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Have you figured out what it's meaning is, yet?

TUESDAY
Nisan 13

Jesus and the twelve disciples come into Jerusalem from Bethany,
to partake of the Passover meal.

WEDNESDAY
Nisan 14

Preparation day for the annual, not weekly, Sabbath.
John and Peter were sent ahead of time to locate the place of the meal
and to make preparations for it (Mark 14.12-16).

Mark 14.17

Passover is observed on the 14th of Nisan every year (Leviticus 23.5).
Jesus and His disciples partook of the Passover
in the early evening of 14th. This was their Wednesday
(as if it were our Tuesday night).

(Jewish Days are calculated from sunset-to-sunset, not midnight-to-midnight.)

Jesus ate an early-evening Passover meal with His disciples.
After the meal, the walks with His disciples towards the Mt. of Olives.

Gethsemane is at the foot of the Mount of Olives, not far from the brook Kidron, and takes its name from a cave there that contained an oil press — thus, Gethsemane.

Jesus was betrayed by Judas at the olive grove in Gethsemane,
arrested and brought before the high priest, Caiaphas.

Trial ends at daybreak.

In the morning, Jesus was brought before Pilate the governor.

Jesus was crucified and dies around 3PM.

Luke 23.44 shows that Jesus died around the ninth hour or approximately 3PM. He would have been buried before sunset because of the approaching Sabbath, for that Sabbath day was a high-day (John 19.31).

Jesus' body was placed in the tomb at twilight.

Tomb is guarded and secured by sealing it with a stone.

THURSDAY
Nisan 15

This was the first annual Sabbath or high-day - the first day of Unleavened Bread.

John 19.31 mentions that the day following Jesus' crucifixion was a high day as opposed to the weekly seventh-day Sabbath.

The first day of each of the three feasts, Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, was "a holy convocation", a "sabbath" on which no servile work was to be done. See Lev. 23:7, 24, 35. Cp. Ex. 12:16.

"That Sabbath" and the "high day" of John 19:31, was the "holy convocation", the first day of the feast, which quite overshadowed the ordinary weekly sabbath.

It was called by the Jews Yom tov ( = Good day), and this is the greeting on that day throughout Jewry down to the present time.

This great sabbath, having been mistaken from the earliest times for the weekly sabbath, has led to all the confusion.

TWO Sabbaths – first an annual Holy Day and then the regular weekly Sabbath – are mentioned in the Gospel accounts. Compare Mark 16.1 with Luke 23.56

Annual Sabbath begins at sunset.
Sunset at this time of year in Jerusalem, is about 6:30 to 7:00 PM.

The 15th of Nisan is the first Holy Day, high-day, or annual Sabbath of the 7-day festival of Unleavened Bread. It begins at sunset on the 14th.

The annual Sabbath ends at sunset.

Mark 16:1 tells us, "And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary (the mother of James and Salome), bought sweet spices that they might come and anoint Him." (The Thursday, Nison 15 Annual Sabbath High Day).

Luke's account also describes how the women "prepared the spices and ointments" and then they "rested on the Sabbath day according to the commandment." (Luke 23.56) (The Saturday, Nison 17 Weekly Sabbath).

Thus, according to these two accounts,
they bought the spices and prepared them
after the Sabbath and yet before the Sabbath.

There had to be two Sabbaths involved here
with a day of preparation between them.

FRIDAY
Nisan 16

With the annual Sabbath now over,
the women bought and prepared spices for anointing Jesus' body.

On Friday, Nison 16, after The Annual Sabbath High Day, Thursday, Nison 15;
Mark 16:1 tells us, "And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary (the mother of James and Salome), bought sweet spices that they might come and anoint Him."

SATURDAY
Nisan 17

The weekly Sabbath.
The women rested on the weekly Sabbath.

Then, the weekly Sabbath, Nison 17, begins at sunset Friday night,
No work is to be done as commanded in the fourth commandment.

Before the Weekly Sabbath:
Luke's account also describes how the women "prepared the spices and ointments" and then they "rested on the Sabbath day according to the commandment." (Luke 23.56)

(Again, they rested Saturday, Nison 17 Weekly Sabbath).

Jesus rose around sunset, exactly three days and three nights (72 hours)
after burial, to fulfill the sign of Jonah and authenticate Jesus' messiahship.

Jesus' promise was fulfilled exactly as he said it would.
He said that, like the prophet Jonah,
He would be entombed three days and three nights
and that then He would be raised up from the dead the third day
after His crucifixion and death (Matthew 12.39-40; 17.23; 20.19).

There has been a difficulty as to the Lord's statement that "even as Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights, so shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights" (Matt. 12:40).

Since, while it is quite correct to speak according to Hebrew idiom of "three days" or "three years", while they are only parts of three days or three years, yet that idiom does not apply in a case like this, where "three nights" are mentioned in addition to "three days".

It will be noted that the Lord not only definitely states this,
but repeats the full phraseology, so that we may not mistake it.

The weekly Sabbath ends at sunset Saturday night.

SUNDAY
Nisan 18

Jesus' resurrection had already taken place
by the time Mary Magdalene arrived at dawn Sunday morning. (John 20.1-2)

The women brought the prepared spices early in the morning
while it was still dark.

In Matthew's account he states that "In the end of [or after] the Sabbath(s),
as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week"
they came to see the sepulchre (Mt. 28.1)

The original Greek word used here for Sabbath
is actually plural and should be translated "Sabbaths."

When they arrived they found that Jesus had already arisen.


We have therefore the following facts furnished for our sure guidance :

1. The "high day" of John 19:31 was the first day of the feast.

2. The "first day of the feast" was on the 15th day of Nisan.

3. The 15th day of Nisan, commenced at sunset
on what we would call the evening of our Wednesday, the 14th.

4. "Six days before the passover" (John 12:1)
takes us back to the 9th day of Nisan.

5. "After two days is the passover" (Matt. 26:2. Mark 14:1)
takes us to the 13th day of Nisan.

6. "The first day of the week", the day of the resurrection (Matt. 28:1, &c.),
was from our Saturday sunset to our Sunday sunset.

This fixes the days of the week,
just as the above fixes the days of the month, for:

7. Reckoning back from this, "three days and three nights" (Matt. 12:40),
we arrive at the day of the burial, which must have been before sunset,
on the 14th of Nisan; i.e. before our Wednesday sunset.

8. This makes the sixth day before the passover (the 9th day of Nisan)
to be our Thursday sunset to Friday sunset.

Therefore Wednesday, Nisan 14th (commencing on the Tuesday at sunset),
was "the preparation day", on which the crucifixion took place:

for all four Gospels definitely say that this was the day
on which the Lord was buried (before our Wednesday sunset),
"because it was the preparation [day]"

the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day,
"for that sabbath day was a high day",
and, therefore, not the ordinary seventh day, or weekly sabbath.
See John 19:31.

see: The Chronology of Christ's Crucifixion & Resurrection.




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Couple of New Threads
vs O.P., Was it Friday?

Jesus died on Wednesday, the 14th Nisan,
3 hours before the 15th of Nisan Annual High Day Sabbath.

The 14th Nisan (A Preparation Day; before the Sabbath High Day)
was not before a double Sabbath.