Well I rewatched teh video. Lots of hard work to be commended for teh diligent labor.
BUT the two fatal errors.
I researched with my best mentor Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum!
Before He became a Messianic Jew He had been studying onder his father ( a chief rabbi) to become a chief rabbi or rabbi over rabbis! He knows Jewish culture! He has lived in Jerusalem, studied at Hebrew University and has written extensively on teh life and time of Jesus.
Here are the two fatal flaws that destroy the videos argument.
1. The high days were not called Sabbaths until after the time of Jesus. Before that they were called High Days or days of holy convocation just as scripture declared. I just learned that myself. so calling them a high Sabbath is technically incorrect biblically. Colloquially they are fine but that is not the biblical language.
2. the speaker simply did not know Jewish culture and how they counted a day! Teh Jews considered any part of a day- a whole day when talking without specific modifying terms. so when Jesus daid three days and three nights ( He also said on the third day and also after three days) All that was understood is that He would spend Friday, Saturday and Sunday or any part of those days thereof and He would have spoken exactly as His listeners understood! so Jesus was buried on Friday, spent all of Saturday in the tomb also and rose after sundown sand before the women arrived,
which in the culture of the day was three days and three nights! It is us who lost understanding of these idiom of language!
3. Once again I checked! grammatically even with Calling the day of Preparation a high day, it would still be Saturday. Teh Jews of Jesus day di dnot call them High Sabbaths or Sabbath, but high days and days of holy convocation!
Sorry the speaker can have his belief, but it is simply not based on fact!
Where is your Biblical evidence that the Jews counted a partial day as a whole day? I showed Mary, from the Bible, that the Jews did NOT count a partial day as a whole day. That idea is totally bogus. (Refer to the parable of the landowner. Matthew 20)
Jesus said he would be three days and three nights in the earth in a like manner as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a whale. There is nothing in the account of Jonah to suggest partial days and nights.
The counting of partial days is dubious. For one, we can't count Friday as a partial day because Friday was already finished before Jesus was placed in the tomb. Remember, we are counting the days and nights that Jesus was in the tomb. Jesus was dead three hours before the end of the day, but he didn't rest in the tomb until evening when the day was over. Friday was not a partial day. It was evening when Joseph laid Jesus in tomb. You can't count Friday in any scenario.
Sunday was not a partial day because according to the text, the tomb was empty when the women found the tomb on Sunday morning. Again, we are counting the days that Jesus was in the tomb. We have NO Biblical evidence that Jesus was in the tomb on Sunday. So then, You can't count Sunday in any scenario. All you have is Saturday.
Does 1=3? I don't think so.
Finally, the partial day theory leaves NO time for the women to purchase and prepare spices for the burial of Jesus.
As we read the gospel of John, we must bear in mind that John the apostle was not speaking as a scholar to scholars. He was speaking as an ambassador of Jesus Christ to a second generation of believers, many of them Gentiles, who had little contact with Jewish culture. John's gospel contains many editorial comments whereby John explains various Jewish ideas to his readers. John 19 is not the only case.
I began reading the gospel of John and I found the following passage, which contains one such editorial comment. In this passage John defines the term "rabbi."
John 1:35-39
Again the next day John was standing with two of his disciples, and he looked at Jesus as He walked, and *said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!” The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. And Jesus turned and saw them following, and *said to them, “What do you seek?” They said to Him, “
Rabbi (which translated means Teacher), where are You staying?” He *said to them, “Come, and you will see.” So they came and saw where He was staying; and they stayed with Him that day, for it was about the tenth hour.
So then, when John tells his readers that a particular "Sabbath" was a "High Holy Day" he isn't speaking as a scholar to scholars. He is speaking to an audience that doesn't know the meaning of the word "rabbi."
John 1:41-42
He *found first his own brother Simon and *said to him, “We have found the
Messiah” (which translated means Christ). 42 He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of John; you shall be called
Cephas” (which is translated Peter).
So then, within the context of only seven verses, we have three different editorial comments where John defines the meanings of various words. He also explains Jewish custom as we see in the following passage.
John 4:7-8
There *came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus *said to her, “Give Me a drink.” For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. Therefore the Samaritan woman *said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman?”
(For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
There might be other editorial comments in his gospel. The point is, we have three editorial comments within the first chapter and one in the fourth, alerting the reader to information that might be unfamiliar. When the gospel record calls for it, John explains Jewish customs, presumably to those who wouldn't know.
For this reason, I have no problem with John's explanation that a particular "day of rest" was a High Holy Day.
