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"Good Friday" was made up by the Pope. The Crucifixion happened on a Wednesday. Jesus said in Matthew that the only proof He would give that He was the Messiah was that He would be in the earth three days and three nights, just the same as Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days and three nights. Friday evening to the wee hours of Sunday morning is not three days and three nights by any stretch of the imagination. Friday is when the women bought the spices, as in one account, they had to wait until after a sabbath to buy them, and in another account, they bought them before a sabbath. Thursday was a feast day treated as a sabbath. Saturday was the Sabbath. The women came to the open tomb on Sunday morning (the first day of the week) while it was still dark. The tomb was already open, the soldiers had already fled, and everything was quiet. For Jesus' words to be true, He was put in the tomb just before sunset on Wednesday, the start of Thursday's sabbath. He arose and left the tomb at the end of the Sabbath, at sunset on Saturday. This is the Biblical timeline given in plain black and white.
Some people say "on the third day," but they don't realize that it used to be that the current day wasn't counted in that.
BTW, today is when my father always planted potatoes and peas in our garden. People would ask him if there were signs or something he went by. He said he only did it because he had the day off from work.
"Three days and three nights" is a Jewish idiom meaning any part of three days. Jewish tradition counted any part of a day as a full day (e.g., Esther 4:16-5:1).
The women prepared spices before the Sabbath (Luke 23:56) and may have bought additional spices after the Sabbath (Mark 16:1). The "Sabbath" mentioned is the weekly Saturday Sabbath. The idea of a "high day" Thursday Sabbath (John 19:31) is speculative and not required by the text.
Sunday is "the third day." Read Luke 24.
"Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre." This is Sunday, continue reading until you get to the encounter on the road to Emmaus - "two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus" Now read down to verses 20-21 - "And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him. But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done."
Sunday is included in the three days here. Even if one was to grant that the crucifixion day should not be counted in these three days (which does not align with Jewish tradition), it is impossible to synchronize this verse with a Wednesday crucifixion. If the crucifixion day is included, it would fall on Friday, if not, it would fall on Thursday at the earliest, not Wednesday.
The Emmaus account definitively rules out a Wednesday crucifixion.
All completely wrong. Even the version of the Bible you use is incorrect. It changes the very sense of the sentences. "Very early in the morning" is definitely not at all like the KJV "while it was yet dark." Yours implies after sunrise, while the older version says before sunrise. That's just one thing.
What? My version is the KJV. What "older" version are you using?
Regardless, it does not matter. You do not understand the concept of a day to a Jew. The day begins and ends at sundown, not sunrise. Just before sunrise, just after sunrise, both are the same day. Sunday. The first day of the week. You can not get around this.
P.S. Just curious, are you a KJV-Onlyist? If so that was an epic self-own, kek.
fly in the ointment, right here ^^^