Ebersöhn versus Rodriguez - 'First Day Resurrection'

[GerhardEbersoehn]

The First Day and the Resurrection

What the Bible doesn’t say matters too

Angel Rodriguez

Q: Why is the first day of the week mentioned so many times in the Gospels?

I will summarize the data we have about the first day of the week in the Gospels and then draw some conclusions.

Summary: Matthew uses the first day of the week to date the moment the women went “to look at the tomb.” This happened “after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week” (Matt. 28:1).[1] Around that time an angel had descended from heaven and rolled the stone away, and the soldiers had fallen unconscious. Later the women were informed about Jesus’ resurrection (verses 2-6). According to Mark, after the Sabbath the women went to the tomb of Jesus, “very early on the first day of the week . . . when the sun had risen” (Mark 16:2). The language intends to be exact on the chronology. After their arrival they saw that the stone had been removed, and an angel informed them that Jesus had risen.

The reluctance of the Gospels to explicitly state that Jesus was resurrected on the first day of the week is a significant one in the history of Sabbath observance.

Luke tells us that the women rested on the Sabbath “according to the commandment” (Luke 23:56), and dates their trip to the tomb as occurring on the “first day of the week, at early dawn” (Luke 24:1). The tomb was open, but the body of Jesus was absent. Two heavenly beings informed them that Jesus, as He had predicted, had risen “on the third day” (verse 7). John affirms that Jesus died on the day of preparation, before Sabbath (John 19:42). The next event is Mary Magdalene going to the tomb early “on the first day of the week . . . , while it was still dark” (John 20:1). The day of her travel is clearly identified. She found the tomb empty, informed two of the disciples, who came to the tomb and, not understanding what had happened, went home (verses 2-10). Mary stayed behind and talked to two heavenly beings, and finally Jesus appeared to her (verses 11-17).

Conclusions: First, the Gospel narratives used the first day of the week to date the travel of the women to the tomb of Jesus, after keeping the Sabbath. It is implied that other events also occurred during the same day. Second, the narratives clearly imply that Jesus was resurrected on the first day of the week, but this is nowhere explicitly stated.[2] Matthew informs us that the guards went to Jerusalem around the time when the women arrived at the tomb (Matt. 28:11, 13). John ascertains that Mary saw Christ before He ascended to the Father, implying that He had been recently resurrected (John 20:16, 17). In John 20:19 Jesus appeared to the disciples during the evening of “the first day of the week,” implying that Jesus’ resurrection occurred on that particular day. Third, Jesus’ resurrection is explicitly dated by the angel to “the third day” (Luke 24:7), a phrase used by the two disciples going to Emmaus to date their encounter with the resurrected Lord (verse 7). The reluctance of the Gospels to explicitly state that Jesus was resurrected on the first day of the week is a significant one in the history of Sabbath observance. It tones down the association of Jesus’ resurrection with Sunday and excludes the idea that this day was being offered to the church as the new day of worship for the church.

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[1] Unless otherwise noted, Bible quotations are from the New American Standard Bible, copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved..

[2] Mark 16:9 seems to be the exception: “When Jesus rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene” (Mark 16:9; NIV). This passage, however, is not found in the earliest Greek manuscripts of the Gospel of Mark, and consequently it is not considered to be a biblical witness to the resurrection of Jesus. The verse could also be translated, “Early on the first day of the week, after he arose, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene” (New English Translation Bible, copyright © 1996-2025 by Biblical Studies Press, LLC. All rights reserved.).

Angel Rodriguez

Ángel Manuel Rodríguez, Th.D., is retired after a career serving as pastor, professor, and theologian.

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Rodriguez:

The First Day and the Resurrection

What the Bible doesn’t say matters too



Reply:

Right! True! The Bible does not say anything like that Christ rose or would rise from the dead on the First Day of the week for the best reason there can be, that it is not true, but a lie that it was the First Day and not the Sabbath Day.

In fact, the Bible as a whole and in every respect and aspect of its Single Message of the Word that in the beginning was, and was the Promised Word of God to come, on the contrary culminates in the Last and Seventh Day of Jesus' coming up from the grave, the grave of death and the cause of death, sin, and of the wages of sin, which is death. 1Corinthians 15, Paul's greatest, and the greatest of SABBATH sermons ever preached except for Jesus' live proclamation of the Sabbath's Message of God's Rest by the Resurrection of His Son "in Sabbath's-time".

The Bible says it as many times as the Seventh Day Sabbath OF THE LORD GOD is spoken of in it, and says it a million times clearer and more emphatic where the name of the day is not mentioned but rather is implied and supposed and pre-supposed for understanding the things salvational in the relevant Bible passages, the things about the Word, Jesus the Christ of God, things not spelled out but ever present and inevitable relevant to the eye graced with faith to see.

 

[GerhardEbersoehn]

Rodriguez:

What the Bible doesn’t say matters too



Reply:

Sure! But what matters is, that the Bible says. Face the facts that are the facts, because they are in the Bible, because God speaks them in the Bible. Period.

That will keep anyone who ventures into theology, to be careful, precise, cautious, in every iota and tittle of what the Bible says, or prove himself incompetent in theology.



Rodriguez:

Matthew uses the first day of the week to date the moment the women went “to look at the tomb.”



Reply:

Where does Matthew use <the first day of the week to date the moment the women went “to look at the tomb>?

There is no such Scripture in Matthew, specifically not in Matthew 28:1.

Now quote the exact <This happened “after the Sabbath…” (Matt. 28:1).[1]> [1] [1] Unless otherwise noted, Bible quotations are from the New American Standard Bible, copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved..

Very impressive. Just a pity, this is a post Vatican 2 ‘bible’. Meaning, you don’t quote Scripture; you do not even quote E.G. White. Because you are sworn in to allegiance to the Roman Catholic Papal Authority over Scripture!

Quote the KJAV and most of the time save face.



Rodriguez:

Around that time an angel had descended from heaven and rolled the stone away, and the soldiers had fallen unconscious.



Reply:

Please make up your mind. Is it or was it or had it been <the moment the women went “to look at the tomb> or, is it or was it or had it been <around that time>? But do not worry.

“Suddenly – kai idou – the angel of the Lord descended from heaven and rolled the stone away”, and, “the soldiers had fallen unconscious”, was exactly the ‘moment’ mid-afternoon 3PM “Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb”, and took exactly as long as ‘that time’ mid-afternoon 3PM “Sabbath’s-time being in the daylight inclining towards before the First Day of the week” while the Marys mid-afternoon 3PM “late Sabbath’s-time in the inclining daylight towards before the First Day of the week set out to go have a look at the grave and the soldiers had fallen unconscious when there suddenly was a great earthquake”—, the exact same moment the exact same length of time the exact “SELFSAME DAY” – and, <date>!

<This>– these two things, <happened>: 1. The “Marys, setting out (from Magdalena’s house) at the same time (kai idou) there was a great earthquake”; and, 2. “the soldiers, at the same time (kai idou) there was a great earthquake and the angel descended and cast the stone away from the grave fell down like dead unconscious.”



Rodriguez:

Later the women were informed about Jesus’ resurrection (verses 2-6).



Reply:

<Later> than what, or later than when? Matthew 28:1–4 is the record of the words with which “the angel explained and answered the women” that which had happened the day before “late on / in the end of the Sabbath before the First Day”. That means the angel only the morning after on the First Day of the week, could tell the women (about) what had happened on the Sabbath Day before—that, what time of day and on which day of the week – “on the Sabbath” – the angel opened Jesus’ grave and He inside it, rose out of death.



Rodriguez:

According to Mark, after the Sabbath the women went to the tomb of Jesus, “very early on the first day of the week . . . when the sun had risen” (Mark 16:2).



Reply:

What the Bible does not say, matters too, says Rodriques, correctly. What Rodriques here is doing though, is say because what the Bible does not say matters too, means that what it does not say matters so much that what it does say, matters not. Which of course is virtual plagiarizing the devil’s doctrine of Eden.

Rodriguez:

The First Day and the Resurrection

What the Bible doesn’t say matters too



Reply:

Because what the Bible does not say, matters too, what matters most, is all and everything that matters. For Matthew does not in so many words say Jesus inside his tomb rose out of death, or that He went out of his grave – resurrected. But that in the end of the day is what matters most. Paul realised this, so that he wrote, “The man who in his heart believes in Christ and that He rose from the dead and confesses it with his mouth, shall be saved” – saved from the death that Jesus died in his place for him. But deny and belie every truth which happened at Jesus’ resurrection? In physical place, in actual circumstance, in real time— paying God’s Prophetic Word of Scripture not the slightest attention or respect?! But twist it, corrupt it, replace it with the heresies of Antichrist?! What monstrous devilish doctrine this Sunday resurrection innovation of the Church! Heresy of what sort of ‘Christian Church’? Ban the devils and their angel-false prophets and prophetesses, not The Truth of Christ the truly Crucified and Resurrected prophesied “according to the Scriptures the third day”, verbatim Jesus, Matthew and Paul!

 

[GerhardEbersoehn]

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Rodriguez:

What the Bible doesn’t say matters too

Reply:

Vacuous nonsense for Gospel Truth! God forbid, Jesus never spoke like this. Treacherous and cowardly untruth revealing, exposing, trumpeting the total bankruptcy of its professors--- in their official mouthpiece of all places.

If one believes Sola Scriptura what the Bible does not say matters not— not in the least.

 

[GerhardEbersoehn]

Rodriguez:

Why is the first day of the week mentioned so many times in the Gospels?



Reply:

Just now Rodriguez’ argument was ‘What the Bible DOESN’T say matters too’; immediately he goes on arguing, <Why is the first day of the week mentioned SO MANY TIMES in the Gospels?> Because he knows not what he’s talking, babbling, brabbling about. He must know of course that his question entails and is based on a fundamental, lie. The lie is double, “the First Day of the week” occur 8 times in the New Testament – a fact thousands of times emphasized in SDA literature by every one of those who refer to the fact. Eight times.

Eight times to the number if I remember in the 60’s times that the word or words for ‘sabbath’ or the “Sabbath Day” occur in the New Testament.

While Rodriguez’ argument goes, It is 8 times the NT mentions the First Day of the week authentically as fundamental substantial matter of fact of Jesus’ Resurrection on it— whereas it is zero times the Sabbath Day is mentioned in the NT concerning Jesus’ Resurrection. WHICH IN EVERY CORNER AND SHADOW OF EVERY LETTER OF IT IS THE LIE OF LIES OF ANTICHRIST.

 

[GerhardEbersoehn]

Rodriguez:

Summary: Matthew uses the first day of the week to date the moment the women went “to look at the tomb.” This happened “after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week” (Matt. 28:1).[1] Around that time an angel had descended from heaven and rolled the stone away, and the soldiers had fallen unconscious. Later the women were informed about Jesus’ resurrection (verses 2-6). According to Mark, after the Sabbath the women went to the tomb of Jesus, “very early on the first day of the week . . . when the sun had risen” (Mark 16:2). The language intends to be exact on the chronology. After their arrival they saw that the stone had been removed, and an angel informed them that Jesus had risen.



Reply:

Rodriguez says the above is a <Summary>. A summary based on what? On which most prominent repetition of single words or concepts, or rather a summary based on more complete and cohesive phrases that more or less correlate and agree with each other?



As shown above (Reply: Please make up your mind), there are no meaningful corresponding phrases in Rodriguez’ Summary, while obtrusive repetition of the word <after> is impossible to miss as no existing word according to the KJAV in Matthew 28:1.



THIS IS BLATANT CORRUPTION OF GOD’S WORD. It’s because of the Church’s irresponsible and unforgivable conflagration of irrelevant and consequently irreconcilable passages, passages which respectively indicate, in Matthew 28, “ON the Sabbath BEFORE the First Day”, and in Mark 16, “AFTER the Sabbath ON the First Day”. Impossible not to see; impossible to deny; impossible to refute—unless you write YOUR own bible instead and it still will not be possible to IGNORE.

 

[GerhardEbersoehn]

Rodriguez:

According to Mark, after the Sabbath the women went to the tomb of Jesus, “very early on the first day of the week . . . when the sun had risen” (Mark 16:2). The language intends to be exact on the chronology. After their arrival they saw that the stone had been removed, and an angel informed them that Jesus had risen.



Reply:

<After the Sabbath the women went to the tomb…> is just plain, eye-catchingly false, false translation, false quoting of Mark, just pure false doctrine. The women did not <go to the tomb> after the Sabbath. 1Καὶ διαγενομένου τοῦ σαββάτου Μαρία ἡ Μαγδαληνὴ καὶ Μαρία ἡ τοῦ Ἰακώβου καὶ Σαλώμη ἠγόρασαν ἀρώματα ἵνα ἐλθοῦσαι ἀλείψωσιν αὐτόν. 2καὶ λίαν πρωῒ τῇ μιᾷ τῶν σαββάτων ἔρχονται ἐπὶ τὸ μνῆμα, ἀνατείλαντος τοῦ ἡλίου. “1And when (after) the Sabbath was past (had had gone through), Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought sweet spices, so that, when they would go, they might anoint Him. 2So the sun ascending, they arrived at the sepulchre very early on the First Day of the week.”



Rodriguez:

The language intends to be exact on the chronology. After their arrival they saw that the stone HAD BEEN removed, and an angel informed them that Jesus HAD RISEN.



Reply:

After their arrival they saw that … <they saw that…>. They saw not how Jesus rose, they saw not while when, He rose; but the women could DEDUCE <that Jesus HAD RISEN>, must have wondered one thing: Had Jesus resurrected? Was He risen, alive, bodily and spiritually?.

The women must have thought if Jesus rose, if He had been raised? Was Jesus risen? Had He resurrected from the dead?

But WHEN? The women must have thought: He had to have been resurrected from the dead, BEFORE “the Sabbath was past”, BEFORE “after the Sabbath had gone through”. To be exact on the chronology, Jesus had to have resurrected “Late on the Sabbath, viz., Sabbath’s-time, i.e., In the end of the Sabbath being in the daylight inclining towards before the First Day of the week”!

 

[GerhardEbersoehn]

Rodriguez:

The reluctance of the Gospels to explicitly state that Jesus was resurrected on the first day of the week is a significant one in the history of Sabbath observance.

Reply:

Absolutely. The reluctance of the Gospels to state that Jesus was resurrected on the First Day of the week – Sunday – is a significant one in the history of the Sabbath in the Bible, Old and New Testaments, as in the history of Sabbath observance ever!

What’s your issue with it, what your case against it? You, say, you, write, the Gospels’ reluctance to state that Jesus was resurrected on the First Day of the week!

O my God help me

 

[GerhardEbersoehn]

Rodriguez:

Luke tells us that the women rested on the Sabbath “according to the commandment” (Luke 23:56), and dates their trip to the tomb as occurring on the “first day of the week, at early dawn” (Luke 24:1). The tomb was open, but the body of Jesus was absent. Two heavenly beings informed them that Jesus, as He had predicted, had risen “on the third day” (verse 7).



Reply:

How is it possible for you, a Professor and theologian, to put your pen to paper for this? God, help us

Luke 23:56 tells us that the women “rested (”began to rest” Aorist ἡσύχασαν ) the Sabbath (“the whole Sabbath” τὸ μὲν σάββατον) according to the (Fourth) commandment”, and dates the day before, “54And That Day was the Preparation, and the Sabbath drew on.” καὶ ἡμέρα ἦν Παρασκευῆς, καὶ Σάββατον ἐπέφωσκεν.



Therefore, Luke dates their trip to the tomb as occurring, WHEN? “1upon the First Day of the week after midnight deepest of morning” Luke 24:1.

Luke 23:54-56 was Friday afternoon between 3 and 6 PM—3 hours;

Luke 23:56 was Friday 6 PM until Saturday 6 PM—24 hours;

Luke 24:1 was Sunday after Midnight until 3 AM—at least 6 hours;

Nearly 36 hours between what occurred in Luke 23:54 to 56 and what occurred in Luke 24:1 to 7.

But according to Rodriguez and Adventists, Luke without telling us, tells us, because <what the Bible doesn’t say matters too>. And what the Bible tells us without telling us, according to Rodriguez and all Adventists, is, that <Two heavenly beings informed the women that Jesus, as He had predicted, had risen “on the third day”> MEANING ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK!

If that is not foul play with the Word of God the Bible, WHAT IS?!

 

[GerhardEbersoehn]

Rodriguez:

John affirms that Jesus died on the day of preparation, before Sabbath (John 19:42).

Reply:

John 19:42 “There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' Preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.”

Shameless liar. You say you knew it not, but made a mistake? You coward!

Rodriguez:

The next event is Mary Magdalene going to the tomb early “on the first day of the week . . . , while it was still dark” (John 20:1).

Reply:

No! Not the <next event is…>, but the next verses in John’s Gospel are, John 20, “1The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. 2Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple…”

Now the last verse in John 19 informs the reader: “There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' Preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.” Which all is self-explanatory in every respect pertaining the event of Jesus’ having been laid in the tomb, there in the garden because the grave was near to the garden. That’s it.

The next verses in John’s Gospel, John 20:1,2, inform the reader: “The First Day of the week Mary M comes to the sepulchre, sees the stone taken away from it, then runs. . .”

So the story told, is,

John 19 verse 42, Friday, “because of the Jews’ Preparation (Day for the Sabath)”, aka “That Day the Sabbath nearing” as told by Luke, in 23:54;

Next verse, John 20:1, “The First Day of the week Mary M comes to the sepulchre”.

But what about the Sabbath? What about the Sabbath in John’s Gospel, because Luke, informs the reader, “That Day was the Preparation, the Sabbath nearing, so the women according to the Fourth Commandment began to rest the whole Sabbath long.” Luke 23:54,56.

What about the Sabbath in John, because he says nothing about it?

He simply says nothing about the Sabbath. Why doesn’t John say anything? Because he recorded what the men, the disciples, did on that Sabbath (which was to go into hiding for fear of the Jews who since Friday already may have been searching for them). The disciples caused no <event> worth recording that Sabbath Day, and John had no reason to tell about it. He didn’t know the Rodriguez rule, <What the Bible doesn’t say matters too>.

 

[GerhardEbersoehn]

Rodriguez:

The day of her travel is clearly identified. She found the tomb empty, informed two of the disciples, who came to the tomb and, not understanding what had happened, went home (verses 2-10). Mary stayed behind and talked to two heavenly beings, and finally Jesus appeared to her (verses 11-17).

Reply:

<The day of her travel is clearly identified> is Rodriguez’ illusion, Mary Magdalene experienced no <day of travel>, and if there was one day <identified> or identifiable as such, it was the First Day of the week, not the Sabbath. “The Sabbath, Mary M and the other Mary intended to go to the tomb, to look at it”, but “suddenly as soon as (2 καὶ ἰδοὺ·) they set out (ἦλθεν made the first move) to go look (θεωρῆσαι), there was a great earthquake (2 σεισμὸς ἐγένετο μέγας)”, and the women were obliged to stay put, at home, indoors, “late on the Sabbath” (ὀψὲ σαββάτων).

Rodriguez:

Mary Magdalene going to the tomb early “on the first day of the week… (John 20:1). The day of her travel is clearly identified. She found the tomb empty, informed two of the disciples, who came to the tomb and, not understanding what had happened, went home (verses 2-10). Mary stayed behind and talked to two heavenly beings, and finally Jesus appeared to her (verses 11-17).

Reply:

Mary Magdalene went to the tomb, writes Rodriquez – <…early>— <early on the first day of the week… (John 20:1). The day of her travel is clearly identified.> Good enough for now.

But, writes Rodriquez, <She found the tomb empty, informed two of the disciples…> which is information not found in John 20, but part of is in Luke 24 and part of in John 20, confounded with the clear intention to confuse and deceive.

Mary Magdalene <found the tomb empty>, wrote Luke in chapter 24, but not Mary only.

1 On the First Day of the week, very early in the morning, they (“these two women” Variant) came to the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.

2 And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.

3 And they ENTERED IN, AND FOUND NOT THE BODY of the Lord Jesus.”

Luke names the women who found the body was not the grave, in 10a

“It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles.”

Separate sources of information therefore, containing nonidentical facts, which had absolutely nothing to do with the Resurrection, but everything with Jesus’ first appearances on the First Day of the week. Agrees Rodriguez: <…who came to the tomb and, not understanding what had happened, went home (verses 2-10). Mary stayed behind and talked to two heavenly beings, and finally Jesus appeared to her (verses 11-17)>

This shows what it means when what the Bible doesn’t say matters despite, what the Bible does say. Bad advice help not; it undermines the ability to understand and believe the most important Bible Truth that Christ rose from the dead— which victorious deed of God, was the one Act in the Ultimate Power of God, by which, to the Glory of His Name only, “the Sabbath was made for man”.

 

[GerhardEbersoehn]

Rodriguez:
Conclusions: First, the Gospel narratives used the first day of the week to date the travel of the women to the tomb of Jesus, after keeping the Sabbath. It is implied that other events also occurred during the same day. Second, the narratives clearly imply that Jesus was resurrected on the first day of the week, but this is nowhere explicitly stated.[2] Matthew informs us that the guards went to Jerusalem around the time when the women arrived at the tomb (Matt. 28:11, 13). John ascertains that Mary saw Christ before He ascended to the Father, implying that He had been recently resurrected (John 20:16, 17). In John 20:19 Jesus appeared to the disciples during the evening of “the first day of the week,” implying that Jesus’ resurrection occurred on that particular day. Third, Jesus’ resurrection is explicitly dated by the angel to “the third day” (Luke 24:7), a phrase used by the two disciples going to Emmaus to date their encounter with the resurrected Lord (verse 7). The reluctance of the Gospels to explicitly state that Jesus was resurrected onthe first day of the week is a significant one in the history of Sabbath observance. It tones down the association of Jesus’ resurrection with Sunday and excludes the idea that this day was being offered to the church as the new day of worship for the church.

Rodriguez:
First, the Gospel narratives used the First Day of the week to date the travel of the women to the tomb of Jesus, after keeping the Sabbath. It is implied that other events also occurred during the same day.
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Reply:
Re:
<<the Gospel narratives used the First Day of the week to date the travel of the women to the tomb of Jesus>>

Does this prove or imply or suggest or hint in the direction of the Resurrection or Day of the Resurrection? No, not at all. Even what the Bile does not say, is of no matter or importance or consequence – Rodriguez miserably fails to show either what the Bile does not say or what the Bile does say. His failure helps him or his aim (to prove that Jesus rose on Sunday, not on the Sabbath), nothing.

Rodriguez:
<<Second, the narratives clearly imply that Jesus was resurrected on the first day of the week, but this is nowhere explicitly stated.>>

Reply:
What is this, <[2] narratives clearly imply> but Rodriguez’ clear abuse of the narratives? Because <this is nowhere explicitly stated> in any Gospels!

It clearly is nonsense!

Rodriguez:
<<Matthew informs us that the guards went to Jerusalem around the time when the women arrived at the tomb (Matt. 28:11, 13).>>

Reply:
Matthew informs us that the guards entered Jerusalem just when the women were leaving from the tomb, not <when the women arrived at the tomb>. Whenever, what does it help to prove that Jesus rose on Sunday, not on the Sabbath, as Rodriguez clearly dreams it was?

Clearly nothing!

Rodriguez:
<<John ascertains that Mary saw Christ before He ascended to the Father, implying that He had been recently resurrected (John 20:16, 17).>>

Reply:
What any of these false assumptions may ascertains or imply with regard to the recency or specifics of the day and time of day that the Resurrection occurred, only Rodriguez might tell as soon as he may discover thar what the Bible does not say, matters too.

This, Rodriguez nonsense, only ascertains desperation to collect as many verses in the Bible, whether they have to do with Christ’s resurrection or day of resurrection or not! In other words, Rodriguez nonsense is pure parody, proudness, headstrongness. The Sunday worshipper shall not bend his back the slightest in any direction towards Bible Truth—it might prove his Resurrection on the Sabbath, not the First Day. That is how the founding fathers taught us, and that’s ‘Divine Inspiration’ confirmed. Sunday is the ““day for the whole universe to be Day of Joy””—NOT the Sabbath God The Son Is Lord of, and from death to Eternal Life, Resurrected on.

Rodriguez:
<<In John 20:19 Jesus appeared to the disciples during the evening of “the first day of the week,” implying that Jesus’ resurrection occurred on that particular day.>>

Reply:
Rodriguez did it! Of course no Adventist that ever lived will or can or would or could have seen just what Rodriguez has done here, in and with a single sweeping statement, <In John 20:19 Jesus appeared to the disciples during the evening of “the first day of the week,” implying that Jesus’ resurrection occurred on that particular day.>

What did Rodriguez do with this bombastic all protestation bashing declaration of his – a statement just as well of Adventism from its founding fathers until today in the 21st century AD two centuries later on in time?

What did Rodriguez do?

Rodriguez proved, absolutely, unbiasedly, honestly, straightforwardly, that the King James Version’s translation of John 20: – “19 Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week”, IS WRONG! Yes, not only wrong, but ingenious manipulation, of the Written Word – manipulation in fact of, the Scripture Word in obedience to the dictates of the Sunday worshipping idolatry rampant during 17th century AD Roman Catholic and Protestant Christendom already.

BECAUSE— KJV reads John 20:1, “1The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark”, where the Original reads John 20:1,
1 Τῇ δὲ μιᾷ τῶν σαββάτων Μαρία ἡ Μαγδαληνὴ ἔρχεται πρωῒ σκοτίας ἔτι οὔσης εἰς τὸ μνημεῖον, καὶ βλέπει τὸν λίθον ἠρμένον ἐκ τοῦ μνημείου, which correctly translates, “On the First Day of the week comes Mary Magdalene while early of dark still”, which is “while yet dusk” or “being the early evening”—, but not nearly <when it was yet dark in the morning>.

Notice Rodriguez saying concerning <John 20:19 Jesus appeared to the disciples during the evening of “the first day of the week,” implying that Jesus’ resurrection occurred on that particular day (“the first day of the week,”)>.

<Evening of “the first day of the week” implying on that particular day>. What, on that particular day? The Resurrection, on that Particular day—not appearances on that particular day—according to Professor Angel Rodriguez, that is, <implying that Jesus’ resurrection occurred on that particular day>.

 

[GerhardEbersoehn]

So, what is πρωῒ σκοτίας ἔτι οὔσης other than literally its every iota and tittle what Jesus assured will never change, never be altered, never pass away or vanish like it is obvious it must have, according to the KJ Version of God’s Holy Scripture?

Does it make sense that Jesus appeared to the disciples during the evening of “the first day of the week”?
In every sense, yes!

Does it <imply>, <Jesus’ resurrection occurred on that particular day.>?
In no way!
It makes no sense at all. What does make sense, is that, in John 20:19, Jesus appeared to the disciples “when/being EVENING, that day the First Day of the week.” - οὔσης οὖν ὀψίας τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ τῇ Μιᾷ σαββάτων— properly ‘Sunday night’, according to JOHN’S way to reckon hours of days the ROMAN way, the way the whole world does it to this day.

According to the Jews’ and Old-Testament reckoning of hours and days, the way the Synoptists reckon days and hours from sunset to sunset, also, was the <event> recorded by John in chapter 20:19, Jesus’ appearance to the disciples in hiding, which happened Sunday night, 12 hours for that night plus about 12 hours for the day of ‘Sunday’—about 24 hours between the “evening” Mary M saw the stone, and the “evening” He appeared to the “eleven” disciples according to John 20:19, “when/being EVENING, that day the First Day of the week.” - οὔσης οὖν ὀψίας τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ τῇ Μιᾷ σαββάτων— properly ‘Sunday night’, according to JOHN’S way to reckon hours of days the ROMAN way, the way the whole world does it to this day.

Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene first
John 19:
14And when she saw Jesus standing … 15Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away. 16Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master. 17Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God. 18Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples
===Mark 16:
9 Now when Jesus indeed risen – Ἀναστὰς δὲ, early the First Day of the week appeared first to Mary Magdalene. 10 And she went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept … (“doors closed thronged together for fear of the Jews” Luke 24: 33)

Jesus Appears to Two Disciples “early on the First Day”
Mark 16:
12 After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country. 13And they went and told it unto the others: neither believed they them.
===Luke 24:
25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: 26Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? 27And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. 28And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further. 29But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them. 30And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. 31And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight. 32And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures? (See verse 35And they told what things)

Jesus Appears to the eleven - the Great Commission
Mark 16:
14 Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen. 15And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. 16He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. 17And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 18They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
===Luke 24:
33 And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven thronged together with them that were with them, 34Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon. 35 (See verse 32) And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.
===John 20:
19 Being then EVENING—Οὔσης οὖν ὀψίας (NOT being the first day…)—, that day the First Day of the week—τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ τῇ μιᾷ σαββάτων (NOT the same day at evening No Accusative, no ‘at’! KJV error!)—, where the disciples were crowded in, when for fear of the Jews the doors were shut, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. 20And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord. 21Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. 22A nd when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: 23Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.

Conclusion:
Roriguez, claiming that Jesus’ resurrection occurred when Mary for the first time saw the stone removed, is but ‘implying’, <that Jesus’ resurrection occurred on that particular day the first day of the week Mary Magdalene (was) going to the tomb early “on the first day of the week while it was still dark” (John 20:1)>, intertwining John, Mark, Matthew and Luke on “the First Day of the week,” mistaking ‘implication’ for confusion, <that Jesus’ resurrection occurred on that particular (first) day> of the week. Roriguez offers no real Scripture, uses no logic, elucidates no history, only shows off with his manipulating of eye-catching printing technology.

Luke 24:
29 But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.
29 καὶ παρεβιάσαντο αὐτὸν λέγοντες Μεῖνον μεθ’ ἡμῶν, ὅτι πρὸς ἑσπέραν ἐστὶν καὶ κέκλικεν ἤδη ἡ ἡμέρα. καὶ εἰσῆλθεν τοῦ μεῖναι σὺν αὐτοῖς.

John 20:
19 (KJV error: <19 Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week>) Being then EVENING—Οὔσης οὖν ὀψίας (NOT being the first day…)—, that day the First Day of the week—τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ τῇ μιᾷ σαββάτων (NOT the same day at evening No Accusative, no ‘at’! KJV error) where the disciples were
John 20: 19 Οὔσης οὖν ὀψίας τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ τῇ μιᾷ σαββάτων, καὶ τῶν θυρῶν κεκλεισμένων

 

[GerhardEbersoehn]

So, what is πρωῒ σκοτίας ἔτι οὔσης other than literally its every iota and tittle what Jesus assured will never change, never be altered, never pass away or vanish like it is obvious it must have, according to the KJ Version of God’s Holy Scripture?

Does it make sense that Jesus appeared to the disciples during the evening of “the first day of the week”?
In every sense, yes!

Does it <imply>, <Jesus’ resurrection occurred on that particular day.>?
In no way!
It makes no sense at all. What does make sense, is that, in John 20:19, Jesus appeared to the disciples “when/being EVENING, that day the First Day of the week.” - οὔσης οὖν ὀψίας τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ τῇ Μιᾷ σαββάτων— properly ‘Sunday night’, according to JOHN’S way to reckon hours of days the ROMAN way, the way the whole world does it to this day.

According to the Jews’ and Old-Testament reckoning of hours and days, the way the Synoptists reckon days and hours from sunset to sunset, also, was the <event> recorded by John in chapter 20:19, Jesus’ appearance to the disciples in hiding, which happened Sunday night, 12 hours for that night plus about 12 hours for the day of ‘Sunday’—about 24 hours between the “evening” Mary M saw the stone, and the “evening” He appeared to the “eleven” disciples according to John 20:19, “when/being EVENING, that day the First Day of the week.” - οὔσης οὖν ὀψίας τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ τῇ Μιᾷ σαββάτων— properly ‘Sunday night’, according to JOHN’S way to reckon hours of days the ROMAN way, the way the whole world does it to this day.

Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene first
John 19:
14And when she saw Jesus standing … 15Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away. 16Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master. 17Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God. 18Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples
===Mark 16:
9 Now when Jesus indeed risen – Ἀναστὰς δὲ, early the First Day of the week appeared first to Mary Magdalene. 10 And she went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept … (“doors closed thronged together for fear of the Jews” Luke 24: 33)

Jesus Appears to Two Disciples "toward evening the day far spent"
Mark 16:
12 After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country. 13And they went and told it unto the others: neither believed they them.
===Luke 24:
25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: 26Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? 27And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. 28And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further. 29But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them. 30And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. 31And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight. 32And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures? (See verse 35And they told what things)

Jesus Appears to the eleven - the Great Commission
Mark 16:
14 Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen. 15And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. 16He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. 17And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 18They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
===Luke 24:
33 And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven thronged together with them that were with them, 34Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon. 35 (See verse 32) And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.
===John 20:
19 Being then EVENING—Οὔσης οὖν ὀψίας (NOT being the first day…)—, that day the First Day of the week—τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ τῇ μιᾷ σαββάτων (NOT the same day at evening No Accusative, no ‘at’! KJV error!)—, where the disciples were crowded in, when for fear of the Jews the doors were shut, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. 20And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord. 21Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. 22A nd when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: 23Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.

Conclusion:
Roriguez, claiming that Jesus’ resurrection occurred when Mary for the first time saw the stone removed, is but ‘implying’, <that Jesus’ resurrection occurred on that particular day the first day of the week Mary Magdalene (was) going to the tomb early “on the first day of the week while it was still dark” (John 20:1)>, intertwining John, Mark, Matthew and Luke on “the First Day of the week,” mistaking ‘implication’ for confusion, <that Jesus’ resurrection occurred on that particular (first) day> of the week. Roriguez offers no real Scripture, uses no logic, elucidates no history, only shows off with his manipulating of eye-catching printing technology.

Luke 24:
29 But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.
29 καὶ παρεβιάσαντο αὐτὸν λέγοντες Μεῖνον μεθ’ ἡμῶν, ὅτι πρὸς ἑσπέραν ἐστὶν καὶ κέκλικεν ἤδη ἡ ἡμέρα. καὶ εἰσῆλθεν τοῦ μεῖναι σὺν αὐτοῖς.

John 20:
19 (KJV error: <19 Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week>) Being then EVENING—Οὔσης οὖν ὀψίας (NOT being the first day…)—, that day the First Day of the week—τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ τῇ μιᾷ σαββάτων (NOT the same day at evening No Accusative, no ‘at’! KJV error) where the disciples were
John 20: 19 Οὔσης οὖν ὀψίας τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ τῇ μιᾷ σαββάτων, καὶ τῶν θυρῶν κεκλεισμένων

 

[GerhardEbersoehn]

Rodriguez:
Third, Jesus’ resurrection is explicitly dated by the angel to “the third day” (Luke 24:7), a phrase used by the two disciples going to Emmaus to date their encounter with the resurrected Lord (verse 7).

Reply:
Re: <a phrase used by the two disciples>
Luke 24:
3 two men stood by them (the women) in shining garments: 5And as they (the women) were afraid and bowed down their faces to the earth, they (the two men) said unto them (the women), Why seek ye the living among the dead? 6 He is not here, but is risen: remember how HE spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee, 7 saying, The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.

Who, do you, Rodrigues, say, was it who <explicitly dated .. the phrase .. to “the third day” .. a phrase used to date their encounter with the resurrected Lord>? Was it <the two angels>? Or <the two disciples>? Or was it <Luke> whom you quote in <24:7>?

Not, Jesus? Who spoke, “6 when He was yet in Galilee, 7 saying, The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and, the third day rise again.”

How much did you pay for your certificate, Rodrikus?