Did Jesus die on Friday?

[Scott Downey]

The idea that Jesus rose on a Friday is MAN'S TRADITION.

When Jesus said His body would be in the tomb for 3 days and 3 nights, He meant that literally 3 days and 3 nights.

The ONLY way that an accounting of the 3 days and 3 nights can be Biblically determined is by...

1. using the Hebrew calendar reckoning for a day and night, which the day is from sunset to the following sunset.

2. counting back from the 1st day of the week (Sunday) when Jesus rose and appeared.

The ONLY result will be that He was crucified per the Exodus Passover sacrifice requirement, on Nissan 14, at evening, which was a Wednesday. Thus the 1st night began at sunset after He was crucified.

Christ rose on the third day. Crucified on first day, and in the grave.
Some thinking is saying Christ rose on the fourth day, with a full 3 days and full 3 nights in the tomb, which is not what Christ says at all.
Example,
Friday died in the afternoon, then all Friday night is first day
Saturday in the grave during the day and all Saturday night is 2nd day
Sunday in the grave all day and all Sunday night is the 3rd day finished.
Rising on the fourth day.

If you say though he was raised Sunday night to satisfy 3 days, that contradicts how Christ rose early on the third day, Mark 16:9, so Christ did not raise up on Sunday night after the sun goes down.

1. Matthew 16:21
   

   Jesus Predicts His Death and Resurrection​

   From that time Jesus began to show to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day.
   Matthew 17:23
2. and they will kill Him, and the third day He will be raised up.” And they were exceedingly sorrowful.
   Matthew 20:19
3. and deliver Him to the Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucify. And the third dayHe will rise again.”
   Matthew 27:64
4. Therefore command that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest His disciples come by night and steal Him away, and say to the people, ‘He has risen from the dead.’ So the last deception will be worse than the first.”
   Mark 9:31
5. For He taught His disciples and said to them, “The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill Him. And after He is killed, He will rise the third day.”
   Mark 10:34
6. and they will mock Him, and scourge Him, and spit on Him, and kill Him. And the third day He will rise again.”
   Luke 9:22
7. saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day.”
   Luke 13:32
8. And He said to them, “Go, tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.’
   Luke 18:33
9. They will scourge Him and kill Him. And the third day He will rise again.”
   Luke 24:7
10. saying, ‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.’ ”

 

[Scott Downey]

Of interest also is the ninth hour when Jesus breathes His last on the cross. The 'ninth' hour refers to nine hours from sunrise or 3pm in the afternoon. Seeing sunrise is around 6am, that would be the first hour. 6am plus 9 hours puts it at 3pm, the ninth hour from sunrise. You can see how the Jews or the people living in that ancient time counted daytime as the sunrise, so before that it was considered nighttime of the same day. The day changed at midnight, so Saturday turns into Sunday at midnight and so on. Even our weekly calendar has Sunday marking the first day of the week, with Saturday at the far right, the 7th day of the week.

So Christ died with the sun still in the sky being the first day of his being in the heart of the earth, dead in the tomb. Even Pilate questioned that he had died so quickly, is he so soon dead. Not only did he have to die during the daylight to meet the 3 days in the earth, who wants to die any longer than needed to fulfil prophecy?

Jesus Dies on the Cross​

33 Now when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. 34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is translated, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

35 Some of those who stood by, when they heard that, said, “Look, He is calling for Elijah!” 36 Then someone ran and filled a sponge full of sour wine, put it on a reed, and offered it to Him to drink, saying, “Let Him alone; let us see if Elijah will come to take Him down.”

37 And Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and breathed His last.

 

[Scott Downey]

Jesus was buried the day right before the Sabbath on the Preparation Day which would have been Friday, the Sabbath being the Day of rest, the seventh Day, for in 6 days God created the heavens and the earth and on the 7th day He tested from all His labors.

Jesus Buried in Joseph’s Tomb​

42 Now when evening had come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath, 43 Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent council member, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, coming and taking courage, went in to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.

Now consider also, God hallowed the 7th day and rested from all His labors. It says of Christ this,
Revelation 13:8
All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

God though rested on the 7th day from ALL HIS WORK.
Genesis 2:2
And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
Genesis 2:3
Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

God did a mighty work when He raised Christ from the dead, how then can God do a work on the sabbath day, He is not a liar.
Means Christ did not rise on the Sabbath day (7th day).
Christ rose early on the first day (1st day) of the week.

1. Acts 2:24
   whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.
   Acts 2:32
2. This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all witnesses.
   Acts 3:26
3. To you first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of youfrom your iniquities.”
   Acts 5:30
4. The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree.
   Acts 10:40
5. Him God raised upon the third day, and showed Him openly,

 

[Jay Ross]

My money is Thursday.

 

[Scott Downey]

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The proof of the day Jesus died is when is the Sabbath Day.
Christ was taken off the cross on the Preparation Day which in one day before the Sabbath.
Anyone saying Thursday or some other day than Friday must also be saying the Sabbath is the day after the day they claim for the death of Christ. If you say Thursday, then you're also claiming the Sabbath is on Friday.

Luke 23 shows this and also that the next day after Preparation Day was the Sabbath, v54-55.
Jesus was buried on Preparation Day.

Jesus Buried in Joseph’s Tomb​

50 Now behold, there was a man named Joseph, a council member, a good and just man. 51 He had not consented to their decision and deed. He was from Arimathea, a city of the Jews, who[o] himself was also waiting for the kingdom of God. 52 This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. 53 Then he took it down, wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a tomb that was hewn out of the rock, where no one had ever lain before. 54 That day was the Preparation, and the Sabbath drew near.

55 And the women who had come with Him from Galilee followed after, and they observed the tomb and how His body was laid. 56 Then they returned and prepared spices and fragrant oils. And they rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment.

 

[Davy]

Some thinking is saying Christ rose on the fourth day, with a full 3 days and full 3 nights in the tomb, which is not what Christ says at all.

You are misrepresenting what Jesus Himself said...

Matt 12:40
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.
KJV

And just because Jesus said "three days" in Matthew 27:63 and John 2:19 does not change the fact that He meant 3 literal days and 3 literal nights, as per a 24 hour period reckoning for a day.

Anyone should have enough common sense to know that even a 'day' marked on a calendar always includes its period of the NIGHT.

So it's SILLY and IGNORANT to try to discard the 'night' period when saying it like "three days".

In Matthew 12:40, Lord Jesus made it 'specific' that 3 days AND 3 nights are meant.

So one MUST count the night periods with the days, just as they went by the Hebrew reckoning for the night starting at sunset and ending at dawn, and the day starting at dawn and ending at sunset.

 

[Scott Downey]

You are misrepresenting what Jesus Himself said...

Matt 12:40
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.
KJV

And just because Jesus said "three days" in Matthew 27:63 and John 2:19 does not change the fact that He meant 3 literal days and 3 literal nights, as per a 24 hour period reckoning for a day.

Anyone should have enough common sense to know that even a 'day' marked on a calendar always includes its period of the NIGHT.

So it's SILLY and IGNORANT to try to discard the 'night' period when saying it like "three days".

In Matthew 12:40, Lord Jesus made it 'specific' that 3 days AND 3 nights are meant.

So one MUST count the night periods with the days, just as they went by the Hebrew reckoning for the night starting at sunset and ending at dawn, and the day starting at dawn and ending at sunset.

EXCEPT that Christ said on the third day, he shall rise, as in on that day, not the fourth day. Your logical 3 days and 3 nights puts Christ to rise on the 4th day. If you are honest with scripture, you will see your conflict.

Matthew 16:21

Jesus Predicts His Death and Resurrection​

From that time Jesus began to show to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day.

There are many scriptures saying he rose on the third day, not after 3 days.

Matthew 17:23
and they will kill Him, and the third day He will be raised up.” And they were exceedingly sorrowful.

Matthew 20:19
and deliver Him to the Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucify. And the third day He will rise again.”

Mark 9:31
For He taught His disciples and said to them, “The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill Him. And after He is killed, He will rise the third day.”

Luke 9:22
saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day.”

Luke 24:46
Then He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,

Acts 10:40
Him God raised up on the third day, and showed Him openly,

1 Corinthians 15:4
and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,

 

[Scott Downey]

Luke 9:22
saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day.”

Luke 24:46
Then He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,

Acts 10:40
Him God raised up on the third day, and showed Him openly,

1 Corinthians 15:4
and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,

At 12:00 AM begins the next day, is the start of the next day, yet its dark outside, there is no sun, so it is a night.
That is the third night in the tomb, it began at 12 midnight a Sunday, the sun rises around 6 am and it is light outside again, that is the third day, a Sunday morning as it is not night any longer, the sun and the Son have risen..

Astuces : Is 12 am Night or day?

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12:00AM is in the next day/at the start of the day. The previous day ended at the end of the last second of the previous day which was 11:59:59PM. The next second is the first second of the next day: 12:00:00AM to 12:00:01AM.

What time is Sunday midnight?​

“11:59 PM Sunday » is the last minute of Sunday and at 12:00 AM (Sunday midnight) we start Monday. “11:59 PM Monday » is the last minute of Monday, and at 12:00 AM (Monday midnight) we start Tuesday.

Is 12pm correct?​

Use noon or midnight. Do not use 12 p.m. or 12 a.m. Use noon or midnight. Do not use 8 a.m. in the morning (redundant) Use 8 a.m. Do not use o’clock with a.m. or p.m.

Which day does 12 am belong to?​

12:00AM is in the next day/at the start of the day. The previous day ended at the end of the last second of the previous day which was 11:59:59PM. The next second is the first second of the next day: 12:00:00AM to 12:00:01AM. (Think of it as/Often it is referred to as 00:00:01.)