However, every place else the chronology of the resurrection is mentioned, it is on the third day. Not the fourth.
Your timeline is based purely and solely on your personal interpretation of one verse. I ask again: why does Matthew 12:40 have more authority than Matthew 20:19?
If we are to accept your thesis that Matthew 12:40 overrules Matthew 20:19, we need to know why.
Let us set the record straight. I did NOT write Matthew 12:40 and the WORDS recorded say the following.
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
This is Christ speaking, not me, and there is NO need for anyone to interpret what is said. IT is a declaration, plain and simple.
Matthew 20:19 does NOT change the three days and three nights as was Jonah in the whale's belly. Day three would be on Saturday right up until the clock struck the instant of the sun setting. The NEW day (first day of the week) began AT sun set.
And given the night after the cruifixation was a 'holy' day the burial staff would have done everything they could to have Him entombed BEFORE the 'sun set'.
I’m with you, wideawake. Jesus rose the the third day not the fourth. No small point as this is the GOSPEL, 1 Cor. 15 makes it part of the gospel message, verse four says,
1 Cor 15:4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
The answer to the three days and nights, this was a Jewish idiom. Any part of the day standing for the whole day (and night).
Here is another point. The early church fathers, without exception, said that Jesus rose on the third day, making the first day of the week to be commemorative of Jesus’ resurrection.
They would have understood Jewish idioms a lot better than these modern day interpreters. They lived almost two thousand years closer to the resurrection event than these modern day interpreters. I’d follow them before I would these modern day Sabbatarians.