Good Friday?

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Jesus Christ wasn't a Christian. He was a Jew born under the jurisdiction of the covenant that Yhvh's people agreed upon with God as per Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

● Gal 4:4 . . God sent His son; born of a woman, born under law

He had to eat a lamb at Passover because it's curse-worthy for Jews to deliberately miss the Passover seeing as how it's a covenanted feast.

● Deut 27:26 . . Cursed be he who will not uphold the terms of this Law and observe them.

And besides; human sacrifice is illegal under the terms and conditions of the covenant; i.e. it is illegal to substitute Jesus for the lamb that the covenant requires.

● Num 9:12 . .They shall offer it in strict accord with the law of the Passover sacrifice.

The law of the Passover sacrifice is located in the twelfth chapter of Exodus.

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● Matt 17:22-23 . . Jesus said unto them: The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men: and they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again.

● Mark 9:31 . . He taught his disciples, and said unto them: The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day.

● Luke 24:21-23 . .We trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, today is the third day since these things were done. Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulcher; and when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive.

● Luke 24:46 . . He said unto them: Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day

● Acts 10:40 . . God raised him up the third day

● 1Cor 15:4 . . he rose again the third day

It would take a pretty clever amalgam of sophistry and double speak to make those passages say that Christ rose from the dead on any other day but the third.

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The chronology by loDebar in post #48 won't work: too many nights.

Wed night
Thu night
Fri night
Sat night.

That's four nights. Jesus predicted only three in Matt 12:40.

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There's quite a bit of confusion going around related to the time of the women's arrival at the cemetery; for example Matt 28:1

"In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher."

The Greek word translated "came" is ambiguous. It can not only mean came, but also went, i.e. it can indicate travel as well as arrival and/or coming as well as going. Here's the same verse from another translation.

"After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb."

Seeing as how the preponderance of evidence indicates that Jesus' dead body revived on the third day rather than during the third night, i.e. when the sun was up rather than when the sun was not up, then it's safe to conclude, in this case at least, that "went" is the appropriate translation of the Greek word erchomai, i.e. the women left their homes at first light; by the time they met together and journeyed to the cemetery, the sun was fully up and Jesus was gone..

You people out there who persist in working with 24-hour days instead of distinct days and nights as per John 11:9-10 are never, ever, going to get this right.

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● Gen 1:4 . . God divided the light from the darkness.

● Gen 1:5 . . And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.

If we permit those two passages to define the properties of day and night, then it becomes readily apparent that creation's days had no darkness in them whatsoever other than what existed prior to the introduction of light.

● Gen 1:5 . . And there was evening, and there was morning-- the first day.

Note that passage does not say "and there was darkness and there was light-- the first day"

It isn't commonly known among Bible students that there is no specific, unambiguous Hebrew word in the Old Testament for the hours between sunrise and high noon, nor one for the hours between high noon and sundown; i.e. AM and PM.

The words morning and evening suffice for those particular hours. The hours between sundown and sunrise are always spoken of as night; never as day. When Bible students are unaware of that rather peculiar linguistic irregularity, they get thrown off by the terms evening and morning.

Now if you think about it; a strict chronology of the common understanding of evening and morning would indicate that God did all of His creating overnight; in the dark. That hardly seems appropriate to me; especially seeing as how God went to the trouble of filling the universe with light from the get-go.

As to days and nights on the Earth, the Bible says this:

● Gen 1:14-18 . . And God said: Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth. And it was so. God made two great lights-- the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness.

Now that right there tells me that days on Earth are when the sun is up, and nights on Earth are when the sun is down; which corroborates Jesus' statement at John 11:9-10

The tragedy of it is that little kids know the properties of day and night; while it seems there's a number of Christian adults who don't. Well; I may not know the difference between a hermeneutic and a barbiturate, but I certainly know the difference between day and night.

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