GINOLJC, to all.
first thanks for the reply, second, the Holy Spirit inside of you confirmed that the day is 24hrs? correct. what did the Lord Jesus say? who suppose to be inside you. but before you answer hear him again, John 11:9 "Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world". now if the Holy Spirit is telling you one thing and the Lord Jesus is saying another, then I question what "spirit" is confirming this in you. for I know that the Holy Spirit is the Lord Jesus himself and he is not divided nor confused.
so when I hear these types of statement I'll leave you to Revelation 22:11 for now.
PICJAG.
Jesus was right! At the time He said it the hours of daylight between dawn and dusk would have been 12 hours. The context was about the ability to work while it was light and when the darkness comes (ie: the 12 hours between dusk and dawn) no one can work.
Of course we have artificial light that enables us to work and do things well into the night hours that First Century people didn't have.
So, if we are talking about the daylight hours, we can say a day consists of 12 hours, but if we are talking about a full day we have to include the night hours as well. I think that the gospel writers knew that there might have been a confusion about the definition of a 'day' so when Jesus died, they said that he was "three days and three nights" in the tomb - that made it three 24 hour days. (Let's not go down the rabbit hole of whether it was all of three whole days. That's a debate for another thread).
It is interesting that in Genesis 1 it talks of "evening and morning" of the next day. What do you make of that? Why not "morning and evening" if it was to be 12 hour days? If you put the "evenings and mornings" together in sequence, we get evening and morning (1), to evening and morning (2), to evening and morning (3), and so on. This shows that the sequence is actually evening to evening each day, which is 24 hours. If if "morning to evening" is used, we still get a 24hr period between the morning of one day to the morning of the next.
Just sayin'!