Featured Is Mattew 12:40 Employing Common Jewish Idiomatic Language?

Wow. I was stumped until I found this website:

Jesus Wasn't Crucified on Friday or Resurrected on Sunday: How long was Jesus in the tomb?

Jesus was in the tomb for over 72 hours! I didn't know that. All is concluded in my mind.

Again, I have found that I should never trust information form the Roman Catholic Church.

I really want to debate whether she is MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT one day when I have time on another thread.

 

Wow, I didn't even notice the source. Thank you for warning me. That said, they are using astronomical software, which is very reliable. I'll have to find the software and use it myself for maximum reliability.

 

My job was not to provide examples that you could not reject, personal incredulity is a non-rebuttal. I provided examples where several commentators agree, they show, taken together, that the saying "three days and three nights" could refer to the day after tomorrow, or from Friday, before sundown to Sunday at sunrise. Others that have studied the idea believe in longer durations, but the view I presented is still the mainstream view.

 

For you Thursday (or is it Wednesday?) crucifixion folks: How and why did Friday become the tradition? Was that no one could count three days and three nights?

 

That seems highly unlikely to me, seeing they could read the law as well as we can, and had the access to rabbinical tradition we do, if not better.

 

The corruptions that crept in doesn't negate their scholarship. Whether or not there were high holy days in Judaism has nothing to do with one's theology. Rabbinical tradition was just as corrupt, yet their scholarship was eminent.

Right or wrong moving the observance to Friday had to have been purposeful.

 

And, whether you are willing to admit it or not, I provided two examples, that taken together demonstrate 3 days and 3 nights could mean the day after tomorrow. Also personal incredulity is a non-rebuttal, a logical fallacy. Since multiple commentators understand the examples as I have outlined the meaning, your rejection of the interpretation carries no water.

Here is Benson Commentary:

1 Samuel 30:12-13. Three days and nights — One whole day, and part of two others, as appears from the next verse, where he says, Three days ago I fell sick; but in the Hebrew it is, This is the third day since I fell sick. A young man of Egypt

 

And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. Gen 1:5

I guess that was before there was any, "
Jewish Idiomatic Language,"

 

And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

And the evening and the morning were the third day.

I was just trying to formulate in my mind whether this was really three evenings and three mornings or just part of three evenings and mornings that made up the third day.

Just thinking out loud, I guess.

I've made up my mind. I think it was seventy two hours.

I also think the Son of Man was in the heart of the earth, whatever that means, seventy two hours.