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"... today is the third day
SINCE..."
Can you count like the two villagers?
That Sunday morning, two men left Jerusalem
and were on their way back to their home in Emmaus. They were speaking of the
things that had happened few days before, i.e. the events surrounding the
judgment and crucifixion of Christ.
They said, "But we trusted that it had
been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the
THIRD DAY SINCE these things were done."
Luke 24:21
By Sunday, it was *the THIRD day SINCE* those
things had happened.
Let's grant that the two men can at least
count up to 3 as well as counting them backward. Also those words were uttered
in the presence of the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ; they were received and
not corrected; thus it is reasonable to assume them to be accurate.
Questions
- On which day did those things happen?
- On which night was Jesus arrested?
- The early morning of which day did the
hastily convened kangaroo court take place?
- Which day was Christ crucified?
Some questions to ask at this time of year
when bunnies start laying colourful eggs in the name of remembering Christ.
This village boy can understand their words.
To them, those things happened on Thursday. Jesus was arrested on Wednesday
night.
Some insist that the phrase "three days
and three nights" must be exactly 72hrs and no less. Go figure. Is that how words
of common daily usage are to be understood? Do 2plus 12hr-day and 3 12hr-night constitute the phrase 3days and 3 nights? Let's say, if Jesus had wanted to say 68 hours, how should he have expressed himself if not the common usage of "three days and three nights?
ALSO.... the first 12-hr DAY of the Jewish
week is Sunday, 6am-6pm. Don't jump, let me finish! Saturday 6pm - Sunday 6am is
the FIRST 12-hr NIGHT of the Jewish week.
Gen 1:5,8,13,19,23,31
"...And the evening and the morning were
the first/second/third/fourth/fifth/sixth day."
A Jewish day consisted of 12hr evening
(night) and 12hr morning (day).
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"The most difficult subjects can be
explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them
already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent
man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt,
what is laid before him."
- Leo
Tolstoy –
"But if any man be ignorant, let him be
ignorant." - Apostle Paul, a servant of Christ.
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Rod Wilson
🙂 Amen.
There were two sabbaths in that week. A high
or special sabbath, and the weekly sabbath.
John 19:31 (KJV) - "The Jews therefore,
because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the
cross on the sabbath day, (for 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐛𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐝𝐚𝐲,) besought Pilate that their legs might be
broken, and that they might be taken away."
However, there was a normal working day in
between the two sabbaths. The women, who followed Jesus, rested the high
Sabbath day of the Passover, before buying and preparing their spices:
Mark 16:1 (KJV) - "And when the sabbath
was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought
sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him."
They bought and prepared their spices on the
regular workday between the two Sabbaths days.
Luke 23:55-56 (KJV) - "And the women
also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the
sepulchre, and how his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices
and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment."
And then the rested, during the weekly
Sabbath day, after buying and preparing their spices the previous workday.
Jesus rose from the dead, as the weekly
Sabbath ended – three days and three nights after burial – as prophesied:
Matthew 12:39-40 (KJV) - "But he
answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a
sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet
Jonas: For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so
shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the
earth."
Wednesday: Jesus buried before 6pm.
Thursday: High sabbath.
Friday: Women bought and prepared spices.
Saturday: Weekly sabbath day, and women
rested. After 6pm Jesus rose.
Sunday: Early in the morning, women find tomb
empty.
Amen.
[Friday: Women bought and prepared spices: you invented this EXTRA day out of thin air just to accommodate the women buying the sweet spices!!! sing]
Sing F Lau
Rod Wilson: Such a scheme would require
"to day is the FOURTH day since these things were done" by Sunday late afternoon.
Either the two men from Emmaus were wrong or
you are wrong; both can't be correct. I think this is a reasonable conclusion.
Wed 6pm - Thu 6pm : the PASSOVER DAY
- Jesus ate the passover meal with the disciples... later in the night he was arrested. Later on Thu afternoon Jesus was crucified,
- PART of 1st 12hr day
Thu 6pm - Fri 6pm : the High Sabbath Day.
- 1st 12hr night and 2nd 12hr day
Fri 6pm - Sat 6pm : the weekly sabbath day
- 2nd 12hr night and 3rd 12hr day
Sat 6pm - Sun 6pm : the first 24hr day of the week
Sat 6pm - Sun 6am : the first 12-hr night of the week
- 3rd 12hr day and 3rd 12hr night. 2+ 12hr days and 3 12hr nights have PASSED.
Sun 6am - Sun 6pm : the first 12-hr day of the week.
Jesus rose early on Sunday morning, after the THIRD night (Sat 6pm - Sun 6am) ended. Jesus repeatedly said, It is "three days and three nights."
Your scheme is "three nights and three days!
On Thursday evening (still part of the Passover day), after the women returned from the burial scene, they PREPARED spices and ointments. The next day was the high sabbath. This was followed by the weekly sabbath.
Luke 23:55-56 (KJV) - "And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. And they returned, and PREPARED spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment."
After the weekly sabbath ended on Saturday 6pm, the beginning of the first 12-hr night of the first 24-hr day of the week, the women BOUGHT sweet spices.
Mark 16:1 (KJV) - "And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had BOUGHT sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him."
"HAD BOUGHT" - the past perfect tense indicates the earlier of the two past events that are connected: the act of buying the sweet spices is EARLIER than the act of coming to the tomb to anoint Jesus.
Too many cannot distinguish "prepared spices and ointments" and "bought sweet spices." They are two distinct events, and different occasions.
Rod Wilson
🙂 Thank you, brother Sing.
Clearly some are wrong. Were the women wrong
to be purchasing and preparing herbs on a sabbath day, or, as you say, the two
men were wrong.
Your Post also points out, that Jesus did not
correct the two men. However, if Jesus prophesied "three days and three
nights", I would be inclined to believe Him.
The important matter is, not so much the day
of His death, but His resurrection from the dead. Jesus answered the two men:
Luke 24:25-27 (KJV) - "Then he said unto
them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐲? And beginning at Moses and all the
prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning
himself."
Amen.
Sing F Lau
Rod Wilson, Luke 23:55-56 (KJV) 'And the women
also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the
sepulcher, and how his body was laid. And they returned [from the burial], and
prepared spices and ointments, and rested the sabbath day according to the
commandment.'
There was no buying.
Mark 16:1 (KJV) - "And when the sabbath
was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought
sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him."
There was buying here but ONLY when "... the sabbath was past... HAD
BOUGHT..."
The past perfect "HAD bought"
indicates that the buying took place after the passing of the sabbath, after Sat 6pm BUT before going to the tomb early in the morning.
The religious authorities requested the tomb
be guarded on the Saturday night (Sat 6pm -Sun 6am.) They understood from Jesus'
words of "three days and three nights" that He would rise AFTER the
third night, i.e. AFTER the night of Sat 6pm-Sun 6am. To place the guards AFTER Jesus had already risen would make the religious leaders to be idiots who cannot count also.
Your scheme says Jesus rose shortly after
Saturday at 6pm.
I have heard it before. A pastor-friend in
Greenville, SC, believes the same.
