Gen 1:5
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
KJV
Gen 1:8
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
KJV
In Jewish reckoning of time a day begins and ends at sunset.
The Passover is the 14th of Abib. Its evening comes before its morning.
The first day of unleavened bread is the 15th of Abib.
Lev 23:4-7
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.
KJV
The 15th of Abib is a Levitical Sabbath Jesus could NOT have been killed on the Sabbath.
John 19:31
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.
KJV
The Thursday crucifixion scenario is the only one in which 2 Sabbaths back to back come before Sunday.
It is also the only scenario in which a Sunday resurrection occurs on the third day.
If Jesus were crucified on Friday, then: Friday night and Saturday are 1 day, and Saturday night and Sunday are the second day. Even if you count the time before sundown Friday as a day, you can't find a third night!
Matt 12:40
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.
KJV
Luke 24:7
7 Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.
KJV
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
KJV
Gen 1:8
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
KJV
In Jewish reckoning of time a day begins and ends at sunset.
The Passover is the 14th of Abib. Its evening comes before its morning.
The first day of unleavened bread is the 15th of Abib.
Lev 23:4-7
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.
KJV
The 15th of Abib is a Levitical Sabbath Jesus could NOT have been killed on the Sabbath.
John 19:31
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.
KJV
The Thursday crucifixion scenario is the only one in which 2 Sabbaths back to back come before Sunday.
It is also the only scenario in which a Sunday resurrection occurs on the third day.
If Jesus were crucified on Friday, then: Friday night and Saturday are 1 day, and Saturday night and Sunday are the second day. Even if you count the time before sundown Friday as a day, you can't find a third night!
Matt 12:40
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.
KJV
Luke 24:7
7 Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.
KJV