I'm curious... on what day do you guys and gals think that the crucifixion took place?
I've always thought it was on Friday, but recent reading and contemplation makes me wonder if it was actually Thursday?
Is there any concrete evidence when the Passover Sabbath was, in the year he was crucified?
And... for the record, to me this is NOT a salvation issue... to me, the salvation issue is THAT he was crucified, and rose again.
Passover is not a Sabbath. The next day, the First Day of Unleavened Bread is.
As far as when Christ was crucified, It was on Wednesday. He was in the tomb three days and three nights...
Mat 12:38 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from You."
Mat 12:39 But He answered and said to them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
Mat 12:40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
How long is a day? 24 hours...
Joh 11:9 Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
Joh 11:10 But if one walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."
12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night. Days run from sunset to sunset. We read that in the creation account in Genesis 1. We also read that in Lev 23...
Lev 23:32 It shall be to you a sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict your souls; on the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall celebrate your sabbath."
Now back to Mat 12, if Christ was not in the tomb three days and three nights, then He did not fulfill the ONLY sign He said He would give.
Buried at sunset on Wednesday afternoon, resurrected at sunset on Sabbath afternoon and when the ladies came to the tomb early Sunday morning, before daylight, He was already gone...
Joh 20:1 Now the first day of the week Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.
Joh 20:2 Then she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him."
Still dark and He was not there. He had been resurrected on Sabbath afternoon at sunset (three days and three nights in the tomb) exactly as He said He would be.