A.T. Robertson on Mark 16:2

GerhardEbersoehn · Sep 5, 2021

A.T. Robertson on Mark 16:2

Quote:When the sun was risen (anateilantos tou h?liou). Genitive absolute, aorist participle, though some manuscripts read anatellontos, present participle. Luke 24:1 has it “at early dawn” (orthrou batheos) and John 20:1 “while it was yet dark.” It was some two miles from Bethany to the tomb. Mark himself gives both notes of time, “very early” (lian pr?i), “when the sun was risen.” Probably they started while it was still dark and the sun was coming up when they arrived at the tomb. All three mention that it was on the first day of the week, our Sunday morning when the women arrive. The body of Jesus was buried late on Friday before the sabbath (our Saturday) which began at sunset. This is made clear as a bell by Luke 23:54 “and the sabbath drew on.” The women rested on the sabbath (Luke 23:56). This visit of the women was in the early morning of our Sunday, the first day of the week. Some people are greatly disturbed over the fact that Jesus did not remain in the grave full seventy-two hours. But he repeatedly said that he would rise on the third day and that is precisely what happened. He was buried on Friday afternoon. He was risen on Sunday morning. If he had really remained in the tomb full three days and then had risen after that, it would have been on the fourth day, not on the third day. The occasional phrase “after three days” is merely a vernacular idiom common in all languages and not meant to be exact and precise like “on the third day.” We can readily understand “after three days” in the sense of “on the third day.” It is impossible to understand “on the third day” to be “on the fourth day.”EndQ

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ATR:
<<It was some two miles from Bethany to the tomb.>>

GE replies:
The two Marys and Salome “after the Sabbath bought spices for when they would go to the tomb they would anoint his body” Mark 16:1, which means the women were in Jerusalem – maybe 400 yards away from the tomb, not <<some two miles from Bethany to the tomb>>.

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ATR:
<<When the sun was risen (anateilantos tou h?liou). Genitive absolute, aorist participle, though some manuscripts read anatellontos, present participle.>>

GE replies:
The sun was not <risen> above the horizon; after midnight it “had been coming up again when very early [lian proh-i] before sunrise” possibly three hours before <the sun was risen> and possibly three hours after “earliest of morning” just after midnight Luke 24:1 [orthrou batheohs], and some 9 hours after John 20:1 “while it was yet early of dark—dusk” [proh-i skotias eti ousehs].

GerhardEbersoehn · Sep 14, 2021

Re: ATR:
<<he repeatedly said that he would rise on the third day and that is precisely what happened. He was buried on Friday afternoon. He was risen on Sunday morning.>>

GE replies:
Yes, Jesus repeatedly said that He would rise on the third day and that is precisely what happened. Yes. But that does not make <was buried> or <was risen> in any respect the same linguistically. <was buried> is Indicative Passive Past Tense Verb – action word. <Was risen> is Past Active Adverbial-Adjectival word - an attributive Participle.
Robertson was a phenomenal scholar, but even he could not escape the power traditional assumption sways in Christian thought.

Mark wrote “he (Joseph) laid / deposited, 'katéthehken' Indicative Aorist Active compound Verb, "Him in a sepulchre” 15:46b;

Matthew says “he (Joseph) laid / placed", 'éthehken' Indicative Aorist Active Verb, "Him” 27:60a;

Luke 23:53 reads, “the women saw how his body was laid / placed", 'Indicative Aorist Passive Verb;

John has “they put", 'ethehkán', Indicative Aorist Active Verb, "Jesus there”.

From ‘títhehmi’ – to place / lay / set down.

No Gospel uses <was buried> or <burial> from ‘entaphiadzoh’.263 or ‘thaptomai’.723 because these words apply to the WHOLE UNDERTAKING “to bury” “as the custom-Law-ethics is with the Jews TO BURY – entaphiadzein.” John 40c. “TO BURY” does NOT JUST mean to place / lay / set down the body in the grave; it means “That Day WHOLE-DAY-BONE-Essentia-DAY” of the fifteenth day of the First Month – "unto you", "the Jews, TO BURY”; "to bury .. THAT WHICH REMAINS” of the Passover Sacrifice of Yahweh.

The Gospels therefore, every one, use the Indicative Action-word, the VERB, for when Jesus’ body AT THE VERY END OF “That Day”, THE WHOLE DAY of Jesus’ BURIAL, was placed / laid / set down in the grave.

In Mark 16:9 it says that Jesus “APPEARED” - Active Indicative Verb, “to Mary first”; it does not say He resurrected or was resurrected. ‘Anastas’ is Active – not Passive. Therefore: ‘Anastás’ - “BEING THE RISEN / AS THE RISEN, He (Jesus), early on the First Day of the week appeared to Mary Magdalene first (of all).”

‘Anastás’ is Adjectival-Adverbial PARTICIPLE word-to-describe, HOW Jesus appeared: “When on the First Day of the week He appeared to Mary Magdalene THE RISEN" from the dead.

“Anastas” DOES NOT SAY Jesus was raised from the dead early on the First Day of the week. Not even in English is it possible - <was risen> is not 'was raised'. And A.T. Robertson knew it well, he by no means can be excused for having made this misleading statement of non-fact.

Charlie24 · Sep 14, 2021

GerhardEbersoehn said:
A.T. Robertson on Mark 16:2

When the sun was risen (anateilantos tou h?liou). Genitive absolute, aorist participle, though some manuscripts read anatellontos, present participle. Luke 24:1 has it “at early dawn” (orthrou batheos) and John 20:1 “while it was yet dark.” It was some two miles from Bethany to the tomb. Mark himself gives both notes of time, “very early” (lian pr?i), “when the sun was risen.” Probably they started while it was still dark and the sun was coming up when they arrived at the tomb. All three mention that it was on the first day of the week, our Sunday morning when the women arrive. The body of Jesus was buried late on Friday before the sabbath (our Saturday) which began at sunset. This is made clear as a bell by Luke 23:54 “and the sabbath drew on.” The women rested on the sabbath (Luke 23:56). This visit of the women was in the early morning of our Sunday, the first day of the week. Some people are greatly disturbed over the fact that Jesus did not remain in the grave full seventy-two hours. But he repeatedly said that he would rise on the third day and that is precisely what happened. He was buried on Friday afternoon. He was risen on Sunday morning. If he had really remained in the tomb full three days and then had risen after that, it would have been on the fourth day, not on the third day. The occasional phrase “after three days” is merely a vernacular idiom common in all languages and not meant to be exact and precise like “on the third day.” We can readily understand “after three days” in the sense of “on the third day.” It is impossible to understand “on the third day” to be “on the fourth day.”EndQ

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<<It was some two miles from Bethany to the tomb.>>

The two Marys and Salome “after the Sabbath bought spices for when they would go to the tomb they would anoint his body” Mark 16:1, which means the women were in Jerusalem – maybe 400 yards away from the tomb, not <<some two miles from Bethany to the tomb>>.

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<<When the sun was risen (anateilantos tou h?liou). Genitive absolute, aorist participle, though some manuscripts read anatellontos, present participle.>>

The sun was not <risen> above the horizon; after midnight it “had been coming up again when very early [lian proh-i] before sunrise” possibly three hours before <the sun was risen> and possibly three hours after “earliest of morning” just after midnight Luke 24:1 [orthrou batheohs], and some 9 hours after John 20:1 “while it was yet early of dark—dusk” [proh-i skotias eti ousehs].

The new day began for them at sunset and not midnight as we have it today. So if Jesus was crucified on Friday and placed in the tomb just before sunset of that day, that would be less than 2 days.

Jesus said, a Jonah was in the belly of the whale 3 days, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth 3 days.

Here's how I see it. John tells us in 19:31,

"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."

The "high day" was a High Sabbath that was actually a sabbath added to the normal Sabbath, a double Sabbath so to speak.

It would have been Nisan 15, which would add a Sabbath to the normal Sabbath. This would place this "high day" on Thursday before the preparation day of Friday and the normal Sabbath of Saturday.

Jesus was crucified on the day before the "high day" of Nisan 15. This means He was crucified on Wednesday and placed in the tomb just before sunset when Thursday was to begin.

Count the days, Thur., Fri., Sat., at sundown. Christ was in the tomb exactly 3 days and rose sometime around sunset on Saturday.

When they came on Sunday morning Christ had already been risen appox. 12 hours or so.

There are several arguments on this, but this is what I see as the closest to what happened.

GerhardEbersoehn · Sep 14, 2021

Re: ATR:

<<it was on the first day of the week, our Sunday morning when the women arrive. This visit of the women was in the early morning of our Sunday, the first day of the week.>>

GE replies:

In this instance of Luke 24:1, ATR meant to say with <this visit>, that it was the women’s only visit to the tomb, and that they made the journey for <this (only) visit>, <in the early morning of our Sunday>.

But then ATR starts to embroider. As already shown, he identifies this visit with the one in Mark 16:2 as well as with <the visit> John 20:1 allegedly recorded. ATR meant to endorse and confirm the accepted Christian viewpoint that the women made only one trip to the tomb.

ATR explains <<the women started (out in Bethany) .. and when they arrived at the tomb the sun was coming up while it was still dark.>> In this way ATR says the time in John 20:1 and Mark 16:2 and of course in Matthew 28:1 as well, was the same time of night Sunday morning.

ATR also told us <<It was some two miles from Bethany to the tomb. Probably they started>>. All the women then came from Bethany, and together and at the same time of night Sunday morning, <arrived at the tomb>.

While the Gospels are supposed to be the Good and SURE and CERTAIN News of our Salvation – and they are –, IF ATR AND THE CHURCH ARE TO BE BELIEVED, systematic expository analysis of all the detail the four Gospels readily offer, immediately exposes innumerable insurmountable contradictions and irreconcilabilities INSTEAD!

Now here is how brilliant Robertson was, and how bright Christianity thinks it is. Instead of allowing the INEVITABLE, chaotic untruth, simply twist-shift the unpleasantness of the actual issue, to the subject matter of the totally IRRELEVANT— and MOVE THE ARGUMENT OFF FROM the historic and Textual Truth of the women’s actual Visits At The Tomb, ONTO the obviously sinister fatuity that ‘the 72 hours’ is at stake!

GerhardEbersoehn · Sep 14, 2021

Charlie24 said:
The new day began for them at sunset and not midnight as we have it today. So if Jesus was crucified on Friday and placed in the tomb just before sunset of that day, that would be less than 2 days.

Jesus said, a Jonah was in the belly of the whale 3 days, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth 3 days.

Here's how I see it. John tells us in 19:31,

"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."

The "high day" was a High Sabbath that was actually a sabbath added to the normal Sabbath, a double Sabbath so to speak.

It would have been Nisan 15, which would add a Sabbath to the normal Sabbath. This would place this "high day" on Thursday before the preparation day of Friday and the normal Sabbath of Saturday.

Jesus was crucified on the day before the "high day" of Nisan 15. This means He was crucified on Wednesday and placed in the tomb just before sunset when Thursday was to begin.

Count the days, Thur., Fri., Sat., at sundown. Christ was in the tomb exactly 3 days and rose sometime around sunset on Saturday.

When they came on Sunday morning Christ had already been risen appox. 12 hours or so.

There are several arguments on this, but this is what I see as the closest to what happened.

Thanks for answering. Please be patient, I'm getting old it seems ... for sure! God bless

Charlie24 · Sep 14, 2021

GerhardEbersoehn said:
Thanks for answering. Please be patient, I'm getting old it seems ... for sure! God bless

The KJV says in Mark 16:2

"And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun."

What is the rising of the sun considered to be? Is it when it's still dark but you can see the light of the sun rising in the sky?

Or is it when it's light and the sun has risen? What is "at the rising of the sun?

GerhardEbersoehn · Sep 14, 2021

Charlie24 said:
The new day began for them at sunset and not midnight as we have it today. So if Jesus was crucified on Friday and placed in the tomb just before sunset of that day, that would be less than 2 days.

It isn't necessary to say <<So if>>, ever.

Jesus was NOT crucified on Friday. Read Luke 23:50 on, Mark 15:42 on, Matthew 27:57 on, John 19:31,38 on.
YOU, are saying: <<The new day began for them at sunset>>, and so it is. The Bible day BEGINS sunset and the ensuing "evening" the FOUR Gospels mention and or suppose and imply.

Now read on (until the end of those chapters) and what do you read? BURIAL UNDERTAKING FACTS AND EVENTS!

Are they Crucifixion facts and events? NO!

Are they Resurrection data - facts and events? NO!

Jesus was NOT crucified but BURIED on Friday!

GerhardEbersoehn · Sep 14, 2021

Charlie24 said:
The KJV says in Mark 16:2

"And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun."

What is the rising of the sun considered to be? Is it when it's still dark but you can see the light of the sun rising in the sky?

Or is it when it's light and the sun has risen? What is "at the rising of the sun?

'lian proh-i anateilantos tou hehliou', "very early being-while-in-the-middle-of-the-rising of the sun" -- 'ana'-again-new-'teilantos'-going-to-the end / fullness-rising', is in the middle of the sun's rising to sunrise. Logically in the middle of the morning, 3 AM between midnight and sunrise 6 AM.

Visits at the tomb “on the First Day”

1) “Mary sees the stone removed”, “while being early darkness still”, dusk. Then Peter and John go to the tomb to see what Mary has told them. (Jn20:1-10)

2) “Earliest morning- darkness”, just after midnight, “the two women” (variant – the two Marys), “and certain others with them”, for the first time, “came to the sepulchre, bringing the spices they had prepared”. (Lk24:1) “They returned from the sepulchre, and told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest.” (“Then Peter stood up and ran to the tomb; and bending low over, he saw the linen clothes. He went back, wandering by himself about that what had happened.” (Lk24:9-12) Cf. John's account in 20:1-10. Luke talks of another visit by Peter, because for one thing, he doesn't mention John.)

3) These women to make sure, a second time came to the tomb “very early before sunrise”. (Mk16:2)

4) Mary from after the others had fled in fear (Mk16:8) “had had stood after without at the grave” (Jn20:11). At the time a gardener should begin work, about sunrise, Jesus “early … first appeared to Mary”. (Mk16:9)

5) Soon after – after they a third time have visited the tomb and “the angel explained” to them what had happened during the Resurrection – Jesus appears to the other women “as they went to tell his disciples”. (Mt28:5, 9)

Mary went to the tomb, three times, Jn20:1, Lk24:1, Mk16:2, and Mk16:9 when she “had remained standing behind” until, Jn20:11, Jesus appeared to her, “first”, Mk16:9, and alone, “at the grave”, Jn20:16.

The other women also went to the tomb, three times, Lk24:1, Mk16:2, and Mt28:5 when “the angel explained” to them what had happened during the Resurrection, and Jesus, as “they went to tell his disciples”, appeared to them. (Mt28:5, 9)

The answer to the ‘Easter enigma’ (John Wenham) is simple: Each Gospel contributed to the whole with one of several sources; each added a personal part that, put together, will bring the whole story of the Resurrection into proper perspective.

Tradition – that is, the Sunday-resurrection approach – makes of these several stories of several visits, the one and simultaneous occasion of Jesus’ resurrection. Contradictions, discrepancies and total confusion are the inevitable result! It was bad enough that this ‘solution’ to a self-created ‘riddle’ was ever offered just to protect Sunday’s presumed status of being the day of Jesus' Resurrection. It became a comedy of tragic proportions when Sunday-protagonists began to defend their presumptuousness through unlawful improvements or improvisations on the Scriptures.

GerhardEbersoehn · Sep 14, 2021

Charlie24 said:
It would have been Nisan 15, which would add a Sabbath to the normal Sabbath. This would place this "high day" on Thursday before the preparation day of Friday and the normal Sabbath of Saturday.

I cannot make any sense out of this, but know precisly what you're after. Let me assure you, it does not work simply because it is not Scripture.

Charlie24 · Sep 14, 2021

GerhardEbersoehn said:
'lian proh-i anateilantos tou hehliou', "very early being-while-in-the-middle-of-the-rising of the sun" -- 'ana'-again-new-'teilantos'-going-to-the end / fullness-rising', is in the middle of the sun's rising to sunrise. Logically in the middle of the morning, 3 AM between midnight and sunrise 6 AM.

Visits at the tomb “on the First Day”

1) “Mary sees the stone removed”, “while being early darkness still”, dusk. Then Peter and John go to the tomb to see what Mary has told them. (Jn20:1-10)

2) “Earliest morning- darkness”, just after midnight, “the two women” (variant – the two Marys), “and certain others with them”, for the first time, “came to the sepulchre, bringing the spices they had prepared”. (Lk24:1) “They returned from the sepulchre, and told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest.” (“Then Peter stood up and ran to the tomb; and bending low over, he saw the linen clothes. He went back, wandering by himself about that what had happened.” (Lk24:9-12) Cf. John's account in 20:1-10. Luke talks of another visit by Peter, because for one thing, he doesn't mention John.)

3) These women to make sure, a second time came to the tomb “very early before sunrise”. (Mk16:2)

4) Mary from after the others had fled in fear (Mk16:8) “had had stood after without at the grave” (Jn20:11). At the time a gardener should begin work, about sunrise, Jesus “early … first appeared to Mary”. (Mk16:9)

5) Soon after – after they a third time have visited the tomb and “the angel explained” to them what had happened during the Resurrection – Jesus appears to the other women “as they went to tell his disciples”. (Mt28:5, 9)

Mary went to the tomb, three times, Jn20:1, Lk24:1, Mk16:2, and Mk16:9 when she “had remained standing behind” until, Jn20:11, Jesus appeared to her, “first”, Mk16:9, and alone, “at the grave”, Jn20:16.

The other women also went to the tomb, three times, Lk24:1, Mk16:2, and Mt28:5 when “the angel explained” to them what had happened during the Resurrection, and Jesus, as “they went to tell his disciples”, appeared to them. (Mt28:5, 9)

The answer to the ‘Easter enigma’ (John Wenham) is simple: Each Gospel contributed to the whole with one of several sources; each added a personal part that, put together, will bring the whole story of the Resurrection into proper perspective.

Tradition – that is, the Sunday-resurrection approach – makes of these several stories of several visits, the one and simultaneous occasion of Jesus’ resurrection. Contradictions, discrepancies and total confusion are the inevitable result! It was bad enough that this ‘solution’ to a self-created ‘riddle’ was ever offered just to protect Sunday’s presumed status of being the day of the Resurrection. It became a comedy of tragic proportions when Sunday-protagonists began to defend their presumptuousness through unlawful improvements on the Scriptures.

It is my opinion, not worth much, that Jesus was placed in the tomb just before the "High Sabbath" began at sunset on Wednesday. If He was in the tomb for 3 days, and I believe it was exactly 3 days, then He rose 3 days later, that being a Saturday just before sunset when the new day began for Sunday.

GerhardEbersoehn · Sep 14, 2021

Charlie24 said:
It is my opinion, not worth much, that Jesus was placed in the tomb just before the "High Sabbath" began at sunset on Wednesday. If He was in the tomb for 3 days, and I believe it was exactly 3 days, then He rose 3 days later, that being a Saturday just before sunset when the new day began for Sunday.

You say this opinion of yours is not worth much, yet you claim it is worth that

<Jesus was placed in the tomb just before the "High Sabbath" began at sunset>

<on Wednesday>

<He was in the tomb for 3 days>

<exactly 3 days>

<then He rose 3 days later>

<that being a Saturday just before sunset>

<when the new day began for Sunday>

I have never seen an opinion worth or sold for less Scripture.

Charlie24 · Sep 14, 2021

GerhardEbersoehn said:
You say this opinion of yours is not worth much, yet you claim it is worth that

<Jesus was placed in the tomb just before the "High Sabbath" began at sunset>

<on Wednesday>

<He was in the tomb for 3 days>

<exactly 3 days>

<then He rose 3 days later>

<that being a Saturday just before sunset>

<when the new day began for Sunday>

I have never seen an opinion worth or sold for less Scripture.

But it is scripture! We studied this in school but it was so long ago I can't remember it in detail!

Got questions can explain it better than I can.

What is a high Sabbath? | GotQuestions.org

GerhardEbersoehn · Sep 15, 2021

Charlie24 said:
But it is scripture! We studied this in school but it was so long ago I can't remember it in detail!

Got questions can explain it better than I can.

What is a high Sabbath? | GotQuestions.org

Yours source states, <<The Gospel of John says the day following Christ’s death and burial was a high Sabbath, or, as the NIV puts it, “a special Sabbath” (John 19:31). In this case, the high Sabbath was a regular Sabbath day that coincided with the Passover festival. It was a “double Sabbath,” so to speak, and considered “doubly holy”: to the weekly Sabbath, as normally observed, was added the first day of the Passover feast, Nissan 15, which also carried the solemnity of a Sabbath>>

Check: <<John says the day following Christ’s death and burial was a high Sabbath .. (John 19:31)>>

THIS IS IT.
Just show - quote - John 19 FROM verse 31 and only ONE word which has to do with <<Christ’s death>> or crucifixion for that matter!

Only 1 word, and this here will be my last post or word I'll ever write,

God be merciful

GerhardEbersoehn · Sep 15, 2021

GerhardEbersoehn · Sep 16, 2021

A.T. Robertson said:
repeatedly said that he would rise on the third day and that is precisely what happened. He was buried on Friday afternoon. He was risen on Sunday morning.

Jesus repeatedly said that He would rise on the third day and that is precisely what happened. He was FINISHED buried AFTER ALL "THAT DAY The Preparation", on Friday afternoon. He rose "on the day which is after the Preparation Friday - the third day He said He would rise again - the Sabbath mid-afternoon daylight inclining / declining towards before the First Day of the week" Sunday.

GerhardEbersoehn · Sep 16, 2021

A.T. Robertson said:
All three mention that it was on the first day of the week, our Sunday morning when the women arrive.

Matthew mentions Jesus' first appearnce to the women OTHER than Mary Magdalene. Matthew NOT AT ALL <<mention(s) that it was on the first day of the week, our Sunday morning>> or, <<that it was - when the women arrive(d)>>. NOT AT ALL.

We do know, though, that this Appearance happened on Sunday morning after sunrise because John (20:11f) and Mark 16:9 mention Jesus' Appearance "to Mary Magdalene, first", she having supposed Jesus was the gardener arriving at sunrise on duty in the garden, which happened as Mark says, "early on the First Day of the week", 16:9.

GerhardEbersoehn · Sep 16, 2021

GerhardEbersoehn · Sep 16, 2021

A.T. Robertson Mark 16,2 | thelordsday (wordpress.com)

Re: Robertson: “Probably they started while it was still dark and the sun was coming up when they arrived at the tomb.”

GE:

Respected scholar he is, Dr. Robertson is speculating; and he admits that he is speculating. He is speculating on the false premises of “they …. probably …. started while it was still dark and the sun was coming up when they arrived at the tomb”.

The only place where the idea, “they started while” is possible, is Mt28:1, “While Mary Magdalene and the other Mary started out to go see the tomb, there was a great earthquake”. It does not say or mean or intend to say, “they arrived at the tomb”.

The idea “they arrived at the tomb” is possible in Mark 16:2-3 and Lk24:1, and in these texts only. It is not possible in Mt28:1, and it is not possible in Jn20:1, or in Mk16:9, or in Jn20:11, or anywhere else. Dr. Robertson’s “probably” is totally improbable.

After all, there is nowhere the slightest suggestion of some journey made by women. The only actual ‘journey’ to the tomb described anywhere, is that of Peter and John in Jn20:3-10. But in Jn20:1, it is, “Mary comes, she sees….”; in Jn20:11 it is, “Mary had had stood after…..”; in Lk24:1, “Now…. they came / got to / upon the sepulchre….”; in Mk16:1, “They come / get to / upon the tomb….”. Arrival as such – no walking over any distance to the tomb – is being described.

Curtis · Sep 16, 2021

GerhardEbersoehn said:
A.T. Robertson on Mark 16:2

Quote:When the sun was risen (anateilantos tou h?liou). Genitive absolute, aorist participle, though some manuscripts read anatellontos, present participle. Luke 24:1 has it “at early dawn” (orthrou batheos) and John 20:1 “while it was yet dark.” It was some two miles from Bethany to the tomb. Mark himself gives both notes of time, “very early” (lian pr?i), “when the sun was risen.” Probably they started while it was still dark and the sun was coming up when they arrived at the tomb. All three mention that it was on the first day of the week, our Sunday morning when the women arrive. The body of Jesus was buried late on Friday before the sabbath (our Saturday) which began at sunset. This is made clear as a bell by Luke 23:54 “and the sabbath drew on.” The women rested on the sabbath (Luke 23:56). This visit of the women was in the early morning of our Sunday, the first day of the week. Some people are greatly disturbed over the fact that Jesus did not remain in the grave full seventy-two hours. But he repeatedly said that he would rise on the third day and that is precisely what happened. He was buried on Friday afternoon. He was risen on Sunday morning. If he had really remained in the tomb full three days and then had risen after that, it would have been on the fourth day, not on the third day. The occasional phrase “after three days” is merely a vernacular idiom common in all languages and not meant to be exact and precise like “on the third day.” We can readily understand “after three days” in the sense of “on the third day.” It is impossible to understand “on the third day” to be “on the fourth day.”EndQ

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ATR:
<<It was some two miles from Bethany to the tomb.>>

GE replies:
The two Marys and Salome “after the Sabbath bought spices for when they would go to the tomb they would anoint his body” Mark 16:1, which means the women were in Jerusalem – maybe 400 yards away from the tomb, not <<some two miles from Bethany to the tomb>>.

Re:
ATR:
<<When the sun was risen (anateilantos tou h?liou). Genitive absolute, aorist participle, though some manuscripts read anatellontos, present participle.>>

GE replies:
The sun was not <risen> above the horizon; after midnight it “had been coming up again when very early [lian proh-i] before sunrise” possibly three hours before <the sun was risen> and possibly three hours after “earliest of morning” just after midnight Luke 24:1 [orthrou batheohs], and some 9 hours after John 20:1 “while it was yet early of dark—dusk” [proh-i skotias eti ousehs].

Except adding the words AND NIGHTS precludes it being parts of three days.

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.

GerhardEbersoehn · Sep 16, 2021

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