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The Sign of Jonah
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Nowhere do the Scriptures tell us that Y???shua was crucified and died on a Friday!

Shocking I know.

What they do say though is that He was crucified on???."The day before the Sabbath", (Mark 15:42; Luke 23:54; John 19:14, 31, 42).

As the weekly Sabbath was Sundown Friday to Sundown Saturday, people have assumed that Y???shua was crucified on a Friday.

But we know that the Scriptures bear abundant testimony that their were other Sabbaths beside the weekly Sabbath.

The first day of the Passover week for instance, no matter what day of the week it came, was always a Sabbath.

"And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein" (Leviticus 23:6, 7).

On the seventh day of this feast, the 21st of Nisan, was another Sabbath:

" . . . in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein" (Leviticus 23:8).
The day of Pentecost was a Sabbath Numbers 28:26. This is the reason we read about Sabbaths in the plural number in the Old Testament Leviticus 26:2, 34, 35, 43.

The Scriptures makes it plain; Y???shua was crucified and buried on:

" . . . the preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath" (Mark 15:42).

John tells us: "And it was the preparation of the Passover" (John 19:14).

It was the preparation for the Holy Day, the Night to Be Much Remembered, the 14th of Nisan John 13:1, 29; 18:28.

It was the preparation to keep the Passover Sabbath, the annual Sabbath, which always came on the 15th day of the first ecclesiastical month. John 19:31 adds: " . . . (for that Sabbath day was an high day) . . . ."

Its greatness was due to the fact that it was the annual Sabbath of the Passover Festival.

So, there were Two Sabbaths that Week...

Matthew makes it plain that two Sabbaths had passed since Y???shua was crucified.

The KJV has this rendering: "In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre" (Matthew 28:1).

On this verse nearly all translators have allowed tradition to control their translation. It is not "Sabbath" but "Sabbaths" plural in the Greek text (the genitive case and the plural number).

The verse properly translated would read: "In the end of the sabbaths . . . ."

This allows for an annual Sabbath on Thursday and a regular Sabbath on Saturday.

Also, when Y???shua was buried near sundown on the day of the Passover, "Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary"
Watched the burial. Matthew 27:58-61.

Immediately after the burial, Luke says: "And that day was the preparation, and the Sabbath drew on" (Luke 3:54).

This Sabbath was an annual Sabbath on Thursday. The day after the annual Sabbath the women bought spices, Mark 16:1.

Luke tells us that the women, after preparing the spices on Friday, " . . . Rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment" (Luke 23:56).

The traditional interpretation makes Mark and Luke contradict each other.

In Mark 16:1 we are informed that the Sabbath was past when the spices were purchased. "Had" is inserted without any authority from the Greek text.

"No reason can be given for the variation--bought sweet spices. Not "had bought" (An American Commentary on the New Testament, Vol. 11, p. 251).

In Luke 23:56 we are told that the women prepared the spices and ointments, and rested the Sabbath day.

If Y???shua lay in the tomb on Sabbath only, Mark and Luke contradict each other. But if He lay there two Sabbaths having a workday between them, then Mark and Luke harmonize to perfection!

So, When does the Scriptures say that Y'shua rose from the dead?

The two Mary's came to the tomb: "In the end of the Sabbath" (Matthew 28:1).

The Sabbath always ended at sunset: "From even unto even, shall ye celebrate your Sabbath" (Leviticus 23:32).

When they went to the tomb before sunrise on the first day of the week. Y???shua had already risen from the dead before their arrival. Matthew 28:1-8. Mark 16:2

According to the Scriptures then, Y???shua arose sometime after sunset on Saturday evening and before the Sun came up the next morning on the 1st day of the week (Sunday).

The two Mary???s saw Him, heard Him speak, and held His feet just when the Sabbath ended and the first day of the week was beginning.

"In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week . . ." (Matthew 28:1).

Mark 16:9 tells us Y???shua first appeared to Mary Magdalene early, the first day of the week, which was sometime between Saturday evening just after sundown when the 1st day of the week began and before the sun rose the next morning while it was still dark.

The nearer after sunset this happened, the earlier in the first of the week it was.

Mark does not say that she was alone at the time she first saw Jesus, and Matthew tells us that: "the other Mary was with her" (Matthew 28:1).

The Date of the Crucifixion

Having shown from Matthew 28:1 that Y'shua rose from the grave sometime between when the Sabbath ended at sunset and the first day of the week began, then this would put the crucifixion on Wednesday at sunset just as the preparation day ended and the annual Passover Sabbath commenced.

According to the Gospel writers, Y???shua died at the ninth hour (3:00 p.m. our time) and was buried about sunset that same day, Luke 23:44, 45, 50-54; Mark 15:33-38, 42-47.

If Y???shua were buried at sunset on Wednesday night and arose at sunset on Saturday, He fulfilled the Sign of Jonah.

He would have been in the tomb Wednesday night, Thursday night, and Friday night--a full "three days".

All together a full "three days and three nights." Thus we have a literal fulfillment of the words of Y???shua in Matthew 12:40.

Hence there is no need to follow a flawed tradition.

". . . He rose again the third day according to the scriptures" (1Corinthians 15:4), Not the second day according tradition!


Some Scriptures speak of His resurrection "after three days" (Mark 8:31; 9:31 R. V.; 10:34 R. V.; Matthew 27:63).

Other verses say "three days" (Matthew 26:60, 61; 27:39, 40; Mark 14:58; 15:29, 30; John 2:19, 20).

Still others speak of "the third day" (Matthew 16:21; 17:23; 20:19; 27:64; Luke 9:22; 18;33; 24:6, 7, 21, 46; Acts 10:40; 1 Corinthians 16:4).

Some make much over "the third day" in Luke 24:21, and they affirm that if the crucifixion took place on Wednesday, Sunday would be the fourth day since these things were done.

But the answer is simple.

These things were done just as Thursday was beginning at sunset on Wednesday.

They were therefore completed on Thursday, and the first day since Thursday would be Friday, the second day since Thursday would be Saturday, and "the third day since" Thursday would be Sunday, the first day of the week.

So the supposed objection in reality supports the Wednesday crucifixion.

But if the crucifixion took place on Friday, by no manner of reckoning could Sunday be made "the third day since" these things were done.

Unless we believe the Scriptures contain errors, we know that all passages must harmonize.

Therefore, "after three days" must mean the same as "the third day" Matthew 16:21.

There is nothing in the Scriptures to favor a Friday crucifixion of Y???shua.

The biblical record harmonizes with a Wednesday crucifixion and a Saturday evening Resurrection--a full 72 hours.

This view allows for a literal interpretation of "three days and three nights."

It also allows for the word "after three days" to mean just that.

It proves that Y???shua fulfilled the Sign of Jonah and thus proved His Messiahship to a wicked and adulterous generation.



This piece below makes it very concise: I found it on <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.gotquestions.org">www.gotquestions.org</a><!-- w -->

Question: "On what day was Jesus crucified?"

Answer: The Bible does not specifically state which day of the week Jesus was crucified. The two most widely held views are Friday and Wednesday.

Jesus said in Matthew 12:40, "For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."

Those who argue for a Friday crucifixion say that there is still a valid way in which He could have been considered in the grave for three days. In the Jewish mind of the First Century, a part of day was considered as a full day. Since Jesus was in the grave for part of Friday, all of Saturday, and part of Sunday???He could be considered to have been in the grave for three days. One of the principal arguments for Friday is found in Mark 15:42 that notes that Jesus was crucified "the day before the Sabbath." If that was the weekly Sabbath, i.e. Saturday, then that fact leads to a Friday crucifixion. Another argument for Friday says that verses such as Matthew 16:21 and Luke 9:22 teach that Jesus would rise on the third day; therefore, He wouldn't need to be in the grave a full three days and nights. But while some translations use "on the third day" for these verses, not all do and not everyone agrees that that is the best way to translate these verses. Furthermore, Mark 8:31 says that Jesus will be raised "after" three days.


The Wednesday position 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 Lev 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 Saturday. 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" (Luke 23:56). 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 were 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, this view states, the only explanation that does not violate the biblical account of the women and the spices and holds to a literal understanding of Matthew 12:40, is 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. He was buried near sundown on Wednesday, which began Thursday in the Jewish calendar. Using a Jewish calendar, you have Thursday night (night one), Thursday day (day one), Friday night (night two), Friday day (day two), Saturday night (night three), Saturday day (day three). We don't know exactly when He rose, but we do know that it was before sunrise on Sunday (John 20:1, Mary Magdalene came "while it was still dark" and the stone was rolled away and she found Peter and told him that "they have taken away the Lord out of the tomb"), so He could have risen as early as just after sunset Saturday evening, which began the first day of the week to the Jews.

A possible problem with the Wednesday view is that the disciples who walked with Jesus on the road to Emmaus did so on "the same day" of His resurrection (Luke 24:13). The disciples, who do not recognize Jesus, tell Him of Jesus' crucifixion (24:21) and say that "today is the third day since these things happened" (24:22). Wednesday to Sunday is four days. A possible explanation is that they may have been counting since Wednesday evening at Christ's burial, which begins the Jewish Thursday, and Thursday to Sunday could be counted as three days.

In the grand scheme of things, it is not all that important to know what day of the week Christ was crucified. If it were very important, then God's Word would have clearly communicated the day. What is important is that He did die, and that He physically, bodily rose from the dead. What is equally important is the reason He died???to take the punishment that all sinners deserve. John 3:16 and 3:36 both proclaim that believing, or putting your trust, in Him results in eternal life!


Also in doing some research I found this article that is interesting where a 3rd scenario is proposed... <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.direct.ca/trinity/crucified.html">http://www.direct.ca/trinity/crucified.html</a><!-- m -->

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The Sign of Jonah - by Thirdwoe - 11-01-2008, 12:08 AM
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