Zuno Yazh
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In order to avoid quarrelling over the meanings of day and night during Passover, I suggest we fall in line with Christ's because who better than anyone else is undeniably qualified to tell us how to understand a day as it was understood during the years when he himself was living in Israel.
● John 11:9 . . Jesus answered: are there not twelve hours in the day? A man who walks by day will not stumble, for he sees by this world's light.
This world's light is of course the sun as per Gen 1:14-18. So then, "day" is when the sun is up rather than when the sun is not up. In order to avoid confusion; I highly recommend letting Day be daytime and Night be nighttime; viz: the three days and three nights of Jonah 1:17, Matt 12:40, John 2:19-22 indicate three times when the sun was up, and three times when the sun was down.
Days divided into twelve equal periods of sunlight were regulated by what's known as temporal hours; which vary in length in accordance with the time of year. There are times of the year at Jerusalem's latitude when this world's light consists of less than 12 normal hours of sun, and sometimes more; but when Jesus was here; the official number of hours was always twelve regardless.
I don't exactly know why the Jews of that era divided their days into twelve equal periods of sunlight regardless of the seasons, but I suspect it was just a convenient way to operate the government and conduct civil affairs; including the Temple's activities (e.g. the daily morning and evening sacrifices)
Anyway; the preponderance of evidence indicates that Christ's crucified dead body returned to life on the third day rather than after the third day was completely over and done with. In other words: his resurrection did not take place at night.
Matt 17:22-23
Mark 9:31
Luke 9:22
Luke 24:46
Acts 10:40
1Cor 15:4
NOTE: Even little children know the difference between night and day; especially those afraid of the dark, and they know that night begins when the sun goes down and day begins with the sun comes up. When a supposed adult can't even understand things as elementary as those, then I have to seriously question their understanding of things that are beyond a child's ability to grasp.
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In order to avoid quarrelling over the meanings of day and night during Passover, I suggest we fall in line with Christ's because who better than anyone else is undeniably qualified to tell us how to understand a day as it was understood during the years when he himself was living in Israel.
● John 11:9 . . Jesus answered: are there not twelve hours in the day? A man who walks by day will not stumble, for he sees by this world's light.
This world's light is of course the sun as per Gen 1:14-18. So then, "day" is when the sun is up rather than when the sun is not up. In order to avoid confusion; I highly recommend letting Day be daytime and Night be nighttime; viz: the three days and three nights of Jonah 1:17, Matt 12:40, John 2:19-22 indicate three times when the sun was up, and three times when the sun was down.
Days divided into twelve equal periods of sunlight were regulated by what's known as temporal hours; which vary in length in accordance with the time of year. There are times of the year at Jerusalem's latitude when this world's light consists of less than 12 normal hours of sun, and sometimes more; but when Jesus was here; the official number of hours was always twelve regardless.
I don't exactly know why the Jews of that era divided their days into twelve equal periods of sunlight regardless of the seasons, but I suspect it was just a convenient way to operate the government and conduct civil affairs; including the Temple's activities (e.g. the daily morning and evening sacrifices)
Anyway; the preponderance of evidence indicates that Christ's crucified dead body returned to life on the third day rather than after the third day was completely over and done with. In other words: his resurrection did not take place at night.
Matt 17:22-23
Mark 9:31
Luke 9:22
Luke 24:46
Acts 10:40
1Cor 15:4
NOTE: Even little children know the difference between night and day; especially those afraid of the dark, and they know that night begins when the sun goes down and day begins with the sun comes up. When a supposed adult can't even understand things as elementary as those, then I have to seriously question their understanding of things that are beyond a child's ability to grasp.
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