passover landing on a Thursday.

The two most popular years (30 and 33) both presumably had Passover occur on a Friday.

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That's because most of the research we read is from NT scholars and not Hebrew Bible scholars:

Sunday - Nisan 10
- Exodus 12:3 - The lamb is chosen and taken into the home for four days of inspection.
- The Triumphal Entry. Jesus enters Jerusalem, presenting Himself as the Lamb of God.

Monday - Nisan 11
- Exodus 12:5 - The lamb must be without blemish. Inspection continues.
- Cleansing of the Temple. Jesus' authority is questioned by religious leaders.

Tuesday - Nisan 12
- Lamb Inspection Continues
- Great Debates in the Temple. Jesus answers the Sadducees and Pharisees perfectly.

Wednesday- Nisan 13
- Nisan 13 was the day for removing all leaven (sin) from the house.
- Judas bargains to betray Jesus and leaves the disciples (the leaven is removed). Preparation for the Passover meal begins.
- This night is also the "Night of Watching" - Exodus 12:42 - where the people watched anxiously for the Salvation of the Lord - this was when Jesus prayed in Gethsemane and the Disciples failed to watch and fell asleep.

Thursday- Nisan 14: Passover.
- The lamb is slaughtered
- Jesus is Crucified and goes in the Tomb that night (NIGHT 1)

Friday - Nisan 15 - First day of Unleavened Bread
- Considered a High Sabbath according to Leviticus 23. The day the Nation prayed from "life to come from death in the ground" - planted seeds to sprout
- Jesus is in the Tomb (DAY 1, NIGHT 2)

Saturday- Nisan 16
- Shabbat - a weekly Festival - the Sabbath
- Jesus is in the Tomb (DAY 2, NIGHT 3)

Sunday - Nisan 17
- The Feast of First Fruits, always the following Sunday - the Jewish Festival celebrating life from the ground
- Jesus rises again as the First Fruits (DAY 3)

1 Corinthians 15:20 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.


Guess what happens 7 weeks after the passover in Exodus? God gave the Law on Sinai in "thunderings and lightnings" - in Hebrew literally "tongues of fire" followed by 3000 people being killed for worshiping the Golden Calf.

Guess what happens 7 weeks after the Crucifixion? Pentencost - another festival - where the Holy Spirit shows up in Tongues of fire and 3000 people are saved.

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Book of Enoch talks about giants mating with humans.

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Eh…. they were just referring to my ancient ancestors and our big pee-pee’s

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The Catholics decided Friday was the day he died, and they were wrong. Look up Council of Nicea and you’ll see where it all happened.

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No they didn’t.

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You also appear to be basing "3 days" on 24 hour days. Didn't the Jews of that time use "inclusive reckoning"? If so, then Friday would have had to be "Day 1" in order for Sunday to be "Day 3".

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This is another fundamental misunderstanding of the Jewish calendar and how it works based upon New Testament scholars who don’t understand what they’re looking at

Many scholars will say Jesus was in the tomb for 39 hours, but that is NOT what scripture says.

3 DAYS
3 NIGHTS

if it was Friday NIGHT, SAT DAY, SAT NIGHT, and SUN DAY

or (if we look at it from the Jewish inversion perspective) SAT DAY, SAT NIGHT, SUN DAY, SUN NIGHT

you still have the same issue - you are missing the third day AND night

Look, this isn’t complicated, the Bible lays out the rules explicitly. Most people never took the time to actually read and understand them, as evidenced by this thread.

And no, I am not basing this off of Palm Sunday specifically. I was just presenting a coherent chronological order.

I am starting from taking Jesus’ words seriously in Matthew 12:40. He said three days and three nights. I’m taking that at face value and not inserting my own odd calculations to confirm my bias.

Then I am looking at what the Bible ACTUALLY says about the “next day” being the Sabbath. It is blatantly clear, that day is not required to be Saturday because of the Festivals exception stated explicitly in Leviticus 23.

Suddenly, now, the possibility Jesus meant what he said can be true.

THEN, I go from Palm Sunday forward and there are only 4 days and nights mentioned in the Gospels before the crucifixion, not 5. Traditionally, this is explained away as the “silent day” of the passion week (I’ve even heard sermons based on this), which is stupid. Maybe, just maybe, there is no need to make this up.

THEN, going back and looking, again at the Bible itself, we can see there are other days they were commanded to observe - like lamb selection, which would have fallen on Palm Sunday…

And suddenly, everything clicks and fits together perfectly.

Dude, did you even read my post or are you just being argumentative for the sake of it?

I made it simple enough for a child to understand. The irony is you are arguing biblical interpretation against a position built solely on biblical interpretation with stances not built on biblical interpretation and then turning around and questioning my biblical interpretation without even bothering to read the Bible

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The Catholics decided Friday was the day he died, and they were wrong. Look up Council of Nicea and you’ll see where it all happened.

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This is not a fair representation. The Church of Rome had not broken with the early churches at this point, (see the Great Schism of 1054) so they are not entirely responsible for working to alienate the actual Passover date from the celebration of the Resurrection. It is more accurate to state that the early churches jointly did this through the first council.

But it is fair to say that the date which we use may not be accurate.

It is also fair to state that many dates of most liturgical calendars are pretty arbitrary.

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This is not a fair representation. The Church of Rome had not broken with the early churches at this point, (see the Great Schism of 1054) so they are not entirely responsible for working to alienate the actual Passover date from the celebration of the Resurrection. It is more accurate to state that the early churches jointly did this through the first council.

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I appreciate you presenting a legitimate response. I make these statements because I view all of those that participated in the council as part of the Catholic Church or the Roman church, which I view as one.

As the council sought a single date to celebrate Easter, this statement was recorded:

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Our Saviour left us only one festal day of our redemption, that is to say, of his holy passion, and he desired only one Catholic Church.

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That is why I view the whole council as Catholic and none of the artifacts that I've read have stated otherwise. Nevertheless, I will do more research into the Great Schism of 1054 to better understand your point.