Featured The crucifixion-resurrection timeline: A third view

No, Saturday was the second day since, Luke 24:21.
That Thursday was not the Preparation day, that Preparation day was following evening, Mark 15:42.

 

Before Passover began, He was dead in the afternoon

 

The Passover Sabbath begins at sundown, He was killed in the afternoon the ninth hour of the day or three o clock
Mat 27:46

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

The had to hurry to get him buried

Mar 15:42

And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,
Mar 15:43

Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.

 

The 15th falls on a Sabbath if you go with Sir Isaac Newton's 33 A.D.. In 30 A.D. it would be (15th) on a Thursday.

 

The Preparation day before the weekly Sabbath begins when the evening had come.

 

No. Jesus and His disciples ate the Passover that evening before, Mark 14:17-18.

 

Why would they know He was to be Crucified? He died the afternoon/evening before Passover began at sunset, The women looked upon Him on the cross. Joseph had to beg the body to be buried before Passover began, all this was less than three hours, When could the women buy spices before Passover.? They bought on Fri. after Passover before the weekly Sabbath began. but could only apply the spices , after the weekly sabbath was over, .It was over at sunset but they could not go in the dark but waited until Sunday morning.. Spices could not be sold on a Sabbath and nobody would be open in the dark on Sunday morning

 

That was before Passover, read the verses, That was Day of Preparation. He was dead before Passover

 

You said he died on Fri. We know it was late afternoon. They hurried to get Him in the tomb before sunset. The arrangements were made hurriedly. Did they buy the spices before the Crucifixion expecting Him to die?, Did they ask customer service to stay over at Spice and More on the Passover after dark? Did the go to the all-night spice store Saturday night after 12:00?


He was long dead Fri.

You don't believe because you embrace a train of thought and defend it not because it is right but it is yours., You claim error as truth, not because of any merit but because you think you discovered it.

 

That view is correct as I believe. Except that the women went to the tomb, while it was still dark, or perhaps , as soon as it was dark.

• John 20:1 The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.

Those who believe in a Friday crucifiction, quoting "in three days" always omit the alternative which Jesus said,

• Mark 8:31 And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

The women came to the tomb at the end of the sabbath as the first day was beginning.

• Matthew 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 sepulchre.

The chiefs and Pharisees remembered that Jesus said that.

• Matthew 27:62 Now the next day, 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.

 

Yes, Jesus was gone when they arrived. He had completed the three days and nights after sunset Sat night and arose during the night

 

That is very easy to answer if you know scripture

• Mark 16:1 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.

• Luke 23:56 And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.

There were two sabbaths that week. Jesus was crucified on Wednesday and put in the tomb at twilight. Thursday was the Sabbath (high day) and the women rested on that day. They bought the spices and prepared them on the Friday and rested on the weekly sabbath, at the end of which the ressurection took place.

 

Calminian, I don't know where you are but David Kent is in England. Answers might be slow at night