Was Jesus crucified on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday?

[gerhard eber]

"...when Josiah had prepared the temple ... this passover was kept ... I have war against Thee This Day... Forbear thee from meddling with God who is with Jesus King of the Jews, that He destroy thee not." 2Chronicles 35:21 John 19:21

It was '15 Nissan' "already" now, "And the Jews therefore, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath, for That Day was great-day-of-sabbath-of (passover), besought Pilate that their legs might be broken and their bodies be taken away." "Have Me away, for I AM sore wounded." 2Chronicles 35:23 John 19:31

Edited August 5, 2018 by gerhard eber

[Retrobyter]

6 hours ago, gerhard eber said:

There are eight days of 'passover',

"The first day they always had to KILL the passover" ... as above; also called "Preparation of / Preparing for the passover" Exodus 12:21-27  Ezekiel 45:21-23  2Chronicles 30:15; 35:1=4=6=10,11=13,14=15=16,17=19 SEVEN times "prepared" = "kept" passover and an eighth time, "made ready = the passover" AS IN John 19:14! 

"Forbear thee from meddling with God (or God's Word) who is with Me (Jesus Christ "Our Passover" of "the fourteenth day of the First Month", "that He not destroy thee" or thy theories : 2Chronicles 30 verse 21!

 

 

6 hours ago, gerhard eber said:

Forget your '~occasionally eight~' for which you have ZERO Scripture.

The eight days comprised "the first day they KILLED the passover" passover day "the fourteenth day of the First Month", plus the "seven (more) days unleavened bread EATEN" of which seven days the first day ONLY "on the fifteenth day of the First Month" after sunset "late evening", "At That First Night", Israel ate "unleavened bread WITH THE FLESH" of the passover sacrifice sacrificed the day before sunset "mid-afternoon late on the fourteenth day of the First Month".

 

5 hours ago, gerhard eber said:

No such Scripture! The room was booked beforetime; the owner knew; Jesus said so. But nothing says '~for the Passover meal~'. It is written only of "prepared preparations that they might eat the passover" after the already ongoing but still prospective Day of "Preparation of the Passover" on which the passover would be sacrificed to be eaten after sunset thereafter. 

 

4 hours ago, gerhard eber said:

How many times is it written He would rise, "the third DAY", never '~on the third night~'!

 

3 hours ago, gerhard eber said:

Jesus was finished entombed Luke 23:54 "That Day the Preparation the Sabbath approaching" three hours before sunset Friday "due to the Jews' preparations" having begun. John 19:42. "That Day the Preparation", "which is the Fore-Sabbath" Mark 15:42 "had begun since", "it already was evening" Mark 15:42 Matthew 27:57 John 19:31 "and Joseph had besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus." John 19:38.

The day Jesus was crucified and died was over by at least three hours and a sundown and the new day the fifteenth day of the First Month, had had started when "Joseph suddenly came there" Luke 23:50, Jesus' body STILL ON THE CROSS and no prospect that it could come off any time soon.

It was '15 Nissan' "already" now, "And the Jews therefore, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath, for That Day was great-day-of-sabbath-of (passover), besought Pilate that their legs might be broken and their bodies be taken away."

Shabbat shalom, gerhard eber.

"Itching for a fight," are we?

ACTUALLY, there are SEVEN days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread and SOMETIMES it extends to eight!

"ZERO Scripture"?

Exodus 12:1-20 (KJV)

1 And the LORD (YHWH) spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. 3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: 4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take itaccording to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: 6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. 7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. 8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. 
9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof. 10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. 11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S (YHWH'S) passover. 12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD (YHWH). 13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever. 15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. 16 And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you. 17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever. 18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even. 19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land. 20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.

And, "at even" means "in the evening" which is at the BEGINNING of a 24-hour period in Hebrew timekeeping, for the Hebrew day begins at sundown with the sighting of the first three stars!

Leviticus 23:4-8 (KJV)

4 These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. 5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover. 6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. 7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. 8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

Numbers 28:16-25 (KJV)

16 And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD. 17 And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten. 18 In the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein: 19 But ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire for a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be unto you without blemish: 20 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil: three tenth deals shall ye offer for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram; 21 A several tenth deal shalt thou offer for every lamb, throughout the seven lambs: 22 And one goat for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you. 23 Ye shall offer these beside the burnt offering in the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering. 24 After this manner ye shall offer daily, throughout the seven days, the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: it shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering. 25 And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work.

Deuteronomy 16:1-8 (KJV)

1 Observe the month of Abib (Aviv [as in Tel-Aviv, meaning "Green-Hill"], today known as Nissan, the Assyrian equivalent), and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. 2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there. 3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life. 4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning. 5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee: 6 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt. 7 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents. 8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.

So, there's plenty of Scriptures.

The Day of Preparation is the 14th of Nissan (Aviv) in which the sacrifices are made for the meal to follow that evening, at the beginning of the 15th of Nissan.

Regarding the "third day" nonsense you've spouted, you've got to understand that sometimes a "day" refers to the whole 24-hour period and sometimes it refers to the daylight portion of the 24-hour period which usually lasts for 12 hours at the equinoxes. If contrasted with night or evening, then it's referring to the 12-hour daylight portion. In this way, any portion of the 12-hour daylight period counts as the full 12-hour daylight period. Also, any portion of the 12-hour nighttime period will also count as the full 12-hour nighttime period.

If in counting one is referring to the number of days that precede or follow an event, then it is usually the 24-hour period of both nighttime and daylight. In this way, any portion of the 24-hour period counts as the full 24-hour period.

Relative to the earth, the rotation of the earth appears as the revolution of the sun around the earth. This nearly circular pattern when stretched over time appears on a graph as a sine wave such that the positive amplitude represents the time that the sun is overhead, and the negative amplitude represents the time when the sun is on the other side of the earth from us and we're experiencing nighttime.

In your statement, "How many times is it written He would rise, 'the third DAY,' never '~on the third night~'!" I hope you can see that this is the 24-hour period known as a "day," not just the daylight portion!

[Fidei Defensor]

He was crucified on Friday. What you need to know is a Jewish day begins at sundown/sunset not at sunrise, so the Sabbath ends Saturday sundown not Sunday morning or at midnight. So for a Jew, when Jesus was crucified will depend on if it was before sundown or after on the same day. The Romans record days more like we do today. We know Jesus had died by sundown, “Now it was the day of Preparation,and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down.32 The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other. 33 But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. 34 Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus’ side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water.” (John 19:31-34). 

When it says Jesus died and rose on the third day, it could be Jewish days in that on sundown (third sundown) or according to the Roman calander of days or both. Either way Jesus fulfilled the prophecies and as the God Man died for our sins and rose from the dead, “For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, hat he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.”(1 Corinthians 15:3-4). That is what matters most, that Christ has saved us. 

A case can be made for both timelines, Jewish sunset days or Roman sunrise days. I believe Jesus filufilled both. He rose from dead at an hour long before Mary, John, and Peter went to the tomb during the day (John 20), and yet appeared to them during the day (John 20). God often covers both bases, He said John Baptized was Elijah (Matthew 11:12-14), and He appeared with Elijah and Moses (Matthew 17:1-11), He had His lineage of the flesh (Romans 1:1) from Abraham and David both on His mother’s side and father’s sides (Matthew 1:1-23, Luke 3:23-38) which Jews throughout the ages have changed which is important, that you are Jew from your Father or mother’s side (currently it’s the mother.) 

[Retrobyter]

8 hours ago, Da Puppers said:

Concerning the "eight" days of the feast,  not one scripture that you provided shows the Passover to be on the day before,  the 14th, day of that month.   Leviticus 23 should settle the matter.   Look at this: 

*[[Lev 23:27]] KJV* Also on the TENTH day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

*[[Lev 23:28]] KJV* And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.

So here we see thee two verses plainly declare that the day of atonement,  is declared to be a Sabbath of rest on the same day.   Now look what it says just 4 verses later: 

*[[Lev 23:32]] KJV* It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the NINTH DAY of the month AT EVEN , from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.

There should be absolutely no question that this passage is equating them to be one and the same day,  but identified in different manners.  Now, 

*[[Lev 23:5]] KJV* In the FOURTEENTH DAY of the first month AT  EVEN  is the LORD'S passover.

SO,  if the 9th day at even,  is same as the 10th day of the month,  [we are still in Lev 23], then the 14th day at even,  IS THE SAME as the 15th day of the month.   The LORD has set aside 3 most holy days to be celebrated unto the Lord as holy convocations:

PASSOVER:  *[[Lev 23:7]] KJV* In the first day [of the feast of unleavened bread] ye shall have an HOLY  CONVOCATION : ye shall do no servile work therein.

PENTECOST:  *[[Lev 23:21]] KJV* And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an HOLY CONVOCATION  unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

ATONEMENT:  *[[Lev 23:27]] KJV* Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an HOLY CONVOCATION  unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

 A holy convocation is a gathering of the people together unto the Lord,  thus the declaration that all three days  are set aside and work is strictly forbidden.   

Blessings

The PuP 

Shalom, Da Puppers.

Yes, that's what I've been saying! The day of preparation (the day PRIOR to the "holiday" = "holy day") was the day on which work could still be done in preparation FOR the holiday! THAT was the time when the sacrifices/slaughters could be made, and THAT was when the Messiah was crucified as "haKeves Elohiym," "the Lamb of God." (A "keves," pronounced "keh'-ves," was a lamb of 1 year old; in other words, it was a sheep or a goat that had just entered adulthood.)

In each occurrence of Leviticus 23, the "(x - 1)th day at even" is just prior to the beginning of the "xth" day on which the holiday would occur, and Mosheh (Moses) was teaching the children of Israel that they were to start the holiday just prior to the day on which the holiday was declared. That way, they would give the ENTIRE day to the holiday itself. No last-minute stuff was to be carried over into the actual time the holiday was to be observed.

So, you're right, but you just need to know WHY you were right, and you need to know TO WHAT EXTENT you were right.

(Sorry for the allusion to math; you're dealing with a mathematician at heart.)

[Retrobyter]

4 hours ago, Fidei Defensor said:

He was crucified on Friday. What you need to know is a Jewish day begins at sundown/sunset not at sunrise, so the Sabbath ends Saturday sundown not Sunday morning or at midnight. So for a Jew, when Jesus was crucified will depend on if it was before sundown or after on the same day. The Romans record days more like we do today. We know Jesus had died by sundown, “Now it was the day of Preparation,and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down.32 The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other. 33 But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. 34 Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus’ side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water.” (John 19:31-34). 

When it says Jesus died and rose on the third day, it could be Jewish days in that on sundown (third sundown) or according to the Roman calander of days or both. Either way Jesus fulfilled the prophecies and as the God Man died for our sins and rose from the dead, “For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, hat he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.”(1 Corinthians 15:3-4). That is what matters most, that Christ has saved us. 

A case can be made for both timelines, Jewish sunset days or Roman sunrise days. I believe Jesus filufilled both. He rose from dead at an hour long before Mary, John, and Peter went to the tomb during the day (John 20), and yet appeared to them during the day (John 20). God often covers both bases, He said John Baptized was Elijah (Matthew 11:12-14), and He appeared with Elijah and Moses (Matthew 17:1-11), He had His lineage of the flesh (Romans 1:1) from Abraham and David both on His mother’s side and father’s sides (Matthew 1:1-23, Luke 3:23-38) which Jews throughout the ages have changed which is important, that you are Jew from your Father or mother’s side (currently it’s the mother.) 

Shalom, Fidei Defensor.

If we believe what Yeshua` (Jesus) said in Matthew 12:40, then He could not possibly have died on a Friday.

Matthew 12:38-41 (KJV)

38 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. 39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas ("Jonah" or Yonah Hellenized in transliteration): 40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.

I DO know that the "Jewish day begins at sundown/sunset." This comes from Genesis 1:

Genesis 1:5, 8, 13, 19, 23, 31, 2:1-3 (KJV)

5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
...
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
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13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
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19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
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23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
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31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested (Hebrew: shaaVat, from which we get the name for the seventh day, "Shabbat" or "Sabbath") from all his work which God created and made.

Specifically, it begins with the sighting of the first three visible stars.

"Three days and three nights" is NOT just an "idiom" for 3 24-hour days, because the "idiom" would be backward thinking for a Jew! We just finished saying that they begin a day at sundown, so why would Yeshua` make a special point of saying "three DAYS" and THEN add "and three NIGHTS?" He logically should have said, "three nights and three days," if that's a sensible "idiom" to a Jew! No, the ORDER is important in the message Yeshua` was attempting to convey! Just as Yonah was thrown overboard and immediately swallowed by a whale of a fish during the day, Yeshua` also died during the day. In fact, He died shortly after the ninth hour of the day (approximately 3:00 PM) and had to be interred BEFORE sundown, BEFORE the sighting of the first three visible stars. No work was to be done on the Shabbat, and that included the work of moving Yeshua`s body, wrapping it in the linen shroud, laying it in the tomb, and rolling the stone door in front of the sepulcher doorway.

Now, it's also important to understand what is meant by a "special Sabbath." It was NOT that the weekly Sabbath was special that week; it was that there was an ADDITIONAL, special "Sabbath" that week! Remember: The word "Shabbat" (written as "Sabbath") comes from the Hebrew word "shaaVat" which means "he had rested." It is primarily a DAY OF REST! So, when the Pesach (Passover) holiday came that week, they were also to REST on that day, as per Leviticus 23:5-7; NO WORK WAS TO BE DONE!!

By simply counting backward from the evening of the first day of the week (Saturday/Sunday night), we can deduce when Yeshua` died:

Saturday/Sunday night = 3rd night
Saturday day = 3rd day
Friday/Saturday night = 2nd night
Friday day = 2nd day
Thursday/Friday night = 1st night
Thursday day = 1st day

And, since in Jewish timekeeping, any part of a day is considered the whole day, and any part of a night is considered the whole night, then Yeshua` had to die on Thursday, NOT Friday! This also implies that Friday was the "special Shabbat or Sabbath"; that is, the Passover holiday fell on a Friday that year (beginning Thursday evening at sundown)! This can also give us a clue as to the YEAR that this could happen, which I will not pursue in this post.

[Retrobyter]

21 minutes ago, Da Puppers said:

No problem with the math.  Took 45 hours of math in college, 30 odd years ago. 

But I must report to you that it is an exercise in futility.   The Jonah sign of 3 days, 3 nights,  is mentioned only in Matthew for a reason.   It has absolutely nothing to do with his resurrection.   It is an unfulfilled prophecy. 

A sign is something that God gives,  and by believing,  YOU confirm something from God is true.   The sign is to an evil generation,  a future evil generation: 

*[[Mat 12:39]] KJV* But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:*40* For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

The heart of the earth is Jerusalem: 

*[[Eze 5:5]] KJV* Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.

The Jonah sign that Matthew tells us about will find its fulfilment here: 

*[[Mat 24:30]] KJV* And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

A detailed account of the signs fulfilment is found in Rev 12 of the travailing woman IN HEAVEN: 

*[[Rev 12:1]] KJV* And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:

The Greek word for wonder is G4592, semeion, which is translated most predominantly as "sign" and often as "miracle".  The sign,  is seen IN HEAVEN,  and is a testimony that the Jews will eventually believe,  The ONLY ONE,  that Jesus is the son of man.   You know as well as I do that the Jews DID NOT,  HAVE NOT,  and WILL NOT believe until they say "blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord".  And lest you think that he is referring to the 2nd advent:

*[[Mat 24:30]] KJV* And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

Compare that to: 

*[[Rev 1:7]] KJV* Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds [TRIBES]  of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

WHEN Jesus appears at the rapture,  the whole world, tribes of Israel included, will witness the event.   I won't say any more about it,  because I don't think you believe what I just showed you. 

Blessings

The PuP 

Shalom, PuP.

Sorry, too much allegorical thinking for me. I'm a literalist from the word "Go." I believe those who give allegorical answers do the Christian community a GREAT disservice. "Nuff said."

[gerhard eber]

22 hours ago, Retrobyter said:

So, there's plenty of Scriptures.

Plenty of Scriptures about what?

I have said, 'There are eight days of 'passover'. I have not said there were eight days of unleavened bread.

In your Scriptures there are eight instances it says "seven days". If all of them have to do with the feast called Unleavened Bread, all of them say seven days; not one says eight days.

So, What's this, big man, '~ACTUALLY, there are SEVEN days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread and SOMETIMESit extends to eight!

"ZERO Scripture"?~' ... Scripture or YOU QUOTED ?!

Edited August 6, 2018 by gerhard eber

[gerhard eber]

22 hours ago, Retrobyter said:

The Day of Preparation is the 14th of Nissan (Aviv) in which the sacrifices are made for the meal to follow that evening, at the beginning of the 15th of Nissan.

Correct.

But wrong if you disregard '~The Day of Preparation is the 14th of Nissan (Aviv) in which the sacrifices are made~' for being not passover and disregard the work of preparing through sacrifice as not being "keeping passover", INDEED "THE HEAD-FIRST DAY ye shall..." do three things, four in fact, more in fact, but three MAIN things,

1) REMOVE LEAVEN (That Night);

2) REAP / CUT / LIFT the first sheaf from the harvested "corners of your land" and "bring it to the priest" early in the morning;

3) "KILL the passover" "mid-afternoon" and smear the blood on the lintel of your door before you enter your house for the night.

[gerhard eber]

22 hours ago, Retrobyter said:

Regarding the "third day" nonsense you've spouted, you've got to understand that sometimes a "day" refers to the whole 24-hour period and sometimes it refers to the daylight portion of the 24-hour period which usually lasts for 12 hours at the equinoxes.

Please don't waste my time with ANY extra-Biblical wisdom or science or whatever '~spouted nonsense~'.

Please don't waste my time with ANY '~24-hour period 'portions'~'; all that interests me are the "three days" of Jesus' "passover-suffering" and Triumph AS DEFINED  at least one dozen times in GOD'S WORD'S,

"This That Selfsame Whole-Day BONE-DAY" of "the fourteenth day of the First Month", 

"This That Selfsame Whole-Day BONE-DAY" of "the fifteenth day of the First Month" 

"This That Selfsame Whole-Day BONE-DAY" of "the sixteenth day of the First Month"

 

[gerhard eber]

23 hours ago, Retrobyter said:

"at even" means "in the evening" which is at the BEGINNING of a 24-hour period in Hebrew timekeeping, for the Hebrew day begins at sundown with the sighting of the first three stars!

Where's the SCRIPTURE for your and the Jews' '~sighting of the first three stars~'! more '~spouted nonsense~'!