MY RESPONSE IN REGARD TO A HIGH DAY PREPARATION

[Doug]

[John 19:30 KJV] "When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost." *********** This is Thursday and Jesus dies 3PM
[John 19:31 KJV] "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." ********** They were going to break his legs because it was the preparation for the first day of the feast of unleavened bread. This was a high day and a special preparation day during this passover feast.
[John 19:38 KJV] "And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave [him] leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus." ********** this just establishes the timeline that Joseph came right after Jesus was crucified.

[Mark 15:42 KJV] "And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath," ************ Mark here clearly identifies that it is now Friday, the preparation day before the Saturday sabbath. This preparation day could not be the same preparation as in John 19:31 because the preparation day in John was the day BEFORE THIS FRIDAY, NOT SATURDAY.
[Mark 15:43 KJV] "Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus." ************ If it's now Friday, after Thursday's sunset, and Joseph begged his body, this means Jesus was crucified before Thursday's sunset. Before Thursday's sunset makes it a Thursday.
[Luke 23:53 KJV] "And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid."
[Luke 23:54 KJV] "And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on." *********** This the Friday preparation before the Saturday sabbath.
[Luke 23:55 KJV] "And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid."
[Luke 23:56 KJV] "And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment." ******* they rested on the Saturday sabbath.

[Matthew 27:62 KJV] "Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate," *********** this is now the Saturday sabbath

 

[Pilgrimer]

it was the preparation for the first day of the feast of unleavened bread

Jesus and the disciples ate the first passover meal on Thursday evening, the beginning of Nisan 15 and the first day of unleavened bread.

He was crucified the next day, Friday, the preparation day for the weekly Sabbath (still Nisan 15 and still the first day of unleavened bread). The Pharisees would not enter the Praetorium that Friday morning because they would be defiled and would not able to eat the second passover meal on Friday night, the beginning of Nisan 16 and the second day of unleavened bread. There were seven meals altogether that were eaten during the week of passover.

There was no preparation day required before the feast days, the Torah allowed the work necessary to prepare the feast to be done on the day of the feast. (Exodus 12:16) The only day on the Jewish calendar when all preparations needed to be made the day before was the weekly Sabbath, when no work of any kind could be done, not even the work necessary to prepare the feast. That had to be done by sunset Friday. But that is the only day on the Jewish calendar when all work had to be done the day before, even the work necessary to prepare meals.

There is no contradiction between John and the other three gospels. The mistake is on the part of those who assume there was only one passover meal when in fact there were seven, and the one John was referring to was the second meal eaten on Friday night after Jesus was crucified, which was the beginning of Nisan 16 and the second day of unleavened bread.

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