Jesus rose on the third day, which is the First Day of the Week

[Petro]

According to the following verse, Sunday, the first day of the week was the third day since the death and burial of Jesus.

Here Jesus is walking with the two on road to Emmaus, the same day Jesus arose from the grave. (Lk 24:1-21)

Lk 24
19  And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:
20  And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.
21  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.

Let's do some arithmatic, using the Biblical calculation used by the Jews of their day, firstly;

Gen 1
1  In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2  And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3  And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4  And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5  And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
8  And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
13  And the evening and the morning were the third day.
19  And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

We get a different  impression today than from the Biblical teaching ,that a day preceded by an evening is counted as the same day.

By our present day measurement of a day, we have the daylight hours followed the night hours and this is very confusing when trying to determine whether Jesus was in the belly of the earth three days and three nights.

The Jews counted a portion of any, evening hours or day hours as a whole day.

According to the scriptures Jesus ate the passover supper with His disciples (Mat 26:18) in the evening (Mat 26:20) upon finishing the supper and drinking from the fruit of the cup, departed to the Mt of Olives to a place called Gethsemane, where Judas betrayed Him with a kiss and delivered him up, the same day he was crucified, this leaves no doubt it had to be the sixth day.

Three days later, He arose from the grave early on the first day of the week before the rising of the sun. (Mk 16:2-90  

Blessings,

Petro

[Petro]

Well I am happy to seem everyone agrees with the scriptures.

And as I had said;

"According to the scriptures Jesus ate the passover supper with His disciples (Mat 26:18) in the evening (Mat 26:20) upon finishing the supper and drinking from the fruit of the cup, departed to the Mt of Olives to a place called Gethsemane, where Judas betrayed Him with a kiss and delivered him up, the same day he was crucified, this leaves no doubt it had to be the sixth day.

I was wondering if anybody had an insight into, Jhn 18

26  One of the servants of the high priest, being his kinsman whose ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see thee in the garden with him?
27  Peter then denied again: and immediately the cock crew.
28  Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.


Note that these chief rulers, did not want to defile themselves, this is the reason why they did not enter into the judgment hall, but that they might eat the passover

The passover is to be kept the evening of the14th day of the first month, this was established by the Lord and given to Moses to give to the people as an ordinance (Ex 12:5-6,14) to be kept forever.

Why where this men observing passover on the 15th day of the month??

It is plain from the passage, it was already early morning, and passover was ending, (the cock had crowed), hardly any time to kill a lamb and eat the whole passover lamb, with ones family.

Any comments would be appreaciated..........


Blessings,

Petro

[Mr. 5020]

Good post Petro.  I'll have to look into that.