Mt.12:40 - Three days and three nights

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The gospels reveal there were multiple trips made at different times to the tomb.

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On 2/8/2021 at 3:11 PM, Justin Adams said:

Sorry but I do. Yet as I said. I do not wish to comment further. The information is readily available. It took me just a few years to finally figure it all out - on my own with nothing but Young's Literal. Then I started the research and it took another five years to understand it all. It is up to you if you wish to study it for yourself.

We have all the texts, Tanakh and NT and much in the way of translational tools as well. If I can do it, anyone can.

I know this is 3 years old... but I appreciate your posts, and agree. The significance of Jesus being crucified "in the midst of the week" has prophetic significance.

"...another key truth that aids in rightly interpreting Daniel 9:27 where is states “and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease.”  Not only was this in the midst of the millennial week on during the fourth millennial day when Jesus Christ was born, or the seven-year week which at the end of three and a half years when He died and raised again, but also on the fourth day of the seven-day week when He was crucified.  

For centuries there has been much confusion when people try to reason the differences in the accounts of Jesus’ resurrection as recorded in the four Gospels. Certainly, the fact that they all tell unique perspectives of the resurrection and various events doesn’t help. Perhaps, a good way to consider their seemingly different reports is to view them like transparent overlays, similar to the ones we have seen in books showing the human skeleton, then the nerves and blood vessels, organs, muscular details and finally the skin and hair.  

Similarly, the Gospels each have their place in reporting the different events which occurred around the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The fact that these different events, which at times may seem contradictory, are recorded in God’s word verifies their accuracy. Therefore, the logical answer to the confusion is to recognize that there were multiple trips being made to the tomb, each being recorded in their own Gospel account.  

The best way to determine the possible order of these trips to the tomb is to consider the different details that have been given about the time of day and light of the sun. Was the sun going down or coming up? These questions are actually quite easy to answer. However, we must remember that the Sabbath, like all the other biblical days, began and ended with sundown. "

 

Here's an article I once wrote called "Trips to the Tomb" 
 and a chart I created - 

Edited June 6, 2024 by BlindSeeker

[Your closest friendnt]

5 hours ago, BlindSeeker said:

I know this is 3 years old... but I appreciate your posts, and agree. The significance of Jesus being crucified "in the midst of the week" has prophetic significance.

"...another key truth that aids in rightly interpreting Daniel 9:27 where is states “and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease.”  Not only was this in the midst of the millennial week on during the fourth millennial day when Jesus Christ was born, or the seven-year week which at the end of three and a half years when He died and raised again, but also on the fourth day of the seven-day week when He was crucified.  

For centuries there has been much confusion when people try to reason the differences in the accounts of Jesus’ resurrection as recorded in the four Gospels. Certainly, the fact that they all tell unique perspectives of the resurrection and various events doesn’t help. Perhaps, a good way to consider their seemingly different reports is to view them like transparent overlays, similar to the ones we have seen in books showing the human skeleton, then the nerves and blood vessels, organs, muscular details and finally the skin and hair.  

Similarly, the Gospels each have their place in reporting the different events which occurred around the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The fact that these different events, which at times may seem contradictory, are recorded in God’s word verifies their accuracy. Therefore, the logical answer to the confusion is to recognize that there were multiple trips being made to the tomb, each being recorded in their own Gospel account.  

The best way to determine the possible order of these trips to the tomb is to consider the different details that have been given about the time of day and light of the sun. Was the sun going down or coming up? These questions are actually quite easy to answer. However, we must remember that the Sabbath, like all the other biblical days, began and ended with sundown. "

 

Here's an article I once wrote called "Trips to the Tomb" 
 and a chart I created - 

 Please say what day Jesus was raised from the dead. 

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3 hours ago, Your closest friendnt said:

 Please say what day Jesus was raised from the dead. 

Scripture tells when. Matthew 28:1

When do say He rose from the dead?

Edited June 7, 2024 by BlindSeeker
added an after thought..

[BlindSeeker]

IN THE END of the weekly sabbath, at dusk, as the 1st day of the week drew on at sunset.

Luke 23:54 - And that day was [Passover] the preparation, and the [high] sabbath [day one of the Feast of Unleaven Bread – Lev 23:5-7] drew on <epiphosko>.

Matthew 28:1 - In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn <epiphosko> towards [not there yet though] the first day of the week…

 

The week and the following one Jesus was crucified had a total of 4 sabbaths, 2 weekly 7th day sabbaths, and 2 high sabbaths, day 1 &7 of the Feasts of Unleaven Bread.

 

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5 hours ago, BlindSeeker said:

IN THE END of the weekly sabbath, at dusk, as the 1st day of the week drew on at sunset.

Luke 23:54 - And that day was [Passover] the preparation, and the [high] sabbath [day one of the Feast of Unleaven Bread – Lev 23:5-7] drew on <epiphosko>.

Matthew 28:1 - In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn <epiphosko> towards [not there yet though] the first day of the week…

 

The week and the following one Jesus was crucified had a total of 4 sabbaths, 2 weekly 7th day sabbaths, and 2 high sabbaths, day 1 &7 of the Feasts of Unleaven Bread.

 

Jesus was raised the third day. The first day after the Sabath Day that day and the Sabath Day it makes it two days. Is it too difficult to figure out the third day in reverse counting. All calendars point to Friday. 

Jesus was raised on the first fruits offering, according to the scriptures the 1st day of the week after the High Sabbath which is the 1st day of the feast of the Unleavened Bread. And the feast of the Unleavened Bread imediatly follows the Passover day always. From 14th to 15th. This is why the feast of the Passover day is always the preparation day for the High Sabbath the first day of the Unleavened Bread Holidays. The Passover feast day is not a High Sabbath. It's a feast day to slaughter and cook and feast on the Passover lamb. 

Jesus is our Passover Land, this is why Jesus said that you must eat my flesh and drink my blood.

The Passover lamb was chosen on the 10th of the month Nisan and it was taken care till the 14th the day the Passover lamb had to be killed never before. Figure this one out when Jesus ate the Passover dinner and when he died. 

Edited June 7, 2024 by Your closest friendnt

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4 hours ago, Your closest friendnt said:

Jesus was raised the third day.

Jesus did not say He would be in the tomb for “three days,” rather He specifically said it would be “three days and three nights,” equal to the sign of Jonah in the belly of the fish.

Matthew clearly states the first trip was in the “end of the Sabbath as it began to ‘dawn’ towards the first day of the week,” which as I stated earlier is dusk, not sunrise. Dawn here means the actual beginning of the first day of the week, sunset and not sunrise, for sunrise would in fact actually have occurred in the middle of a biblical day. This “dawn” being like the “dawning of the Age of Aquarius,” of which there was no sunrise ushering in. 

Furthermore, the scriptures plainly tell us it was after the Sabbath that the women purchase the spices, which as I stated earlier John 19:31 reveals was actually a high day. What that means is that Sabbath was not the seventh day of the week Sabbath, rather the first day of the seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread, which began on the 15th day of the first month after Passover, the 14th day of the month which still function as a normal workday. But during the Feast of Unleavened Bread, both the start day (the 15th) and the end day (the 21st) are both high Sabbath days, which would naturally mean a normal weekly Sabbath would always fall somewhere in between those two high day Sabbaths, and again, means there would be 4 Sabbaths occurring in a 2-week time window. 

Therefore, the scriptures accurately state that after the high day Sabbath which immediately followed Passover, that the women went and bought the spices and spent the remainder of that day, preparing them. Afterwards, on the following day, they then “rested according to the [Fourth] Commandment” which would be the weekly Sabbath. Thus, Friday is indeed the day between this high Sabbath and the weekly Sabbath.

According to Matthew it was “in the end” of this weekly Sabbath, as the sunset was about to usher in the first day of the week, that the women went to “visit the tomb,” without any mention being made of their taking the spices since night was falling, as this late in the day there would not have been enough time to “properly prepare” the body of Jesus. It is then that the angel of the Lord descended like lightning and the stone was rolled away and the angelic proclamation made “He has risen.”  

So, to briefly go through the days and events again, Jesus, having been crucified on Passover the 14th day, was then placed into the tomb just before sunset as it “dawn toward” the “high day” Sabbath on the 15th day. Now remember, according to biblical reckoning the beginning and end of every day occurs with the setting of the sun. This means that of the 2 increments of a biblical day, “night” and “day,” that the first segment is the night. So, 3 nights and 3 days would be ordered such as Jesus was hastily placed in the tomb as the high Sabbath drew on. Therefore, the starting segment would be first the night and then day, then the 2nd night and 2nd day, and finally the 3rd night and 3rd day, which with the weekly Sabbath ending would be the beginning of a 4th night. This is the time being referenced by Matthew.

So, after the 15th day, which would be starting at the end of the crucifixion day, the first high day sabbath, the beginning Unleavened Bread. The next day, Friday, the 16th day, the women then went and purchased the spices since they would be (lawfully) permitted to prepare them on that day. After which, they then rested the 17th day, Saturday, “according to the 4th commandment,” which would now be the weekly Sabbath. It was then that the resurrection of Jesus occurred, in the end of the Sabbath day, day 17, as the sun was setting – and yet still just prior to the 18th day, Sunday, which would in fact be as Matthew said, “the dawning of the 1st day of the week.” 

It was then, after Jesus’ resurrection, that the soldiers went and told the priests, and they all met franticly throughout the rest of the night forging the lie that the disciples had come during the night and stolen Jesus’ body… for come sunrise, everyone in Jerusalem was going to hear that the body of Jesus was missing.  

According to the sign of Jonah, Jesus was literally three nights and three days in the tomb; just like He said He would be. Night and day of the 15th day of the month, night and day of the 16th day of the month, and night and day of the 17th day of the month; making it in the end of the weekly Sabbath when He rose just before sunset. Sorry for the redundancy, but again, as I mentioned in an earlier post, all this means Jesus was crucified “in the midst of the week” on a Wednesday, and not on Friday according to the Catholic invention of Good Friday. 

Jonah 1:17 - Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
 Matt 12:40 - 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.
 

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■ In each Jewish day the dawn of the day takes place about 11 hours after the day began at sunset. In the spring season. And then within 30 minutes the sun rises. 

In each day in spring we first have the night from sunset to sunrise. This is the first part of each day that includes the night. The second part of each day it has no night at all. It is only daytime. From sunrise to sunset. 

 ■  The dawn of a new day.

(idiomatic) A new beginning; a fresh start; an important, promising turning point. synonym ▲quotations ▼ Synonym: new dawn.

https://en.wiktionary.org › wiki

dawn of a new day - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

■ What is considered dawn of the day?

Dawn is the time of morning when the Sun is 6° below the horizon.

Respectively, dusk occurs when the Sun is 6° below the horizon in the evening. Sunrise is the time when the first part of the Sun becomes visible in the morning at a given location.Feb 4, 2010

Edited June 8, 2024 by Your closest friendnt

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In the passage bellow the chief priests went to Pilate on the High Sabbath because it says "the next day that followed the day of preparation. The day of preparation for the High Day the 15th is

(the First Day of the Unleavened Bread Holidays)

always the 14th which is the day of the Passover. 

That year the 15th of Nisan it fall on the seven day of the week. The Sabbath day. 

 ■ Mathew 17:62-63  

62 Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,

63 Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.

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Matthew 28:1 - In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn <epiphosko> towards [not there yet though] the first day of the week…

The beginning of the dawn just 30 minutes before sunrise for every day including the first day of the week, which it is the first day after the Sabath. Which happened that year to also be the first day of the Unleavened Bread Holidays, a High Day.

The dawn it happens 11 hours into the day from 6;00 at sunset the beginning of the new day and after 11 hours into the day,  the night time of each the day. Which is the first part of each new day. Each day starts with the night of the day from 6:00 pm to midnight to the dawn of the day, 30 minutes before sunrise. 

Edited June 8, 2024 by Your closest friendnt