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Was Jesus crucified on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday?
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, 2 “This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year. 3 Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day (Tuesday) of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household. 4 If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat. 5 The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. 6 Take care of them until the fourteenth day (Three days later which is Thursday evening) of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.
They had roasted Jesus all night before the rooster crows in the morning. So Friday evening or the beginning of Saturday, He had died and was buried.
"Then the Jews, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away." Jn. 19:31
Saturday 10th (Day)
(Saturday Sabbath) This was when the Passover sacrifice was inspected (i.e. when Christ rode in on a donkey and he went to the Temple). This makes sense because Exodus 12:3 says that this is the day that the Passover was to be inspected. So as Israel rejected their Messiah as their coming King (When he rode in a donkey), Israel desired to kill Him and had accepted Him as a sacrifice instead.
Tuesday 13th (Night)
(Beginning of 14th (Wednesday) - Eve of the Day of Preparation (Passover))
Jesus celebrates the Seudah Mafseket, which literally means Last Supper. This was a Jewish feast celebrating the fast of of the firstborn. The Jews would eat on this night and the firstborn would fast the next day on the Day of Preparation. Jesus was firstborn within his family so he would have fasted. For Jesus is to be the firstborn of the dead (i.e. the Last Adam) (Colossians 1:18). This also was a special New Covenant Celebration, too. For Scripture says, "And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins." Jesus does not eat the Passover for He is to be our Passover during the following daylight hours of that same calendar day.
Wednesday the 14th (Day)
(Day of Preparation continues (Passover))
Jesus is crucified at 3:00PM (ninth hour) and is our Passover Lamb that is sacrificed for us. Christ who knew no sin was made to be sin for us. His innocent blood pays the penalty for our bondage or slavery to sin.
Wednesday 14th (Night)
At sundown of the 14th, the 15th Begins the Passover meal and the eating of unleavened bread). This was the Feast Day of the Passover / Unleavened Bread. This was a Holy Day and no servile work was to be done this day. Why? Because Jesus is the only one who can pay the price for our sins. We cannot work to save ourselves. Only Christ can save us if we allow Him to abide in us (So that He can do the good work thru us). For we are to feed off of Christ. For Christ is the living bread from Heaven; He is not real physical bread, but Christ is spiritual bread because He gives us spiritual life and sustenance.
Thursday 15th (Day)
Passover / Feast of Unleavened Bread - High Holy Sabbath Day. No servile work could be done on this day. Mary could not buy spices to anoint Jesus on this day because it was a High Holy day or High Sabbath.
Friday 16th (Day)
Mary goes out and buys spices and then prepares them all day. Mark 16:1 tells us she did this after the Sabbath. This was not after the Saturday Sabbath but it was after the high holy day Sabbath (i.e. the 15th). Mary couldn't have bought spices early morning on Sunday (After the Saturday Sabbath) because there would have been no time for her to go to the shops to buy spices and the prepare them and still arrive at the tomb when it was yet still dark out (John 20:1).
Saturday 17th (Day)
(Saturday Sabbath) Jesus rises within the closed tomb on the Saturday Sabbath at 3:00PM. For Jesus said He would be in the heart of the Earth for three days and three nights. The heart of the Earth is not the grave because he was not buried in the ground. The heart of the Earth is Abraham's bosom in sheol. For he told the thief on the cross that he would be with Him in that very day in Paradise. Not that evening or the next day or two days later. He told the thief that he would be with him in Paradise that very day. So Jesus' death would then start the clock of Christ being in the heart of the Earth. Jesus' resurrection takes place on a Saturday Sabbath because He is our eternal rest. This is on the 17th day which is significant thru out all of Scripture. In fact, it was the time that Noah's ark had rested on Mount Ararat before the flood waters had completely abated later on. For it was showing that God's judgment had ended and that a new life was about to begin for Noah. Just as Christ's resurrection before He obtained eternal redemption up in Heaven was about to begin a new life for us.
Sunday 18th (Before Sunrise)
Mary discovers the angel and the empty tomb. This takes place on a Sunday, the first day of the week which symbolizes a new start or beginning. Furthermore, Jesus completes his plan of redemption for mankind. For on this day Jesus had ascended to the Father and entered the Holy Temple up in Heaven by His blood and obtained eternal redemption for us. For this is where Jesus became our high priest and mediator between God the Father and us (i.e. mankind).
(Saturday Sabbath) This was when the Passover sacrifice was inspected (i.e. when Christ rode in on a donkey and he went to the Temple). This makes sense because Exodus 12:3 says that this is the day that the Passover was to be inspected. So as Israel rejected their Messiah as their coming King (When he rode in a donkey), Israel desired to kill Him and had accepted Him as a sacrifice instead.
Tuesday 13th (Night)
(Beginning of 14th (Wednesday) - Eve of the Day of Preparation (Passover))
Jesus celebrates the Seudah Mafseket, which literally means Last Supper. This was a Jewish feast celebrating the fast of of the firstborn. The Jews would eat on this night and the firstborn would fast the next day on the Day of Preparation. Jesus was firstborn within his family so he would have fasted. For Jesus is to be the firstborn of the dead (i.e. the Last Adam) (Colossians 1:18). This also was a special New Covenant Celebration, too. For Scripture says, "And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins." Jesus does not eat the Passover for He is to be our Passover during the following daylight hours of that same calendar day.
Wednesday the 14th (Day)
(Day of Preparation continues (Passover))
Jesus is crucified at 3:00PM (ninth hour) and is our Passover Lamb that is sacrificed for us. Christ who knew no sin was made to be sin for us. His innocent blood pays the penalty for our bondage or slavery to sin.
Wednesday 14th (Night)
At sundown of the 14th, the 15th Begins the Passover meal and the eating of unleavened bread). This was the Feast Day of the Passover / Unleavened Bread. This was a Holy Day and no servile work was to be done this day. Why? Because Jesus is the only one who can pay the price for our sins. We cannot work to save ourselves. Only Christ can save us if we allow Him to abide in us (So that He can do the good work thru us). For we are to feed off of Christ. For Christ is the living bread from Heaven; He is not real physical bread, but Christ is spiritual bread because He gives us spiritual life and sustenance.
Thursday 15th (Day)
Passover / Feast of Unleavened Bread - High Holy Sabbath Day. No servile work could be done on this day. Mary could not buy spices to anoint Jesus on this day because it was a High Holy day or High Sabbath.
Friday 16th (Day)
Mary goes out and buys spices and then prepares them all day. Mark 16:1 tells us she did this after the Sabbath. This was not after the Saturday Sabbath but it was after the high holy day Sabbath (i.e. the 15th). Mary couldn't have bought spices early morning on Sunday (After the Saturday Sabbath) because there would have been no time for her to go to the shops to buy spices and the prepare them and still arrive at the tomb when it was yet still dark out (John 20:1).
Saturday 17th (Day)
(Saturday Sabbath) Jesus rises within the closed tomb on the Saturday Sabbath at 3:00PM. For Jesus said He would be in the heart of the Earth for three days and three nights. The heart of the Earth is not the grave because he was not buried in the ground. The heart of the Earth is Abraham's bosom in sheol. For he told the thief on the cross that he would be with Him in that very day in Paradise. Not that evening or the next day or two days later. He told the thief that he would be with him in Paradise that very day. So Jesus' death would then start the clock of Christ being in the heart of the Earth. Jesus' resurrection takes place on a Saturday Sabbath because He is our eternal rest. This is on the 17th day which is significant thru out all of Scripture. In fact, it was the time that Noah's ark had rested on Mount Ararat before the flood waters had completely abated later on. For it was showing that God's judgment had ended and that a new life was about to begin for Noah. Just as Christ's resurrection before He obtained eternal redemption up in Heaven was about to begin a new life for us.
Sunday 18th (Before Sunrise)
Mary discovers the angel and the empty tomb. This takes place on a Sunday, the first day of the week which symbolizes a new start or beginning. Furthermore, Jesus completes his plan of redemption for mankind. For on this day Jesus had ascended to the Father and entered the Holy Temple up in Heaven by His blood and obtained eternal redemption for us. For this is where Jesus became our high priest and mediator between God the Father and us (i.e. mankind).
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The "High Sabbath" was the first Sabbath of the Passover. The Passover always began with a holy convocation on the Sabbath and was followed by seven days of feasting. This in turn was followed by another holy convocation on the Sabbath immediately following the passover. So a "High Sabbath" was the first Sabbath preceding the Passover.
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Did the Sabbath day start at 6pm or midnite?
6:00 P.M. Jewish holidays were governed by Jewish time because this was by divine edict.
1"Now the LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, 2“This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you. 3“Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month they are each one to take a lamb for themselves, according to their fathers’ households, a lamb for each household. 4‘Now if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house are to take one according to the number of persons in them; according to what each man should eat, you are to divide the lamb. 5‘Your lamb shall be an unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. 6‘You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it at twilight. 7‘Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. 8‘They shall eat the flesh that same night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 9‘Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather roasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with its entrails. 10‘And you shall not leave any of it over until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning, you shall burn with fire. 11‘Now you shall eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste—it is the LORD’S Passover. 12‘For I will go through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments—I am the LORD. 13‘The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live; and when I see the blood I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt."
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Did the Sabbath day start at 6pm or midnite?
When the sun goes down it is considered a new day, its start from evening to the next evening.
1 Corinthians 15:46 The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual.
1 Corinthians 15:45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.
Romans 13:12 The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
Luke 22:53 Every day I was with you in the temple courts, and you did not lay a hand on me. But this is your hour—when darkness reigns.”
Ephesians 5:8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light
1 John 2:8 Yet I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in him and in you, because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining.
The specific time in Ex. 12 is not particularly specific. However, in Deuteronomy 16:6 the Lord is very specific. "But at the place where the LORD your God chooses to establish His name, you shall sacrifice the Passover in the evening at sunset, at the time that you came out of Egypt." Remember, the Jewish day began at 6:00 P.M. but this does not necessarily mean that this was the exact time of the beginning of the Passover because as you say, sundown is not always at sundown. Jesus' had to have died before sundown preceeding the Sabbath.
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Please remember that in Jewish tradition, (New Testament and today) any PART of a day is considered a day. So even an hour on Friday is a DAY.
This Sabbath teaching just gets weirder and weirder!
This Sabbath teaching just gets weirder and weirder!
I really don't know, maybe they work the nightshift and or they doesn't want their deeds to be seen, and then they can recuperate from their long busy night before the Master come, but the Master one day will sneak up behind them like a thief and catch them in the act with His flashlight. But I do know that in the beginning that night was here before day, and then God had said," Let there be Light" and which He was actually was referring to, let there be life in this dark, motionless, emptiness.
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Why do the jews start the day at sunset ? Is that biblical ? Is it for the church to day ?
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What day was they referring to ? thanks
[h=1]Luke 24:21King James Version (KJV)[/h]21 But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.
Jesus Christ does not lie. He told the hypocrites they would receive no sign save the sign of Jonah. As Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights so the Son of Man would be in the belly of the earth three days and three nights. The first day does not matter. Days venerated do not matter, but the attitude of the heart soul and mind do matter in the sight of God.
Personally, I cannot say I know with certitude which day He, our Salvation, was crucified, but He was crucified for my sins and the sins of all who come to Him in Spirit and Truth. He fulfilled all the law and Moses; why not begin with that? I did, and so did many others. It is the easies solution, that is, if it does not sound too "Jewish" for some.
Personally, I cannot say I know with certitude which day He, our Salvation, was crucified, but He was crucified for my sins and the sins of all who come to Him in Spirit and Truth. He fulfilled all the law and Moses; why not begin with that? I did, and so did many others. It is the easies solution, that is, if it does not sound too "Jewish" for some.
You don't have a job that requires you to make change, do you? If you can't count to three, how do you make change for a twenty?
EXCELLENT!, the only thing I would say is that His resurrection was probably closer to sunset. He did not say He would be dead for 72 hours, He said He would be in the tomb for 72 hours...
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.
He died at/about 3:00pm and by the time He was actually entombed, it was very close to sunset.