[SIZE=16pt]Matthew 27:62-64, "62 Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate. 63 Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. 64 Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first."[/SIZE]
[SIZE=16pt]Re:[/SIZE]
[SIZE=16pt]“After three days I will rise again. 64 Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=16pt]What is this saying? Just what it says! It says “the third day” is "the third day" Jesus spoke about … not so? Of course![/SIZE]
[SIZE=16pt]The day Jesus spoke about when He said what? When he said “After three days I will rise again” of course! [/SIZE]
[SIZE=16pt]“the day that followed the day of the preparation” was “the third day” Jesus spoke about— “the third day” He said He would rise “ON”, “IN”, “BY”, “WITH”, “the third day” of the “three days thick darkness” of Egypt’s last two plagues—of the Passover-of-Yahweh—, “the third day according to the Scriptures” the PASSOVER-of-Yahweh Scriptures, none other![/SIZE]
[SIZE=16pt]Therefore can “after three days” be literal? It cannot and WAS NOT literally ‘after’, three days after the day He died on! It was “the third day” after the day He died on which was “the day after The Preparation” the Sixth Day of the week. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=16pt]And the “three days” were not any arbitrary non-Scriptural days, but the PROPHETIC “three days” of Jesus’ Last Paschal-SUFFERING AND TRIUMPH. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=16pt]They said, secure the grave “until the third day WILL BE OVER”, or “as long as it IS THE, third day”. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=16pt]Matthew 26:62 DEFINES the meaning of Jesus’ own words, “after three days”. It defines those words to mean and as and FOR BEING, “the third day He said He would RISE” on again. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=16pt]One does not need to go anywhere else in the Scriptures to grasp that. It is everywhere else in Scriptures confirmed, yes. Everywhere—, so that here in Matthew 27:62 there is no exception supposedly referring to some other, imaginary, MISTAKEN AND FALSE, <<fourth day>> and not “the third day” which Jesus several times emphasised would be “the THIRD day” after his death that He would rise “ON”.[/SIZE]