Crucifixion Happened ON Wednesday

[Gerhard Ebersoehn]

I could answer in detail, but it's after 1 am here. So a last few remarks,
If Jesus was crucified on Nisan 14, Thursday - according to your own stance - and was raised "the third day according to the Scriptures" (No matter what your stance), he had to have been raised on Saturday. That would be on Nisan 16 and Day of First Sheaf BECAUSE resurrection and First Sheaf correspond.

Not being mention 'Nisan 16' doesn't mean Nisan 16 had nothing to do with the Feasts. It fell right in the centre of the Feast, how could it not be part of it? If Nisan 15 is called the sabbath of the Passover then surely the "day after the sabbath (of the Passover)" is Day of First Sheaf!
"The third day according to the Scriptures" -- which Scriptures? - the Passover Scriptures - Lv23 i.a.

 

[EdSutton]

Ed Sutton,
" the "high day" Sabbath can occur (and did about one year out of every seven) on the same day as the regular "weekly sabbath". It just did not happen to so occur during the Passion Week. Other Scriptures show this, including some I've posted."

GE
This to me cannot be particularly important, but nevertheless interests me, that how do you arrive at this deducement (I wouldn't call it a 'conclusion')?

What I have noticed from many theories about our subject , is how many times in 'statistics' co-incidences of 14th Nisan there are on Thursday! It's unbelievable, even so obvious one could be pardoned for not taking everything trustworthy. Nevertheless it was a noticeable imbalance in all the calendars I have seen.

Maybe I got the wrong idea of what you are driving at, here. One reason I say that the crucifixion and "Passover" of and on 14 Nisan had to occur on Thursday, has to do with the 'movements' of the Lord, Himself.
As the Romans (and we) reckon time, "Six days before the Passover" Jesus came to Bethany." (John 12:1) As Passover was 14 Nisan, this must be 8 Nisan, or Friday, for He had come from the area of Ephraim, several miles away, and far too long for "a Sabbath Day's journey" ( Jn. 11:54-12:1).
9 Nisan was the Sabbath, so the Lord 'rested', with his disciples, over the Sabbath, apparently, at Bethany, and probably with Mary, Martha, and Lazurus, at their home.

"The Lamb was to be taken on 10 Nisan or "Palm Sunday", as it happened to be, kept and examined unto 14 Nisan, and be killed "between the (or two) 'evenings'", which time I believe was usually considered by the Jews as between around 3:00 PM to darkness. Some had "extended this" to the time to be considered any time after midday, even.

I have offered, already, that Jesus gave this a new meaning and understanding- the entire time of 14 Nisan from around 3:00 PM the previous afternoon until the next evening. This is still "between two evenings" I have just found something that sheds some light on this, IMO.

But I will not post the link, as I usually would, for I believe it to also contain a lot of bad doctrine, and choose not to contriute to its spread.

The Rabbinic tradition apparently considered this time, as I have stated above, at least some of them did. The crucifixion had to be on 14 Nisan. If 14 Nisan were on Friday, then 10 Nisan was on Monday. This dioes not present a problem of itself, but that makes Jesus have to travel from Ephraim several miles on 8 Nisan, violating the "Sabbath days' journey" which was the distance from the Temple to the Mount of Olives, the maximun distance a Hebrew was allowd to travel on the Sabbath, from their 'home'.

Some of the "well to do" had managed to get around this provision, apparently, by establishing multiple homes, where they wanted to go. That did not work for Jesus, for He had no home, and only 'borrowed' lodging from his Bethany friends, hence was limited to their home base, up to a distance of about .8 miles, or roughly the distance from Bethany to the Mount of Olives, as the Mount of Olives lay between Jerusalem and Bethany. So Jesus cannot come into Bethany on the sabbath, nor can he come frm Bethany to Jerusalem, on the Sabbath, which a Wednesday crucifixion requires - the same principle. It's too long a journey under the Law, and Our Lord kept the Law perfectly.
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And that is one reason I have said that either a Wednesday or Friday date for the crucifixion of 14 Nisan is impossible for Jesus.

Ed

 

[EdSutton]

Ed Sutton,
" I may yet have to come back and post why the Lamb was 'taken' on "Palm Sunday", and killed 'Thursday', having to do with Jesus keeping the Sabbath.)"

GE

No, I'm not 'keeping ignoring it!' One thing at a time - there are many!

As I have said before, I take Jesus our Passover Lamb as the Rule, even of the 'OT' Passover. If the OT says the lamb should be "separated" on Nisan 10, then it is because it would be, and was, the case in the case of Jesus Christ. (That is 'my eschatology' I don't ask you to accept for your own. God's will shall be.) Seen posteriorly from this point of view (if you can take what I say), the Passover Lamb had been 'taken' or 'separated' Nisan 10. Nisan 14 He had to be slaughtered; Nisan 15 buried, Nisan 16 raised.
So, take Friday the "Fore-Sabbath" - which we are told in so many words was the day on which the Lamb was buried, Friday must have been Niasn 15.

Thursday must have been Nisan 14, "Day before the Passover Feast" (Jn13:1) on which the Lamb was slaughtered;

On Wednesday (Nisan 13) it had to have been said, "two days ... the Feast (sabbath)", Mk14:1;

On Tuesday (Nisan 12) it had to have been said, "two days ... crucified (Preparation of Passover)", Mt26:2;

Monday (Nisan 11) Mk11:12, "the next day" ... since ...

Sunday (Nisan 10) Jn12:12, "the next day" 'Palm Sunday' ... since ...

Saturday (Nisan 9) Jn12:1, "where Lazarus stayed ... lunch" ... since ... "Six days before the Feast Day" (Nisan 15)!

Friday (Nisan 8) Jn12:12 arrival in Bethany




"Why the Lamb (Jesus) was 'taken' on

I basically agree with this general outline, except for when the Lord was raised, and the burial of the Lord's body. However, as I've said before, that is not primary to the "time frame" that I have been attempting to expound of "threes" ("days and nights"; "in three days", "after three days", or whatever).

But a 'Thursday' crucifixionis primary to this. effort!

Ed

 

[Gerhard Ebersoehn]

Dear Ed Sutton,

Now about your observation, “ES- Nope!! ... 16 Nisan is never named, having to do with the feasts! In fact, the only occurrence of "sixteenth day of the first month" (Nisan) in Scripture, had to do with Hezekiah ordering the filth cleaned from the Temple in II Chronicles 29:17, where this was completed on the outer areas ("the vestibule of the LORD") on the 16th day of the first month. In fact, this is the only reference to the 16th day of any month found in Scripture, to my knowledge.”

You are an observant Bible student, Ed Sutton! Let us reach a few perspectives on this, therefore.

What does ‘the filth cleaned from the Temple’ in 2Chronicles 29:17 on Nisan 16 hold for the Prophetic significance of First Sheaf seeing it was figurative of Jesus’ resurrection from the dead whereby our sins were cleansed from the temple of His habitation, us, His Church? I believe Romans 5:10 has precisely the Passover significance of order underlying it, where Paul declares, “For if, when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son (Nisan 14, Lamb slaughtered), MUCH MORE being reconciled shall we be saved by His LIFE” of First Sheaf Wave Offering before the LORD – Nisan 16! Jesus resurrection has ultimate ‘CLEANSING POWER’ – “MUCH MORE” than without there could be ANY, forgiveness of sins. “If Christ be not raised you are yet in your sin” i.e., not “washed” / “cleansed from our sins in His blood” (Rv1:5). “So also is the resurrection of the dead, it is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption (and cleanliness).” The temple’s floor was cleansed on Resurrection Day; Jesus on the day of His Death, washed the feet of them that walked the temple’s floors, then asked them, “Know ye what I have done to you?”

Dear Ed, nothing of the OT happened without its meaning founded upon and being found in, Christ, not even the datings you may found scattered throughout! “Hezekiah did that which was right in the sight of the LORD ... He in ... the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD.” (Resurrection) “He brought in ... and gathered … in the east street.” (Resurrection) “And he said ... Hear me (the Word) sanctify now yourself (Read Acts 2:22-24, “receive remission of sin in the Name of Jesus Christ.” Compare 2Chr29:6-7 with “Him ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain.” Cf verse 10 with Acts 2:39) “What shall we do?” “It is in mine heart (‘pricked in heart’) to make covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that His fierce wrath may TURN AWAY from us. ... For the LORD God hath chosen you to stand before Him (Resurrection), to serve Him, and that ye should minister unto Him ...” Minister what? First Sheaf Wave Offering “BEFORE THE LORD”! “In the sixteenth day of the First Month THEY MADE AN END. (Christ: “The third day I finish!”) “THEN THEY WENT IN TO THE KING, AND SAID, WE HAVE CLEANSED ALL THE HOUSE OF THE LORD!” (Read the rest of that verse, 18, and see how Jesus made an end of sacrifice ... Daniel speaks of it too!) Don’t you too see Jesus exalted to the throne of God on Resurrection Day – First Sheaf Wave Offering Before the LORD-day, Nisan 16, all over and in all, and through all! Ed Sutton, what do you read in the OT? On 16 Nisan “reconciliation”, and “atonement” (24), was “FINISHED” – Resurrection! “The Song of the LORD began with trumpets (cf.Ex16 the Song of Moses, and Rv, the Song of MOSES AND THE LAMB “ – it’s the one SONG OF SONGS” - Resurrection / Redemption / Cleansing Song! “And when they have made an end of offering , the king and all that were present with him, bowed themselves, and worshipped!”

My heart is full! What can I say more? But that what on this occasion could happen, could have happened on but the sixteenth day of the First Month, yet on any day of the week, but, that when what happened here happened in and through Christ, it all could have happened but on the sixteenth day of the First Month, AND BUT “on the Seventh Day God THUS CONCERNING DID SPEAK” ‘in the SON-KING’, “in these last days”.

You said you couldn’t find a trace the several Feast Days being all brought to finality of significance on the Sabbath Day. I hope this instance will make things clearer.


Nevertheless, if this one incidence of the mention of Nisan 16 could mean nothing to you as with regard to the Feasts of the Israel of God and even less to the Sabbath of the God of Israel, I should surely not be unreasonable if I asked you how you could transfer all this meaning of First Sheaf Wave Offering onto Nisan 17, which is not only removed four days from Nisan 14 and first day of the three days according to the Scriptures, but also, is not even once, mentioned in the Scriptures?

 

[Gerhard Ebersoehn]

Ed Sutton
“... the days of harvesting the grain (and the presentation of the "first-fruits" wave sheaf) could not have started on 16 Nisan when that date fell on a regular weekly Sabbath.”

GE
(Let me quickly point out a specific that is totally unwarranted generalised to the extinction of the specific, which is the ‘wave sheaf’ as if being ordinarily a "first-fruits". I noticed that you said “the "first-fruits" wave sheaf”; but it would be better if described just ‘First Sheaf’ – it had no commonality about it; the First Sheaf was specific of the sixteenth day of the First Month! It belonged to the DATE; not to a day of the week – in any case not until the Messiah had become its Fulfilment and the Finisher of the Faith of First Sheaf Wave Offering before the LORD – Only then did it become a specific of the Seventh Day Sabbath the day of the Finishing of “ALL the works of GOD”.)

Unavoidably I must once more take another stance than yours. The Command to abstain from work of the Sabbath of the Fourth Commandment should not be misunderstood as an instruction for other sabbaths than the weekly. Even the weekly Sabbath which has its own ‘special’ Commandment (the ‘Fourth Commandment’), is MUCH more about God’s work than about man’s work – how much MORE should it be, not about MAN’s work of abstention from work, but about GOD’S all-exceeding work of REST – Jesus Christ!

No ‘ceremonial sabbath’ had as many works – works of prescriptions, ceremonies and sacrifices – as the weekly Sabbath had! ‘Ordinary’ sacrifices and offerings were virtually doubled for the Sabbaths of the Fourth Commandment. Wherefore should the ‘ceremonial sabbaths’ now be made days of less work and more rest than even the weekly Sabbath? (Strange how we may oppose the legalists the while we slave under our own legalism!)

Therefore, when coinciding with seasonal sabbaths, the weekly Sabbath received all in one of prescriptions, ceremonies and sacrifices, and became less a day of man’s abstention from his own works, than the day of man’s works in God’s service! Never have sacrifices and offerings of ceremony been prohibited on ANY ‘sabbath’, much less on the Sabbath of the Fourth Commandment! It’s a figment of man’s imagination they have! God’s Sabbaths were given for the worship of Him – not for man’s work of rest from his own works merely or firstly. Calvin understood that the Sabbath meant man should rest so that God may work in him. But the Sabbath was meant by God that man should on it work in His service more than on all other days; and that man should actually stand still and – through worship – should watch, how GOD, WORKS, FOR, him. (Ex14:13-14)

Nisan 16 was no ‘sabbath’; not even a ‘ceremonial sabbath’. (As you know.) And having occurred during the time of harvest, meant it was a day of obligatory and inexcusable work. When falling on any day of the week than the Sabbath, the First Sheaf was first reaped and offered, and the harvest went on as normal. When Nisan 16 coincided with the weekly Sabbath the ‘First Sheaf’ was reaped nevertheless – the First Sheaf became simply another although special ‘offering-before-the-LORD’ of the Sabbath Day. It not only was not against any Law; it was strictly according to the Law!

So there is absolutely nothing in your argument “... the days of harvesting the grain (and the presentation of the "first-fruits" wave sheaf) could not have started on 16 Nisan when that date fell on a regular weekly Sabbath.” This now has come to the fore as your main and only ‘argument’ for a Nisan 17 First Sheaf, and has itself proven its fallacy.

You again have to be reminded the eight days of Passover – one day of its Preparation and seven days of eating unleavened bread – ENDED as instructed in the Law on Nisan 21 – so it NEVER could have an extra day inserted in between any of these days. Also that Pentecost ALWAYS altogether constituted fifty days precisely – NEVER fifty one, OR, only forty nine days.

 

[Gerhard Ebersoehn]

Ed Sutton
Not sure of all you are driving at, but would note that Ex. 12:16 does not mention 14 Nisan, but refers to the seven day period of Nisan 15-21 inclusive, with the 1st and 7th days of this period being "holy convocations", where the only thing one was allowed to do was prepare food. (Ex. 12:16)

GE
I meant the first day of Unleavened Bread Eaten (‘feasted > ‘Feast’), Nisan 15, in Exodus was not 15 Nisan, but was, Nisan 14. You will notice that Exodus has both aspects of the Passover, Slaughter, and, Eat, on the fourteenth day of the month – Slaughter in the afternoon of the fourteenth, and the Eat of the lamb, after sunset in the night ... of the ... fourteenth! In later documents the Eat of the lamb is always on Nisan 15 – in its beginning; in its night-part. Only one explanation for this seeming contradictory dating is possible. At first sacrificial / ceremonial days were reckoned from sunrise to sunrise; later on – but still very early – their reckoning was changed from sunset to sunset. As it stayed permanently. So actually you should have noticed that Ex. 12:16 does not mention 15 Nisan, but refers to the seven day period of Passover at the stage in history it still started with Nisan 14 and finished on 20 Nisan. The date Nisan 21 is derived from the later stage when in all the subsequent books of the OT where mentioned, the Feast had become an eight-day Feast Period with Nisan 14, ‘The Preparation of the Passover’, included in the count of days of ‘Feast’. The section of the whole Passover of Unleavened Bread EAT/FEAST remained only seven days. Nisan 14 from then on only contained the two aspects of ‘The Passover’ – the things of “The Preparation Day” namely, the slaughter of the lamb and the removal of yeast or leaven. (Note: Mk14:12 et al, ‘a-dzumos’ = ‘removal / without leaven’; it says not ‘bread’!)

 

[Gerhard Ebersoehn]

Thesis,
“... the days of harvesting the grain (and the presentation of the "first-fruits" wave sheaf) could not have started on 16 Nisan when that date fell on a regular weekly Sabbath ...”


Anti-thesis,
I have already explained this
(1) ‘Observe the MONTH of Abib’;
(2) First Sheaf had to be “on the day after the (Passover-)Sabbath” – which you agree was Nisan 15;
(3) Sadducees’ ‘after the Sabbath-theory’ non existent in ‘Saddusaic’ sources;
(4) Nisan 21 being the last date prescribed for the 7th day of UB Feast – not on an 8th day;
(5) 50 days – not 51 days – had to be counted starting “on the day after the Passover-sabbath – Nisan 16=day 1 of fifty;
(6) manual labour in the service of the Lord obligatory on all ‘sabbaths’.)

(7) It should also be noted the date of the fifteenth of the Second Month is given (Ex16:1-3), so that 5 Sivan had become the traditional date of Shavuot to this day!

Month Date weeks days

Nisan 16 1
23 1 8
30 2 15
Zif 7 3 22
14 4 29
21 5 36
28 6 43
Sivan 5 7 50 SHAVUOT (Pentecost)

 

[Gerhard Ebersoehn]

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[Gerhard Ebersoehn]

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[Gerhard Ebersoehn]

Luke 24:46
And He said to them, " Thus it is written, that the Christ would suffer and rise again from the dead the third day.

Indeed!
No day but “the third day” – called ‘the third day’, for two reasons: (1) There would be only the three days in the Passover-event of slaughter, burial and resurrection of the Lamb looking back upon its historic course, Nisan 16, 15 and 14, retrospectively the days on which Jesus was resurrected, was buried, and was crucified and died. (2) Looking forward eschatologically, the first three days of the Passover were days Divinely appointed to their respective prophetic typology of Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection: the first First Day, First Day of eight-day Passover Feast Season, “when they had to slay the Passover”; the second First Day, First Day of seven days Unleavened Bread Feast when they buried Jesus; and the third First Day of the Passover, First Day of Fifty-Days-Pentecost or Feast-of-Weeks --- “the third day according to the Scriptures” Nisan 14, 15 and 16! The fourth day or day upon which Jesus first appeared, Nisan 17, from both perspectives is not mentioned or reckoned for any special significance.

 

[Eliyahu]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Eliyahu
The Day of the Firstfruits was the First day of the Week.

The Pentecost was always the First day of the week.

Jesus was resurrected on the first day of the week as the Firstfruits were waved on Sundays..

You have no proof that the Firstfruits day was not the first day of the week.

GE

Yes! No! Yes! No! brings nobody further, Eliyahu. But I have given you the Scriptures, and you have no word in answer. I'll give them again, as short as I can,
Jesus was buried on Friday afternoon. The Passover lamb was buried on the day before the Day of First Sheaf; So, First Sheaf had to have been on Saturday.
Jesus was buried on Friday, Nisan 15, 'a Great Day that day was', says John. There was an evening before - when Joseph received Jesus' body and did not let it hang on the tree all that night, but removed it, and that very same day, buried it, according to the Scriptures! These events comprised the whole of Friday.
The day before, from at the table, when Jesus' hour to glorify God finally arrived, until at 3 pm He gave the ghost, and everybody deserted the scene of the cross .... until the Jews to save face, asked Pilate to have the bodies removed for the prospective day would be their Great Day of deliverance: Friday. So on Thursday Jesus had been crucified and died, and on Friday was buried, and on Saturday raised from the dead again!

1. You claim that Jesus was crucified on Thursday, then was buried on Friday, which means that Jesus was in the tomb only for 2 nights or less than 40 hours, which contradicts Mt 12:39-40.

2. Your claim is quite opposite to this important commandment of the LORD.

Deutronomy 21
22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: 23 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

This is very important in several aspects:
1) God esteemed the body of the dead which was made in likeness of Him
2) Though the criminal may have to be punished for the sins, but the death penalty was enough, and no need to put the body to the shame again.
3) This was entirely aimed at the Body of Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ paid all the price for the sins, and if the Body has to be ashamed again, it contradicts the Truth that He paid all the price for the sins Once for ALL.

So, the Body could not be hung on the tree overnight at all.

3. You exaggerate Mt 27:57 and Mk 15:42 to say that the evening( of the next day) was already come, which we can find nowhere.
You should know that 2-3 hours before the sundown was called Even or between Evenings.
The season was right after the Spring Equinox and therefore the Sundown must be right after 18:00 which may be 18:00-18:30 ( the Sundown may be delayed 2 minutes per day after the Equinox, and the the Day of the ULB was the first Full-moon after Equinox). Jesus died sometime after 15:00 ( I would say it was 15:30)

4. Day of the First-fruits was always the Firstday of the Week

5. Jesus is the Firstfruit raised from the dead.

So, the following schedule could be the most plausible understanding.

Abib 8 - Friday - Jesus came to Bethany
Abib 13- Wednesday - Last Supper ( Evening was already 14 Abib)
Abib 14 - Thursday - Jesus was crucified in the morning, died in the afternoon, around 15:30 when the lambs of Passover were killed.
Jesus was buried before 18:00, and when they finished the burial, it became the Sabbath.

Abib 15 - Thursday evening thru Friday - High Sabbath - Jesus rested in the tomb

Abib 16 - Saturday ( Friday evening thru Saturday) - Jesus rested in the tomb - Regular weekly Sabbath

Abib 17 - Sunday ( First day of the week) - before 05:30, ( maybe around 04:30) Jesus was resurrected, Jewish priest was still waving the first fruits.

So, Jesus was in the earth for 3 nights( Thursday, Friday, Saturday) and 3 days, but was resurrected still on the third day.

However, I agree that nobody knows the exact schedule of what happened during the Last Week of the Lord. The above is the most plausible understanding, though.

 

[Gerhard Ebersoehn]

Eliyahu,
"You claim that Jesus was crucified on Thursday, then was buried on Friday, which means that Jesus was in the tomb only for 2 nights or less than 40 hours, which contradicts Mt 12:39-40."

GE

You hace come to the gist of it!
Jesus was not in the grave like Jonah was 'in the belly of the fish' - the literal thing Jonah was in. But He was "in the heart of the earth" - the symbolic thing for the spiritual suffering of Jesus of death - for literally three days and three nights from Thursday beginning Wednesday-night, until Saturday ending "Afternoon" - exactly the time exactly and literally written in Mt28:1.

 

[Gerhard Ebersoehn]

Eliyahu,
"2. Your claim is quite opposite to this important commandment of the LORD.

Deutronomy 21
22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: 23 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. "

GE

Once again you have come to the gist of it!
I have answered this very aspect before in this very thread. But just go read the KJV where it says, 'You must not let (the accursed body) hang on the pole ALL NIGHT'. That gave away the WRONG things in the translation otherwise as you have given it here. What sense would there be to have a accursed corpse hung upon a tree in just before sunset, and then have it taken down again just before sunset? It's silly! Then it wouldn't have hung one minute of the night it it should have hung but "not ALL night"!
That caused me to investigate this text, and I have given you the results. It in fact says just the opposite : It says the accursed had to be hung before sunset, then must not behanging till after SUNRISE, and AFTER SUNRISE it should be buries "that same day" "DAY" in daylight - not night-time in night! Just common sense as well as precise literalness -- NO 'agenda'!

 

[Gerhard Ebersoehn]

Eliyahu
"1) God esteemed the body of the dead which was made in likeness of Him
2) Though the criminal may have to be punished for the sins, but the death penalty was enough, and no need to put the body to the shame again.
3) This was entirely aimed at the Body of Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ paid all the price for the sins, and if the Body has to be ashamed again, it contradicts the Truth that He paid all the price for the sins Once for ALL.

So, the Body could not be hung on the tree overnight at all."

GE

You only philosophise. The accursed dead would hang into and through the darkness of night, but "NOT ALL night", then - as you have philosophied - would have been spared the shame to be looked upon in that shameful position yet another day; but ist shame should be covered "this same day" -- precisely as was the case with the slain king - the next day after his 'crucifixion', he was covered with such a big heep of stones, it must have taken much more time than would have remained according to the traditional view in the case of Jesus.

 

[Gerhard Ebersoehn]

Eliyahu,
"You exaggerate Mt 27:57 and Mk 15:42 to say that the evening( of the next day) was already come, which we can find nowhere."

GE
Come on, Eliyahu! Read the KJV, "Now (at this stage) when even WAS COME (=had come) because it (at this stage) WAS the Preparation (Friday - BEGINNING)."

WHY DO YOU THINK LATER TRANSLATIONS CHANGED THIS READING? Exactly for its meaning as stated unequivocally! The traditional opinion prevailed over honesty and exactness (by policy!).
I do NOT exaggerate. I only go according to the literal. It was actually quite some time INTO night here being spoken of because John says (19:31) the Jews went in to Pilate BEFORE JOSEPH! While it was still the day of crucifixion they refused to go in to Pilate; now they had no objections, and the only inference possible was because they had eaten their Passover-Meal by now --- which was way into the night!

 

[Gerhard Ebersoehn]

Eliyahu
"Day of the First-fruits was always the Firstday of the Week"

GE
It is obvious you paid attention to ANYTHING I wrote about this. This becomes a waste of time energy and words. Yours here is the vainest of arguments!

 

[Gerhard Ebersoehn]

Eliyahu
"Jesus was buried before 18:00, and when they finished the burial, it became the Sabbath."

GE
What you say have MANY implications. I shall only refer to one, the fact all the Gospels CLEARLY indicate - and some, say as much as that - "everybody returned" - to Jerusalem or anywhere else after the earthquake that marked the moment of Jesus' giving over the spirit. He was left on the cross the while His word was made true, that "EVERYONE SHALL FORSAKE ME". There simply WAS NOBODY after He had died remaining at the cross in order to take Him off and bury Him. In the dispensations of God, Joseph was alotted that task, and the time he appeared on the scene, is clear. It HAD to be "according to the (Passover) Scriptures" - the second day of the Passover. Burial according to the LAW, was FORBIDDEN while the Israelites were still IN Egypt; - also as I have shown but you just don't think anything I said worthwhile to give thought!

 

[Gerhard Ebersoehn]

Eliyahu,
"Abib 15 - Thursday evening thru Friday - High Sabbath - Jesus rested in the tomb"

GE
Here's something at last! Abib 15 - Thursday evening thruogh Friday - "High Day"-sabbath - Jesus WAS PUT TO rest in the tomb --- "and day turned towards the Sabbath" --- Friday afternoon - Friday that HAD BEGUN "when it had become evening already" the previous evening, and "because it being the Fore-Sabbath Preparation Day" - 'ehdeh opsias genomenehs epei ehn paraskeueh ho estin prosabbaton'. More precise and literal and true, you won't find!

 

[Gerhard Ebersoehn]

Eliyahu,
"Abib 16 - Saturday ( Friday evening thru Saturday) - Jesus rested in the tomb - Regular weekly Sabbath"

GE
To start with, "Jesus rested in the tomb". So death, the reward of sin, you say, was Jesus' rest in the tomb of death. Well, I reject the first principle of your phantom misconception.
I don't know how, but the Scriptures says that "the pangs of death" ended only with the resurrection of Jesus. And what we do know most assuredly, is that He endured the suffering for sins - its death-pangs - consciously and living, in most accute and climactic onslaught, before He gave the spirit over to the Father. I hold in contempt the draconic Seventh Day Adventist motivation of the Sabbath's holiness, that in every respect resembles yours. Away with it! Christ 'paid' for our sins through suffering and unrest of soul and body for three days and three nights, while dying and in death; He 'rested' in no respect but in rising from the dead, finishing all the works of God, blessing and sanctifying the Seventh Day once for all in Himself in the fullest fellowship of Father, Son and Holy Spirit in the raising of Him from the dead, "SABBATH'S-TIME", Mt.28:1!

 

[Gerhard Ebersoehn]

Eliyahu,
"Abib 17 - Sunday ( First day of the week) - before 05:30, ( maybe around 04:30) Jesus was resurrected, Jewish priest was still waving the first fruits.

So, Jesus was in the earth for 3 nights( Thursday, Friday, Saturday) and 3 days, but was resurrected still on the third day."

GE
Thursday a day in its own right of night-and-day, constitutes the first of the three nights as well as the first of the three days (of 'the three days and three nights').
Friday a day in its own right of night-and-day, constitutes the second of the three nights as well as the second of the three days (of 'the three days and three nights').
Sabbath (Saturday) a day in its own right of night-and-day, constitutes the third of the three nights as well as the third of the three days (of 'the three days and three nights') --- as well as "the third day according to the Scriptures" upon which Jesus "rose from the dead" 1Cor15:5.
Correct arithmatic!