The Women Prepare the Spices and Ointments 'AFTER the SABBATH' and Bring them to Jesus' Grave 'ON the SABBATH'(?)

[Alan Dale Gross]

"The One Intermediate Day between the Two Sabbaths."​

"The 4th scientific proof that Jesus Rose from the dead on a Sabbath morning: There is a clear biblical fact that the conventional opinion that Jesus was crucified on Good Friday and rose from the dead on Easter Sunday cannot be true at all.

"Between the burial of Jesus on the Preparation Day and His Resurrection there is not only talk of One Sabbath, but of TWO.

"The mention of these Two Sabbaths is a further valuable proof that Jesus could not have died on a Preparation Day for a double Sabbath, that is, not on a Friday.

"The biblical facts:

"The Women Prepare the Spices and Ointments BEFORE and AFTER the SABBATH."​

"An alleged contradiction arises when comparing the statements of Mk 16:1 and Lk 23:56. The evangelist Mark writes:
Mk 16:1: “When the Sabbath was past, [the women] ... bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him [Jesus].“

"But Luke says that this event was not after the Sabbath, but before:
Luke 23:55-56: “Then they returned and prepared spices and ointments.
56b On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.“

"According to Mark, the women clearly went shopping AFTER the Sabbath in order to prepare the ointments on the working day; but according to Luke, they prepared the ointments on the working day BEFORE the Sabbath in order to rest on the following Sabbath.

"This great alleged contradiction between Mark and Luke has caused many Bible readers headaches. For some, it has even been one of the greatest proofs of doubting the Authority of the Bible and making fun of the Word of God. In almost all Bible-critical books this comparison is mentioned. It has even been claimed that the Bible contains clear errors and is therefore implausible. Here the solution is very simple, as long as Christians are familiar with the calendar...

"After the Sabbath is before the Sabbath, as there are not only one or two, but even three Sabbaths in the 7-day Passover week. And this even happens every year, although in some years a yearly Sabbath may fall on a weekly Sabbath.



The Evangelists clearly speak of TWO different Sabbaths that are close in time, with at least one Intermediate Weekday in between. They describe the Preparation of ointments AFTER the Yearly High Sabbath and BEFORE the Weekly Sabbath:

"It is obvious: the Preparation Day of the 14th Nisan in that week must correspond to our Wednesday today, which was followed by the High Sabbath (Thursday). Then followed a Workday (Friday) and then the Weekly Sabbath (Saturday). It is true that this Working Day before the weekly Sabbath in the New Testament is not expressly referred to as the "Preparation Day", but this is not necessary at all, because nothing is written about this day except that the women have prepared the ointments. It is also a quite normal Preparation Day, which appears every week in the year before a Weekly Sabbath.

"The preparation day (14th Nisan) for Passover (15th Nisan, annual or high festival Sabbath) was much more important.

"The possibility that the 14th Nisan (the day of Jesus' crucifixion) falls on a Wednesday is something absolutely normal according to the biblical calendar and has come and will come in about 30% of all years. This same constellation has already very often existed not only at the time of Jesus and the first Christian congregation, but throughout the history of humanity, and every person who is reading this text right now has experienced in his life several times exactly the same holiday sequence at the time of the Passover, as in the year in which Jesus was crucified. In the following years, according to the Jewish calendar, the 14th Nisan fell on a Wednesday: 1972, 1975, 1979, 1982, 1986, 1989, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006, and 2009. In the future, too, the same Passover order will exist as at the time of Jesus, in 2020, 2023, 2026, 2027 and 2030 (see table below).

"The Women Prepare the Ointments AFTER the SABBATH'​

and Come to Jesus' Grave 'ON the SABBATH'."​

"Another alleged contradiction can be found in the Gospel of Mark. Mark mentions that at the end of the Preparation Day (clearly before the Sabbath) the women "saw where He [Jesus] was laid" (Mark 15:47) and immediately afterwards he writes:

"When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint Him" (Mark 16:1). And then immediately in the next verse (Mk 16:2) he emphasizes: "And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb."

"Martin Luther writes that the women clearly bought the ingredients for the ointments AFTER (not before!) the Sabbath and then that they came to the tomb "ON a Sabbath". Luther's words also correspond to the literal translation from the basic Greek text, which many Bible experts around the world have also translated as correct (for examples see Old Bibles). Many English Bibles have also been correctly translated and speak of the coming of women to the tomb "on a Sabbath" or "on one of the Sabbaths."

"When the Sabbath was past" and "on a Sabbath". How is this possible? Is this not a contradiction? If the women went shopping AFTER the Sabbath, then they could not possibly have come to the tomb ON the Sabbath, as there would be a whole week in between. But Mark did not make a mistake. The explanation is very simple, because also here we are talking about two different Sabbaths: Jesus was buried on the Preparation Day (14th Nisan) for the Feast Sabbath (15th Nisan) and the day after this High Sabbath the women went shopping to come to the grave on the following Weekly Sabbath (17th Nisan). There are no contradictions.

"The explanation is so simple. Any child can understand it. Here again we are clearly talking about two Sabbaths, because at the time of Passover there are always three Sabbaths within a week. After the burial of Jesus at the end of the Preparation Day (14th Nisan), the women would never have been able to prepare the ointments, because there was not enough time for shopping and preparing the ointments.

"The women went home at the end of the Preparation Day and immediately the Great High Sabbath began. The women could not go shopping on the High Sabbath, since all trade, whether in the night or day phase, was strictly forbidden and thus not possible at all. Consequently, they prepared the ointments "after the Sabbath" and came "on a Sabbath" to the tomb.

"The two Sabbaths in a row, back-to-back, during the week, (which some Seventh-day Adventists accept (see church opinions), are also not possible, since the women prepared the ointments "when the Sabbath was past" and Jesus could not otherwise have been in the tomb "three days and three nights", since at least one night would be missing.

"There must therefore have been a working day between the Sabbaths:

From: 4. The one day between the two Sabbaths

 

[searchingtruths]

"The One Intermediate Day between the Two Sabbaths."​

"The 4th scientific proof that Jesus Rose from the dead on a Sabbath morning: There is a clear biblical fact that the conventional opinion that Jesus was crucified on Good Friday and rose from the dead on Easter Sunday cannot be true at all.

"Between the burial of Jesus on the Preparation Day and His Resurrection there is not only talk of One Sabbath, but of TWO.

"The mention of these Two Sabbaths is a further valuable proof that Jesus could not have died on a Preparation Day for a double Sabbath, that is, not on a Friday.

"The biblical facts:

"The Women Prepare the Spices and Ointments BEFORE and AFTER the SABBATH."​

"An alleged contradiction arises when comparing the statements of Mk 16:1 and Lk 23:56. The evangelist Mark writes:
Mk 16:1: “When the Sabbath was past, [the women] ... bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him [Jesus].“

"But Luke says that this event was not after the Sabbath, but before:
Luke 23:55-56: “Then they returned and prepared spices and ointments.
56b On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.“

"According to Mark, the women clearly went shopping AFTER the Sabbath in order to prepare the ointments on the working day; but according to Luke, they prepared the ointments on the working day BEFORE the Sabbath in order to rest on the following Sabbath.

"This great alleged contradiction between Mark and Luke has caused many Bible readers headaches. For some, it has even been one of the greatest proofs of doubting the Authority of the Bible and making fun of the Word of God. In almost all Bible-critical books this comparison is mentioned. It has even been claimed that the Bible contains clear errors and is therefore implausible. Here the solution is very simple, as long as Christians are familiar with the calendar...

"After the Sabbath is before the Sabbath, as there are not only one or two, but even three Sabbaths in the 7-day Passover week. And this even happens every year, although in some years a yearly Sabbath may fall on a weekly Sabbath.
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The Evangelists clearly speak of TWO different Sabbaths that are close in time, with at least one Intermediate Weekday in between. They describe the Preparation of ointments AFTER the Yearly High Sabbath and BEFORE the Weekly Sabbath:
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"It is obvious: the Preparation Day of the 14th Nisan in that week must correspond to our Wednesday today, which was followed by the High Sabbath (Thursday). Then followed a Workday (Friday) and then the Weekly Sabbath (Saturday). It is true that this Working Day before the weekly Sabbath in the New Testament is not expressly referred to as the "Preparation Day", but this is not necessary at all, because nothing is written about this day except that the women have prepared the ointments. It is also a quite normal Preparation Day, which appears every week in the year before a Weekly Sabbath.

"The preparation day (14th Nisan) for Passover (15th Nisan, annual or high festival Sabbath) was much more important.

"The possibility that the 14th Nisan (the day of Jesus' crucifixion) falls on a Wednesday is something absolutely normal according to the biblical calendar and has come and will come in about 30% of all years. This same constellation has already very often existed not only at the time of Jesus and the first Christian congregation, but throughout the history of humanity, and every person who is reading this text right now has experienced in his life several times exactly the same holiday sequence at the time of the Passover, as in the year in which Jesus was crucified. In the following years, according to the Jewish calendar, the 14th Nisan fell on a Wednesday: 1972, 1975, 1979, 1982, 1986, 1989, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006, and 2009. In the future, too, the same Passover order will exist as at the time of Jesus, in 2020, 2023, 2026, 2027 and 2030 (see table below).

"The Women Prepare the Ointments AFTER the SABBATH'​

and Come to Jesus' Grave 'ON the SABBATH'."​

"Another alleged contradiction can be found in the Gospel of Mark. Mark mentions that at the end of the Preparation Day (clearly before the Sabbath) the women "saw where He [Jesus] was laid" (Mark 15:47) and immediately afterwards he writes:

"When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint Him" (Mark 16:1). And then immediately in the next verse (Mk 16:2) he emphasizes: "And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb."

"Martin Luther writes that the women clearly bought the ingredients for the ointments AFTER (not before!) the Sabbath and then that they came to the tomb "ON a Sabbath". Luther's words also correspond to the literal translation from the basic Greek text, which many Bible experts around the world have also translated as correct (for examples see Old Bibles). Many English Bibles have also been correctly translated and speak of the coming of women to the tomb "on a Sabbath" or "on one of the Sabbaths."

"When the Sabbath was past" and "on a Sabbath". How is this possible? Is this not a contradiction? If the women went shopping AFTER the Sabbath, then they could not possibly have come to the tomb ON the Sabbath, as there would be a whole week in between. But Mark did not make a mistake. The explanation is very simple, because also here we are talking about two different Sabbaths: Jesus was buried on the Preparation Day (14th Nisan) for the Feast Sabbath (15th Nisan) and the day after this High Sabbath the women went shopping to come to the grave on the following Weekly Sabbath (17th Nisan). There are no contradictions.

"The explanation is so simple. Any child can understand it. Here again we are clearly talking about two Sabbaths, because at the time of Passover there are always three Sabbaths within a week. After the burial of Jesus at the end of the Preparation Day (14th Nisan), the women would never have been able to prepare the ointments, because there was not enough time for shopping and preparing the ointments.

"The women went home at the end of the Preparation Day and immediately the Great High Sabbath began. The women could not go shopping on the High Sabbath, since all trade, whether in the night or day phase, was strictly forbidden and thus not possible at all. Consequently, they prepared the ointments "after the Sabbath" and came "on a Sabbath" to the tomb.

"The two Sabbaths in a row, back-to-back, during the week, (which some Seventh-day Adventists accept (see church opinions), are also not possible, since the women prepared the ointments "when the Sabbath was past" and Jesus could not otherwise have been in the tomb "three days and three nights", since at least one night would be missing.

"There must therefore have been a working day between the Sabbaths:
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From: 4. The one day between the two Sabbaths

Amen.

During that week there were special sabbaths (more than one) / preparation for the Passover.

I also believe and for quite a few years that Christ rose on the 7th Day Sabbath.

 

[Alan Dale Gross]

I also believe and for quite a few years that Christ rose on the 7th Day Sabbath.

Yes sir, the King James says Mary and the others came to Jesus' grave "early in the morning on the first day of the week", so that still means He could have Risen much earlier than that, on the 7th Day Sabbath, and He did.

Three days and three nights from His crucifixion and burial, on our Wednesday before 6 pm.

 

[rstrats]

"The possibility that the 14th Nisan (the day of Jesus' crucifixion) falls on a Wednesday is something absolutely normal according to the biblical calendar and has come and will come in about 30% of all years.

How do you square a Wednesday crucifixion with Luke 24:21?

 

[Alan Dale Gross]

Luke 24:21

"But we trusted that it had been He which should have Redeemed Israel:
and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done," Luke 24:21.

It takes Faith to be mixed in with the Word and we believe in the Blood Atonement by Faith through the Word. So, why not have enough Faith to just see that the disciple may be talking about something that they all understood, but that isn't what our first impulse tells us about what we assume they may be referring to, exactly, but hopefully our first impulse will not always be the only consideration and impulse we ever cling to, sometimes.

I believe that the salient information to determine a Wednesday crucifixion is to consider the subject of his statement being, "to day is the third day since these things were done,". When we look carefully at it we are faced with the words, "these things".

I can do no better than to quote what the general Google AI had to say about "these things" and how they may have most definitely been meant by the disciple to be defined a;

"Meaning of "These Things".

• • The Events: "These things" refer to the Betrayal, Unjust Condemnation, and Execution of Jesus. [1, 2]

Now, if we get that as to what the words "These things" in that sentence may actually mean and that is that he was specifically referring to "the Betrayal, Unjust Condemnation, and Execution of Jesus", then the Timeline of a Wednesday crucifixion fits like a hand in a glove.

The disciple was referring only to the major issues which had just come to pass as Fulfillment of Prophecy, as having a Three Day characteristic with it, since it would be the Resurrection that was said to be Three Days and Three Nights from His "Betrayal, Unjust Condemnation, and the Execution of Jesus".

The crucifixion took place and He was buried on Wednesday, just prior to 6 pm., and Three Days and Three Nights later Jesus Rose from the dead on the Saturday Sabbath, just prior to 6 pm., on our Saturday, also.

Then later that afternoon, after Mary and them went to Jesus' Grave "early in the morning on the first day of the week", it was Sunday the forth day from the crucifixion, but when the disciple was referring to the time he was counting, concerning the enormous importance to the most significant "Three Days and Three Nights" that had just taken place, he simple referred to it intact, not concerning himself about counting the day he was on, in his figuring.

He wasn't counting from the actual day he was on, but he borrowed from the well-known statement about Three Days and Three Nights and was just saying that that time period had already elapsed and then he's saying "here we are this afternoon with all our hopes banished, after all "these things" that just happened over the last Three Days and Three Nights" have been fully accomplished, and the Fulfillment of that Prophecy is over already. Now, what are we going to do? It looks like all that "Three Days and Three Nights" thing didn't work(???) It's been that long, as we all know."

I deemphasized the Sunday he was speaking on in that sentence.

"But we trusted that it had been He which should have Redeemed Israel:
and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done," Luke 24:21.

The Greek will bare that out.

That is a precise grammatical breakdown! In Ancient Greek, τρίτην ταύτην ἡμέραν (tritēn tautēn hēmeran) is a classic example of an accusative of time.
Depending on the context, it functions in two main ways:

• • Duration of Time: Indicating how long an action has been ongoing ("when this third day took place,").
  • Point of Time: Pinpointing an exact time frame, often used idioms with the demonstrative pronoun (ταύτην) to mean "it already makes three days since..." or "the third day has happened by now...".

 

[rstrats]

"But we trusted that it had been He which should have Redeemed Israel:
and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done," Luke 24:21.

I've read your post over several times and I'm still trying to understand what you're saying. So, for the moment, let me just leave one queston:


Who is saying "...it would be the Resurrection that was said to be Three Days and Three Nights from His "Betrayal, Unjust Condemnation, and the Execution of Jesus"?

 

[Alan Dale Gross]

Who is saying "...it would be the Resurrection that was said to be Three Days and Three Nights from His "Betrayal, Unjust Condemnation, and the Execution of Jesus"?

I did.

I was not clear enough about "these things" including the Authorities setting a watch at the tomb. That was another major event that would have struck him as being part of "these things" he was talking about.

So, rather than me leveraging with the purely Colloquial speech, where some scholars suggest the disciples are speaking loosely about the block of tragic events that started mid-week rather than giving a strict mathematical equation for the hours elapsed since Wednesday afternoon, I need to emphasize now that the disciple was considering his starting time as including the Thursday sitting of the Guard.

Thursday is the first day that he is considering to be his "today is the third day" calculation, because he is thinking about the last big event that had taken place, i.e., the Appointment of the Guard that day; "to day is the third day since these things were done," Luke 24:21.

Since, the Appointment of the Guard, Thursday.

Jesus was Crucified and buried before 6 pm Wednesday.

6 pm Thursday. 6 pm Friday. 6 pm Saturday. Three days and three nights.


From: https://www.ucg.org/learn/bible-que...ey-said-today-third-day-these-things-happened

"It's logical to question how it could be the third day, when Christ was in the grave for a full three days and three nights as He had promised in Matthew 12:39-40. In Luke 24, the two disciples referred to Sunday as being the third day since "all these things" (Luke 24:14) happened. There were other things the Jews and Romans did after Christ was buried. Notice what Matthew included about their actions:

"On the next day, which followed the Day of Preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees gathered together to Pilate, saying, 'Sir, we remember, while He was still alive, how that deceiver said, "After three days I will rise." Therefore command that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest His disciples come by night and steal Him away, and say to the people, "He has risen from the dead." So the last deception will be worse than the first.' Pilate said to them, 'You have a guard; go your way, make it as secure as you know how.' So they went and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone and setting the guard" (Matthew 27:62-66).

"Christ had already been buried nearly one whole day when these things were done.

"The last things the Romans and Jewish leaders did were to seal the tomb and place soldiers on guard around it. Christ died on Wednesday afternoon. So the tomb was sealed on Thursday, the day following that Day of Preparation. Apparently the disciples were including these events in their reference to the things that had taken place. Counting from the securing of the tomb and the setting of the guard, Sunday would have been the "third day" since "all these things" happened.

 

[Alan Dale Gross]

I've read your post over several times and I'm still trying to understand what you're saying.

Here's another take on Luke 24:21;

But we were hoping that it was he who was about to redeem Israel:
and beside all this, today is the third day since these things happened.

"What is the problem with this scripture? It is the phrase "today is the third day" (Luke 24:21), and the fact that we have taught that Jesus died and was buried on a 14th Nisan, a Wednesday afternoon. Now if we count the days from then, Thursday would be the first day, Friday would be the second day, and Saturday would be the third day, but this conversation on the Emmaus road is Sunday afternoon.

"This we know because it is said to be "on the same day" (Luke 24:13),
which refers back to "on the first day of the week" (Luke 24:1 KJV)
or "on one day from the Sabbath" (Luke 24:1 RPT).
So there is an apparent disagreement which needs to be explained.

"The question to ask is, "What are THESE THINGS that these men referred to?" - from where this three day period started. To know the answer we must look back at the previous verses to see what they were referring to.

"In verse 18 Cleopas said to Jesus,
"Are you only sojourning in Jerusalem, and have not known the things which came to pass there in these days?"

"Then in verse 19 Jesus asked him a question, "What things?" Well this is what we need to know, so look at his reply;
"Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, Who was a Prophet Powerful in Deed and Word before God and all the people."

So the things that "these things" referred to in verse 21 are the things concerning Jesus of Nazareth.

"THESE THINGS" would include:
His Arrest,
Trial,
Crucifixion,
death,
the piercing of His side,
His removal from the cross,
the Anointing of His body,
His burial,
and the Sealing of the Tomb on the following day.

(Matthew 27:62)
"And on the next day, which is after the Preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees had gathered together to Pilate,

63 Saying, Sir, we remembered that that deceiver said, while He was Living, After three days I Will Arise.
64 Command therefore that the tomb be secured until the third day, lest His Disciples coming by night, steal Him away, and say to the people, He was Raised from the dead: and the last deception shall be worse than the first.

65 Pilate said to them, You have a guard: go your way, make it as sure as you know how.
66 So when they had gone, they made the Tomb secure, Sealing the Stone, with a guard.

"How can we know that this Sealing of the Tomb was one of the events included in "these things" (Luke 24:21)?

Here are some reasons:

(1) The meeting of the scribes and Pharisees with Pontius Pilate was "about", "concerning", or "to do with" Jesus. The sealing of the tomb was "about", "concerning", or "to do with" Jesus, which is what the Greek word περὶ (Gtr. peri) translated "concerning" means. So the things that the disciples were talking about, "Concerning Jesus of Nazareth" (Luke 24:19), would have included the sealing of the tomb. It cannot be said that this only refers to events that happened while Jesus was alive, because 'peri' is often used in other places concerning dead people, and Jesus after he died (Matthew 17:13, Acts 1:16, 25:9, 28:23, 28:31, 1 Thessalonians 4:13, 1 John 5:9, 5:10, Jude 1:9).

(2) If the events referred to were only his arrest, trial, crucifixion, and death, and nothing after, then the disciples would have been referring to events that happened "on that day" - the Passover. But they referred to, "the things which came to pass there in these days" (Luke 24:18). Note the plural "days", and note also that the word "there" refers to "in Jerusalem" (Luke 24:18). So they must have referred to events on more than one day, namely 14th and 15th Nisan, the Passover and the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. They were not referring to events that happened before this because Jesus did not enter into Jerusalem until the day of the Passover (Matthew 26:17-18, Mark 14:12-13).

(3) After the sealing of the tomb, little is recorded in scripture of anything that happened until the women came to the tomb on Sunday morning. There are therefore two complete days, the 16th and 17th of Nisan, where nothing is recorded about what the Romans or the Jews did concerning Jesus. Sunday was therefore the third day after the sealing of the tomb. This is the same third day that the chief priests and the Pharisees mentioned when they said, "Command therefore that the tomb be secured until the third day" (Matthew 27:64). This referred to the day after the Sabbath as the guards were still there that morning (Matthew 28:4); the same day that the disciples were on the Emmaus road. This is what "this is the third day" (Luke 24:21) refers to.

"Some have said that the Disciples "may not have known" about the Sealing of the Tomb, but that is nothing more than a speculative comment. 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.

"In conclusion, 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;

1.) the time from the last recorded scriptural event concerning Jesus, the sealing of the tomb,
2.) 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 as the starting point,
but a different starting point (one day later) is used here by Cleopas.

"Therefore, while Jesus' "third day" was the Sabbath,
Cleopas' "third day" was on Sunday.

"Therefore, the Emmaus Road encounter is not proof that Jesus did not die on a Wednesday,
nor proof that He Rose on Sunday morning."

 

[Alan Dale Gross]

Who is saying "...it would be the Resurrection that was said to be Three Days and Three Nights from His "Betrayal, Unjust Condemnation, and the Execution of Jesus"?

Yes, not to beat a dead horse, but I see what you are asking now.

I wasn't saying that the "today is the third day since these things happened" (Luke 24:21) verse has anything to do with what Jesus said about, "on the third day" here:

"When Jesus referred to His Resurrection "on the third day",
He was using the day of His death as the starting point,

Jesus was talking about "on the third day" from Wednesday, Nisan 14/the crucifixion.

Cleopas wasn't. Cleopas was using the day after the crucifixion/Wednesday 14 Nisan, when they set the guards in place as his starting point to count "today is the third day" (since the posting of those guards/Thursday 15 Nisan).

"Therefore, while Jesus' "third day" was the Sabbath,

but a different starting point (one day later) is used here by Cleopas.

"In conclusion, 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;

1.) the time from the last recorded scriptural event concerning Jesus, the sealing of the tomb,
2.) until the day the disciples met Jesus on the Emmaus road.

Cleopas' "third day" was on Sunday.