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Davidstarr said:
I do enjoy your posts. And (most times) I agree with you.

However here I don't believe Jesus was crucified on a Friday.
The numbers just don't add up.
Even if you go with the unbiblical premise that a small portion of a day (or a night) could be considered to be a full day (or night) you still come up short one day and one night.

Jesus said in 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."

So 3 days and 3 nights must be accounted for from time He was buried to the time He was resurrected.
Take a look at it:

Friday day (even if it was still an hour or 2 before sunset?) - 1 day
Friday night - 1 night
Saturday day - 2nd day
Saturday night - 2nd night

It wasn't even sunrise yet when the women (with the spices and ointments) came to the sepulcher to find out the tomb was already open. Jesus had already been raised.

So where is the 3rd day and night?

I know this is off topic from the OP but I can expound on this more if you wish. Just let me know.
It will make for a longer post than this one.
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It is okay... this subject has been debated for a long time.

But I'll say it like this...

Day 1 = Friday.
Day 2 = sabbath
Day 3 = Sunday.

"three days and three nights" is a Hebrew idiom where a part of a day is counted as a whole day. This rule is applied in both biblical and business transactions.

Command therefore that the sepulcher be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say to the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.— Matthew 27:64

The timing of these events perfectly matches the Jewish sanctuary types
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The Passover Lamb: As the antitype of the Passover lamb, Christ was sacrificed on the 14th day of the first month at 3 P.M., the exact time the lamb was to be slain Exodus 12:6

The Wave Sheaf.... The wave sheaf of first fruits was offered on the morrow after the Sabbath, which was the 16th day of the month Leviticus 23:11. In perfect fulfillment, Jesus rose on that very day as the "first fruits of them that slept" 1 Corinthians 15:20.

Attempting to require exactly seventy-two hours would contradict the many passages stating He rose on the third day.

No matter which days you put 72 hours is impossible... He did late in the afternoon. And rose early in the morning.

It isn't really savational.. We agree mostly
 
JohnDB said:
NOT what it said.....
You are going BEYOND WHAT IS WRITTEN.
Thats crap Satan would do and has done.

"LOVE IS THE FULLFILLMENT OF THE LAW"
that's what it says.....that's all it says. Nothing more.

Why you trying to add to God's word as if you are God...
You are not.
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Jas 2:8-12
8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: 9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. 10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. 11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. 12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

Psa 119:163-165
163 I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love. 164 Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments. 165 Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

1Jn 5:2-3
2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

2Jn 1:6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
 
Knowing that a testament or will or covenant can not be changed or altered after the death of the testator.

When did Jesus enforce Sunday or remove the 4th commandment?
 
Dan 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
 
TMS said:
Dan 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
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In the midst of the week, Jesus was stained, correct?
What happened after midst of the week? Regarding below.
Dan 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:
 
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