What day of the week was the crucifixion?

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Davy

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Well I read that stuff from the ignored member and He is blatantly wrong! How can I be so arrogantly sure?

John 19:

31 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.

it is simple grammar.

That Sabbath (Saturday) was a high day! There is never a sabbath on a thursday or Wednesday. Sabbaths are saturday. And that Saturday was a high day-passover.
Wrong. The first day of the passover feast was to be a 'high day'. That is what the John 19 passage is pointing to. And this can be CONFIRMED by COUNTING THE 3 DAYS AND 3 NIGHTS THAT LORD JESUS SAID HIS BODY WOULD BE IN THE TOMB. And that counting MUST be by the Hebrew calendar reckoning.

Therefore, you simply have not gone far enough into Bible Scripture to understand this.
 

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6th day of the week (14th day of the 1st month (Abib/Nisan)), aka 'Friday'.
Funny! :jest:


Brethren in Christ Jesus, this guy is TOYING WITH YOU! The 14th of Nisan regarding Christ's death and resurrection period WAS NOT A FRIDAY.

This can easily be understood by noting per Scripture that Lord Jesus ROSE ON A SUNDAY. And then figuring out His prophecy where He said His body would be in the tomb for 3 days and 3 nights (that per the Hebrew calendar reckoning).

The ONLY way the 3 days and 3 nights works out is if the day that Jesus was crucified was a Wednesday, and His body buried just before sunset that started the next day.


Nisan 14 -- the preparation day, the day Jesus was crucified, and buried just prior to sunset. A Wednesday.

1. Sunset Wednesday to Thursday morning -- Thursday began at sunset Wednesday and began Nisan 15th, the HIGH SABBATH of John 19. First night Jesus' body in the tomb.
2. Thursday morning to Thursday sunset -- First Day (Nisan 15)
3. Thursday sunset to Friday morning --2nd Night.
4. Friday morning to Friday sunset -- 2nd Day. (Nisan 16)
5. Friday sunset to Saturday morning -- 3rd Night.
6. Saturday morning to Saturday sunset -- 3rd Night. (Nisan 17)
7. Sunday -- Jesus rose.

The idea of the "high day" is about a Passover SABBATH per the 1st day of FEAST, and is NOT the regular weekly sabbath. The above count for the 3 days and 3 nights prophecy proves this.


Now mind you, the false Jews do not even like the idea that Lord Jesus died on the cross and was resurrected after 3 literal days and 3 literal nights. They do not believe Jesus of Nazareth is The Christ. Their Babylonian Talmud corruptions from Babylon that they follow treats Lord Jesus as a seditionist come to overthrow their government.
 
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It doesn't. Also Passover is not always on a Saturday either. REsurrection day is always on a Sunday for Jesus rose on the first day of teh week which was Sunday.
Right. Passover doesn't always fall on the same day of our calendar. But the day Lord Jesus rose is always going to be Sunday.
 
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Hello RLT63, Interesting question, Nisan 14, Thursday At That Time

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Once again, that is wrong.

The 'preparation' day was when Jesus was crucified and buried per Scripture. The preparation day is always... Nisan 14 per Old Testament commandment from God. The passover lamb was to be kept until Nisan 14, and sacrificed at evening. At sunset began the next day, (Thursday) Nisan 15, the first day of the feast, and was to be a high day.

Jesus was buried at the very end of the 'preparation' day, just prior to sunset. That's why John 19 shows they rushed to bury His body because sunset was coming. The problem many brethren have with this timing is with wrongly trying to calculate per our western calendar when the Hebrew reckoning for a day beginning at sunset to the next sunset is what MUST be used.
 
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The Day of Debt: Friday or Wednesday? – Chuck Missler – Koinonia House Can you get 3 days and 3 nights from Friday evening to Sunday morning? Matthew 12:40.

The Sabbaths​

Nowhere in the Gospels does it assert that Christ was crucified on a Friday. In Mark 15:42, it refers to “…the day before the sabbath.” This may be the root of the misunderstanding.

The Jews had other sabbaths in addition to the weekly shabbat (Saturday). In addition to the weekly sabbaths, there were seven “high sabbaths” each year, and the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the 15th of Nisan, was one of them.[4]

Further, Matthew 28:1 should read, “At the end of the sabbaths,”[5] (which is plural in the Greek), implying there was a plurality of sabbaths that week.

If Passover, the 14th of Nisan, fell earlier in the week, the 15th could have been any day prior to Saturday, the weekly sabbath. “When the sabbaths were past” would, of course, be Sunday (actually, Saturday after sundown), in accordance to the Feast of First Fruits. (Some hold to a Thursday crucifixion on a similar basis
The Wednesday opinion states that there were two Sabbaths that week. After the first one (the one that occurred on the evening of the crucifixion [Mark 15:42; Luke 23:52-54]), the women purchased spices—note that they made their purchase after the Sabbath (Mark 16:1). The Wednesday view holds that this “Sabbath” was the Passover (see Leviticus 16:29-31, 23:24-32, 39, where high holy days that are not necessarily the seventh day of the week are referred to as the Sabbath). The second Sabbath that week was the normal weekly Sabbath. Note that in Luke 23:56 the women who had purchased spices after the first Sabbath returned and prepared the spices, then “rested on the Sabbath.” The argument states that they could not purchase the spices after the Sabbath, yet prepare those spices before the Sabbath—unless there were two Sabbaths. With the two-Sabbath view, if Christ was crucified on Thursday, then the high holy Sabbath (the Passover) would have begun Thursday at sundown and ended at Friday sundown—at the beginning of the weekly Sabbath or Saturday. Purchasing the spices after the first Sabbath (Passover) would have meant they purchased them on Saturday and were breaking the Sabbath.

Therefore, according to the Wednesday viewpoint, the only explanation that does not violate the biblical account of the women and the spices and holds to a literal understanding of Matthew 12:40is that Christ was crucified on Wednesday. The Sabbath that was a high holy day (Passover) occurred on Thursday, the women purchased spices (after that) on Friday and returned and prepared the spices on the same day, they rested on Saturday which was the weekly Sabbath, then brought the spices to the tomb early Sunday. Jesus was buried near sundown on Wednesday, which began Thursday in the Jewish calendar. Using a Jewish calendar, you have Thursday day (day one). Thursday night (night one), Friday day (day two), Friday night (night two), Saturday day (day three), Saturday night (night three). We do not know exactly what time He rose, but we do know that it was before sunrise on Sunday. He could have risen as early as just after sunset Saturday evening, which began the first day of the week to the Jews. The discovery of the empty tomb was made just at sunrise (Mark 16:2), before it was fully light
 
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