Friday is the day of crucifixion in the NT - until you can show conclusively that the simple **combined** testimony of the Scriptures is otherwise, you are making Scripture yield what you want it to teach.
“In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week,
came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre” (Matthew 28:1).
The King James, along with just about every other Bible version, translates
the first part of this verse, “In the end of the sabbath” or “after the sabbath.”
But if you study the Greek text, you learn that the word for sabbath is
actually plural! “After the sabbaths,” it should read.
Jesus crucified on a Wednesday afternoon and buried later that evening,
before sunset. The next day, Thursday, was an annual sabbath. The day
after that, was preparation day for the regular weekly Sabbath.
The reason Matthew refers to sabbaths, plural, is because there were
two sabbaths that week! When Matthew says Mary came early Sunday morning,
before dawn, after one of the sabbaths, he is referring to the weekly Sabbath.
There is one more sequence of events that provides additional support for
the 72-hour time frame and the fact that there were two “sabbaths” this week.
Mark 16:1 says Mary Magdalene and her companions bought spices
“when the sabbath was past.” They were planning to prepare these
ointments and spices so that they might anoint the body of Jesus.
Yet Luke 23:56 says they prepared these spices and then rested on
the weekly Sabbath day. Compare these two texts carefully.
Christ inspired four different Gospel accounts to be written so that all the
important details of His life might be canonized. Mark said these women
bought the spices after the sabbath was past. Luke said they prepared
the spices before the Sabbath arrived.
Those who hold to the Good Friday-Easter belief must conclude that these
verses are a glaring contradiction. They are not! They complement each
other perfectly, if you understand that there were two sabbaths that week.
The women bought the spices on Friday, after the annual sabbath on Thursday.
They prepared the spices that same day, before the weekly Sabbath,
and then rested on the Sabbath according to God’s command.
When Mary approached the tomb early Sunday morning, [before sunrise],
an angel nearby exclaimed, “He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come,
see the place where the Lord lay” (Matthew 28:6).
There were no eyewitnesses to Christ’s resurrection,
and there is only one historical record: the Holy Bible.
Christ’s proof of His messiahship was singular:
the length of time He would be in the ground.
Friday is [not]the day of crucifixion in the NT,
the **combined** testimony of the Scriptures says there was 2 Sabbaths that week.