Alan Dale Gross
Active Member
According to Luke they were talking about "all these things which had happened." (Luke 24:14).
This is the inspired writer of scripture who wrote this, not some statement by someone who could have been mistaken, and "all these things which had happened" would certainly have included the sealing of the tomb.
The statement of Jesus' disciples on the Emmaus road, "today is the third day since these things happened" (Luke 24:21) is explained as being the time from the last recorded scriptural event concerning Jesus, the sealing of the tomb, until the day the disciples met Jesus on the Emmaus road.
When Jesus referred to His Resurrection "on the third day", He was using the day of His death, at His crucifixion, as the starting point (Wednesday, The Passover, the Preparation Day, Nisan 14, the day before the Annual High Day Sabbath on Thursday, Nisan 15, when no work could be done including His crucifixion and burial),
but a different starting point (one day later, the Annual High Day Sabbath on Thursday, Nisan 15) is used here by Cleopas.
Therefore, while Jesus' "third day" was the second normal Weekly Sabbath, Saturday, Nisan 17,
Cleopas' "third day" was on Sunday, Nisan 18, (as they were speaking on the Road to Emmaus).
Therefore, the Emmaus Road encounter is not proof that Jesus did not die on a Wednesday, nor proof that He Rose on Sunday morning.
Luke 24:21 says it was the third day "since these things happened", on Thursday, which was including Jesus being Laid in the tomb and the guards set in place, etc., with that third day being Sunday when they were talking on the Road to Emmaus,
and Cleopas was not referring to it being the third day since "this thing", singular, happened, i.e., not that it was the third day, then, since 'the crucifixion'.
And you will notice 'the crucifixion' is not mentioned as being the starting point of Cleopas' numbering of the third day which he was specifically talking about, because it was never his intention to count the third day he was talking about as being counted from Jesus' crucifixion.
This is the inspired writer of scripture who wrote this, not some statement by someone who could have been mistaken, and "all these things which had happened" would certainly have included the sealing of the tomb.
The statement of Jesus' disciples on the Emmaus road, "today is the third day since these things happened" (Luke 24:21) is explained as being the time from the last recorded scriptural event concerning Jesus, the sealing of the tomb, until the day the disciples met Jesus on the Emmaus road.
When Jesus referred to His Resurrection "on the third day", He was using the day of His death, at His crucifixion, as the starting point (Wednesday, The Passover, the Preparation Day, Nisan 14, the day before the Annual High Day Sabbath on Thursday, Nisan 15, when no work could be done including His crucifixion and burial),
but a different starting point (one day later, the Annual High Day Sabbath on Thursday, Nisan 15) is used here by Cleopas.
Therefore, while Jesus' "third day" was the second normal Weekly Sabbath, Saturday, Nisan 17,
Cleopas' "third day" was on Sunday, Nisan 18, (as they were speaking on the Road to Emmaus).
Therefore, the Emmaus Road encounter is not proof that Jesus did not die on a Wednesday, nor proof that He Rose on Sunday morning.
Luke 24:21 says it was the third day "since these things happened", on Thursday, which was including Jesus being Laid in the tomb and the guards set in place, etc., with that third day being Sunday when they were talking on the Road to Emmaus,
and Cleopas was not referring to it being the third day since "this thing", singular, happened, i.e., not that it was the third day, then, since 'the crucifixion'.
And you will notice 'the crucifixion' is not mentioned as being the starting point of Cleopas' numbering of the third day which he was specifically talking about, because it was never his intention to count the third day he was talking about as being counted from Jesus' crucifixion.