It is pretty easy to count.
1, 2, 3.
Friday = 1 day
Saturday = 2 days
Sunday = 3 days.
Putting a western spin on things and saying it has to be 72 hours is a false reading of scripture and importing things into the scripture that isn't there.
But I'm very glad that you clearly understand that Jesus rose on Sunday morning, and that is the time we remember and celebrate Jesus' rising.
1, 2, 3.
Friday = 1 day
Saturday = 2 days
Sunday = 3 days.
Putting a western spin on things and saying it has to be 72 hours is a false reading of scripture and importing things into the scripture that isn't there.
But I'm very glad that you clearly understand that Jesus rose on Sunday morning, and that is the time we remember and celebrate Jesus' rising.
Mat 12:39 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:
Mat 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.
So we need three days and three nights. How long is the daylight portion of a day...
Joh 11:9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
Joh 11:10 But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
Here Christ makes a distinction between day and night and says that the daylight portion of a day is 12 hours. so the authority says there is 12 hours in the day. Now if an evening and a morning is a day...
Gen 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
how long is the night portion? It doesn't take a mathematician to determine there are twelve hours in the night.
So, let's see how your count works out.
Christ was laid in the tomb at/about sunset. If He were buried on Friday then we have...
Friday night - 1 night 12 hours
Saturday day - 1 day 12 hours
Saturday night - 1 night 12 hours
and He arose sometime BEFORE sunrise...
Joh 20:1 The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
Joh 20:2 Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.
So we have 2 nights and 1 day equaling 36 hours. What was it Christ said again? Oh yeah...
Mat 12:39 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:
Mat 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.
Now the truth of the matter is that Christ was crucified on Wednesday (the Passover, 31AD) buried at sunset...
Wednesday night = 1 night 12 hours
Thursday day = 1 day 12 hours
Thursday night = 1 night 12 hours
Friday day = 1 day 12 hours
Friday night = 1 night 12 hours
Saturday day = 1 day 12 hours
And He was resurrected at/about sunset on Saturday, the weekly Sabbath. You do know there was a weekly Sabbath and an annual Sabbath (the First Day of Unleavened Bread) involved in this count don't you?
Joh 19:31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
The weekly Sabbath is not a high day...
an high day. It was the first day of the Feast, the 15th Nisan. See Lev_23:6, Lev_23:7. Our Wednesday sunset to Thursday sunset. See App-156. - E.W. Bullinger
So now we see three days and three nights with a burial at sunset on Wednesday and a resurrection at sunset on Saturday. We also see 72 hours.
Now about that three days and three nights from Friday sunset to before dawn on Sunday morning, you don't have a job that requires you to make change for customers, do you?