John 12:2, . . . they made him a supper; and Martha served: . . . .
It was not the Sabbath, so it wasn't our Saturday.
John 12:12, On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, . . . .
So that next day wouldn't be our Sunday, in order to have been our Palm Sunday.
There is no evidence there.
John said Jesus came to Bethany 6 days before the Passover. Go to the Passover and count backward and see what day you get. However, start with the resurrection being on the eighth day, which is the beginning of a NEW week (
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)
Why did Jesus pass through Jericho on his way to Bethany and declare to Zacchaeus at his house that he MUST stay at his house? Why this language? Why
must he abide with him? Language in the scripures is very important. It has doctrine in the words.
5 And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for
to day I must abide at thy house.
As this ended with Zacchaeus, John, I think, wants us to know that Zacchaeus house is within a Sabbath days journey to Bethany (house of figs)
.
Lu 19:11 And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable,
because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear.
Here is something to consider. God's creation demonstrates his thinking of a 6 day work week that is ended by a day of rest. This is the model we are able to observe in the scriptures. Any scenario that is contrived that violates this model will be forsaken by the person that believes God is faithful with his words.
We are told this by our Lord and it is recorded by John in chapter 5 of his gospel.
Jn 5:36 But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.
On the sixth day of this series of 7 days, Jesus was crucified and said "it is finished" and on the 7th day he rested from all his labor. This eighth day is the beginning of a new week. Remember, Jesus said this:
Revelation 21:5
And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make
all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
Many tombstones will have this prayer, "RIP." This is what Jesus did when his work was finished. He rested in peace for the whole day. That day is one thousand years and answers to the millennial reign of Christ on the earth before the eternal state where all things will be new.
A new heaven and a new earth with a New Jerusalem where the new creature (the church) will abide with a new body. But it will be after 7 full millennial days while God the Father through God the Son has renewed his creation with God his Holy Spirit indwelling all men because now there is no more sin.
John 5:17
But Jesus answered them,
My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
Believe the words! That is what God asks of us.
