[reed13k]

I struggle with where Easter falls. On the one hand the good book states that Jesus died on Friday, as they had to rush to get him entombed prior to the passover, which starts at sundown on Friday in the Jewish faith. It also states 3 days from death to resurrection, like Jonah in the whale. But there aren’t 3 days between Friday night and Sunday morning, so I wonder if perhaps it’s either partial days or if he really rose on Tuesday... In the end it’s a minor issue as what’s important is He rose...but it’s always made me wonder.

[reed13k]

duh - sabbath not passover...sigh

[one Lord one faith one baptism]

Jews count days as follows -

today is day
tomorrow is day 2
the day after tomorrow is day 3

See Luke 13 for confirmation of this.

so, if Jesus was to rise “on the third day”, and the third day was the first day of the week ( sunday ), here is how it calculates:

friday - day 1
saturday - day 2
sunday - the third day

Jews also counted any part of a day, as a whole day.

when Jesus said he would be in the heart of the earth for “ three days and three nights”, it was an idiomatic expression that the Jews who heard it knew meant three days.

hope that helps.

[Salvation]

At that time they counted partial days as full days.

Friday
Saturday
Sunday

[Oratam]

Another confirmation is that Christ died on the sixth day of the week and lay in the tomb on the seventh--the day the Lord rested having created the heaven and the earth.

Christ rose the following day, the first day of a new creation.