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Speaking of that. Ask a Jew how they count "days" in the Bible. Many people don't understand that the three days Jesus spent in the tomb was counted via the Jewish calendar. I believe "days" start either at sunset or midnight in that regard. Perhaps someone can answer that. That is why "three days" is accurate when it comes to Friday evening to Sunday morning of ressurection day...actually Thursday evening to Friday evening; Fri to Sat; Sat to Sun.

You are correct in saying that Biblical reckoning of days was from sunset to sunset. However, that does not explain the "three days" - because Yeshua [Jesus] said,

For just as Yonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea-monster,so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the depths of the earth.

The Bible never says that Yeshua was crucified on Friday. That is derived from a people who systematically removed themselves from Jewish culture and the Hebrew language. The history of "Easter" is one that came to a head in the middle of the Second Century. The controversy was partly over this (and partly over Passover). Rome won the argument mostly, and then with the Nicean Council cemented it in a mandate which outlawed all 'Christians' from celebrating Passover (look it up, it is called the Quartodecimanism Controversy).

Here is the issue. In John 19:31 it says,

Therefore, because it was the Preparation Day, that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

Since the 'Christians' of the Second Century had systematically distanced themselves from all things Jewish, they were ignorant of what the phrase "the Sabbath was a high day" meant. By the time of the days of Jerome (Fifth Century, living in Israel) the idea of a Friday crucifixion was so institutionalized that even he did not oppose it.

Ask anyone in Israel what a Shabbat [Sabbath] is and they will ask you, "weekly, or holy day?" In Leviticus 23 you can read that the first day of Pesach [Passover] is a holy day, a 'Shabbat' [Sabbath]. Not SATURDAY. It is a lunar event. The day in Scripture for the crucifixion was NOT Friday - it was the 14th day of Nisan. The next day was the 15th of Nisan - the first day of the week of Unleavened Bread (aka Passover). As for the Ressurection, it did NOT take place necessarily on what we call Sunday.

Anytime after sunset on the weekly Sabbath constitutes the "morning of the first day". Actually the Greek phrase "first day of the week" does not exist as your English Bible leads you to believe. There is no such thing. The writers always uses sabbaton [Greek transliteration of Shabbat].

So, "three days and three nights" (not three days) would make the crucifixion on Wednesday or Thursday. But I understand that messes up the whole Easter thing... so I obey the Master and celebrate Passover as He did.