The Final Week of Jesus' Life, a Chronology

NewTheologicalMovement.blogspot.com ^ | Mach 2012 | Father Ryan Erlenbush

[Salvation]

The final week of Jesus' life, a chronology

Father Ryan Erlenbush

Mach 2012

 

As the Church prepares to enter into Holy Week, we do well to consider the final week of Jesus’ life, from Friday to Friday. In a later post, we will look at the last twenty-four hours (from the Last Supper to the death of Jesus on the Cross) in greater detail.

It will be helpful to review the Gospel accounts given by Sts. Mark and John, the two who offer the most explicit chronology of Holy Week. See Mark 11:1 – 15:37 and also John 11:54 – 19:30.

 

The Friday before the Passion

Jesus was in the city of Ephraim, in hiding since the Jewish authorities desired to kill him. On this day (before evening), Jesus and his disciples went up to Jerusalem, before the pasch to purify themselves (John 11:55).

They spent the night in Bethany, which is very close to Jerusalem.

Saturday before the Passion

Jesus therefore, six days before the pasch, came to Bethania, where Lazarus had been dead, whom Jesus raised to life. And they made him a supper there: and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that were at table with him. Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of right spikenard, of great price, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. (John 12:1-3)

The pasch (i.e. Passover) was on a Thursday that year (beginning Thursday eve with the Passover Meal), and so six days before, that is, on Friday, Jesus came to Bethany.

The next day, which is to say, Saturday, Jesus came to the feast there and was anointed by Mary of Bethany (that is, Mary Magdalene [here]). In this first anointing, Mary pours the oil over the Savior’s feet.

This meal and anointing occurred, most probably, at the house of Lazarus known as the Lazarium.

Our Savior spent the night in Bethany.

Palm Sunday

And on the next day, Sunday (John 12:12), Jesus rode triumphantly into Jerusalem upon an ass and upon a colt, the foal of an ass. This was the first Palm Sunday, when the children of the Hebrews bearing olive branches went forth to meet the Lord, crying out and saying, “Hosanna in the highest!”

Our Lord returned to Bethany for the night.

Monday of Holy Week

On the way into Jerusalem, Jesus sees a fig tree which has born no fruit – which tree he curses in the presence of his disciples.

Upon entering the city, our Lord goes up and cleanses the Temple for the second time (he had cleansed it once already, two years ago – cf. John 2:13ff [see our article, here]).

That eve, Jesus returned to Bethany (cf. Mark 11:19).

Tuesday of Holy Week

On the way to Jerusalem, Jesus’ disciples notice that the fig tree which he had cursed the morning before has now withered. They are amazed.

Entering the Temple area, Jesus preaches extensively and answers the questions of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

It is on this day that our Lord tells the parable of the vineyard workers who kill the owner’s son who is the heir to the vineyard. Also, on this occasion, the Lord answers the questions regarding the tribute to Caesar, the resurrection of the body, the greatest commandment, and whether the Christ will be the son of David.

Further, while in the Temple, our Lord sees a widow offer two small coins and declares her gift to be greater than those of the others.

Finally, Jesus foretells the destruction of the Temple and speaks of the final judgment.

He returns that night to Bethany.

Spy Wednesday

Now the feast of pasch and of the Azymes [i.e. Unleavened Bread] was after two days [i.e. in two days' time] ... and when [Jesus] was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was at meal, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of precious spikenard: and breaking the alabaster box, she poured it out upon his head. (Mark 14:1,3)

Spending the day in retirement, our Lord attends a feast at the house of a certain Pharisee, Simon the Leper. During this meal, Mary of Bethany (i.e. the Magdalene [here]) again anoints our Lord, but this time upon his head.

Update: I am aware of the fact that there is a good deal of diversity among the Church Fathers on whether Mary anointed Jesus on Spy Wednesday. I side partially with Origen, Chrysostom, and Theophylus (against Augustine and Gregory) in affirming that there were two anointings, one on Saturday and another on Wednesday; but then agree with Augustine and Gregory (against Origen and Chrysostom) insofar as I claim that there was one and the same woman, Mary of Bethany who is the Magdalene. St. Thomas Aquinas did not come down on one side or the other of the question, so there is clearly room for doubt.

Update II: As I consider this further, I am beginning to lean more toward the side of Sts. Augustine and Gregory. Perhaps there was only one anointing (which would then be on Saturday) and Sts. Matthew and Mark mention it here as a way of connecting the betrayal of Judas more clearly with the incident.

Judas is now set against our Savior, and so goes to the priests to betray Jesus. And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests, to betray him to them. (Mark 14:10)

Because it was this evening that Judas conspired against Jesus, the day is called “Spy Wednesday”.

Holy Thursday

Now on the first day of the unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the pasch, the disciples say to him: Whither wilt thou that we go, and prepare for thee to eat the pasch? (Mark 14:12)

Because the Passover meal would be consumed Thursday evening, Jesus sent his disciples to make the preparations for the pasch. They went from Bethany to Jerusalem and prepared the upper room.

On this evening, Jesus offered the Last Supper in which he instituted both the Eucharist and the Priesthood. Upon finishing the meal, our Lord and his apostles (excepting Judas, who left early) sang a hymn and then went forth to the Mount of Olives.

On this night, our Lord suffered the agony in the garden and was arrested. Jesus spends the night locked in the dungeon of the house of Caiaphas, after undergoing a secret night-trial by the Sanhedrin.

Good Friday

It was on Friday that our Lord suffered and died. Condemned to death at 10am, nailed to the Cross at noon, and dying at 3pm.

Christ was buried before 5pm and, the stone being rolled across the entrance, all departed.

 

[Errant]

and i will pray for those who reject the new covenant in his blood and still think they can be justified by keeping the law of Moses.

As someone who brought up the whole false witness thing, you should consider your words more carefully...

You obviously have no clue what I accept or reject and if we had a less partial RM, he/she would call you out on it...

[Alex Murphy]

oLofob: ...i will pray for those who reject the new covenant in his blood and still think they can be justified by keeping the law of Moses.

E: You obviously have no clue what I accept or reject and if we had a less partial RM, he/she would call you out on it...

"If you throw a rock into a pack of dogs, do you know how to tell which one it hits? It's the one that yelps."

[Errant]

Right... Anymore words of wisdom?

[Alex Murphy]

Right... Anymore words of wisdom?

Don't be Rood.

[Errant]

Ah, surely you can do better than that? We've all learned those kinds of insults in the first grade... lol

Why don't you give it another go, mate... ;-)

[delchiante]

I have not yet but it is my list!
.this will be long so apologies..I understand if you don’t read it all.

I have had the best, most patient teacher we can have.

No man but our High Priest is gong to get this glory!
What I am learning is counter to the world’s thinking...

I started my study with the sign of Jonah trying to figure out three days and three nights.., literal. and I used then passion week.. and the feasts in Leviticus..

And the answer kept coming back, the Gregorian and the calculated calendars are screwing people up..we just are thinking wrong..

And jonah wasn’t literal, it was a parable! Just like our Messiah used in all His talk.

Armed with His word, a Gregorian calendar, a harmony of the gospels and a concordance, I was going to defend what His word said and believe it, whatever the consequences.

Our definition of day, week, month and year we have learned have been taught by secular humanists,not the bible.

I decided to study those in Scripture and boy has the world counterfeited all of those with our ‘understanding’of time. Scripture tells us what days are, weeks are, months are and what a year is..so does the world and we follow the world.

I saw His calendar first in the feasts.. the numbering of days within the months..I could see it unfold in the passion week. I saw it in exodus before they were in the promised land.. i saw it in that first sabbath in exodus on the 22nd day after six days of manna...

The evidence was mounting up.

Then I saw His template confirmed in Ezekiel 46:1 of :

Day one in month - new moon day- scripture tells of a day where servile work was done, but no markets were open...temple open.

Day two to day seven in month - six work days.. temple was closed.

Day eight in month- seventh day sabbath . Temple open.
Repeat till new moon.

But that would make His seventh day sabbath on the eigth day? Of the month, yes...

I saw the Sabbaths being tied to the new moons and then the feasts being tied to both with scriptures and it wasn’t tied to a Gregorian week.. and there is enough scripture to support that when one uses a concordance and looks up new moons..

I saw how Jericho, a seven day march, would not violate the Sabbath if it began on the new moon day. The book of Jasher confirmed this that the march did start on the new moon day..

No way jericho doesnt hit a man made sabbath day with a Gregorian..

I saw His month as a lunar month with the new moon being the head of each month.
I saw the 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th days of His month being the seventh day Sabbaths - and it follows if I believe what God told Ezekiel.

I saw how the moon phase in our world today is average of 29.5 days..

It made sense.. on the last sabbath of the month, the 29th day, one could go out at sunset and look for the the new moon... how awesome is that!

The next day is a new moon regardless, as the count for a month is either
29 or 30 days according to the moon ...
and that is why David knew when the new moon was when he mentioned tomorrow was a new moon in scripture. Just simple counting..

if the moon wasn’t seen, amos 8:5 tells us the markets were still closed and it caused merchants to get ansty because they couldn’t peddle their goods until the first work day.. it meant there was two moon days (that just means one month had either 29 or 30 days).

His Sabbaths this gregorian month of April 2014 fits exactly because His month began on the same day as the Gregorian month- the world calls it April fools day..it was new moon day in God’s calendar. Day one of His count..

April 14th at evening was passover. The 15th, unleveaned bread, was to be a holy convocation and sabbath. As Leviticus details and the passion week confirms.

The next one will be on the 22nd of this month, Another holy convocation and sabbath ( on another Gregorian Tuesday)

Now, the Jews will not have six work days between their 15th and 22nd sabbath holy convocations, even though scripture says so.
They will work on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday..then take another sabbath.
Then work Sunday, Monday and have another holy convocatin sabbath on Tuesday, the 22nd.

But scripture says to work six days. They will only work five and actually three before they have another ‘sabbath’, this one that is the man made one created from the Gregorian calendar, saturnsday..

They are not following Leviticus or what God said to Ezekiel.
I have no idea when they will have the feast of first fruits ceremony.. it could be the 16th (yesterday) or will they have it after their Gregorian sabbath of saturnsday, and do it Sunday?

Now as a believer, wouldn’t resurrection day be accurately celebrated on the 16th, which was yesterday?
If we believe Messiah was The Word that became flesh and dwelt among us and He fulfilled the feasts, why do most christian church ignore the feasts and their timing and choose the man made Friday-Sunday tradition?

I don’t know..first fruits in Leviticus is the day after the sabbath,and the sabbath is the 15th according to scripture.

That’s why scriture called the Messiah the first fruits- he was raised on the first day of the week during the feast of unleavened bread- and according to Leviticus and God’s calendar, that is the 16th day of the month.

Almost like the entire Christian church chooses its own celebrations and holy days when you see God’s calendar on display.

I believe He was The Word and became flesh after all.. spiritual and literal fulifllments.

Now the Jews can goof His calendar up too and have two ‘first days of the week’ in their calendar because many mix their feasts days with the gregorian calendar..

Us Christians ignore those feasts days for our own , and those days like easter are not tied to God’s feasts.. and so, do we have the messiah of Israel as our savior or have we created another savior, a substitute for the one in Scripture...

Bottom line. The Gregorian robs God of His holy convocations and Sabbaths in exchange for man’s interpretations of Sabbaths and convocations and their own holy days., and scripture says this did happen with Israel before and would happen..

A conterfeiting of time that counterfeits worship..even by those who have the written oracles, whether they believe the living oracles walked amongst us..
And even by us who believe the living oracles walked amongst us and fulfilled those feasts- but now don’t tie our celebrations to the feasts..

Traditions trump scripture. Gregorian calendar trumps God’s calendar.

And all that is what brought me to issue of the stars..

I was never a man who looked up and really contemplated the sun, moon and stars as signs for me..
I am no farmer and the world told me what day it was so I was ‘good’

But I can see how Satan can’t conterfeit the signs in the sky like he can the days, weeks, months and years and holy days.

I can see the sun plays its role. And the moon plays its role.. and now, the stars could play a much more important role too.

Some could look at the entire bible and see that the entire bible plan was written in the stars way before it was ever written on paper.

Astrology is one thing.. but the study of the stars, astronomy, that was the wise man’s professions..
They knew the signs in the heavens. They knew the constellations. They knew the equinoxes.. there were no smart phones and no wall calendars..

We today know what ‘sign ‘ we were supposedly born under and even that is wrong!

Josephus, Philo and historians noted that Passover was always held when the sun was in Aries.
Because the sun in Aries(the RAM- not insignificant) meant the equinox. I am so ignorant of the stars but I am learning..
And I can count.
The seventh constellation, if Aries is the first, is Libra or ‘the scales..

Which makes a lot of sense when we look at what the day of atonement does and in the seventh month, atonement is made in Leviticus and the scales are equaled or leveled.

Those equinoxes in the spring and fall have ‘moved’ over time due to the earth’s wobble..
Aries no longer holds the equinox in the spring and Libra no longer holds the equinox in the fall.
The equinoxes are now held in Pisces ( Two fish) and Virgo( the virgin)

Now as a believer, I can see perfectly how the ‘age’ of the ‘fishers of men’ and the ‘virgin’ bride, the church, would be an ordination that only our Heavenly Father can do !
There is now no more Lamb to be sacrificed and His scales have been leveled forever.

But, I can also see that the feasts had their ‘appointed times’ and signs in the sky.
And maybe Passover is still to be held in the first month.. and that first month isn’t just reckoned by the sun and moon, but also the stars..

and until, like in Moses’ day and our Savior’s day, the sun in Aries, the first month of the year hasn’t begun.

It means this year that passover would be in May,not April. It would mean tabernacles is held in late October/November, not September/October.

The first sign of the Ram may still be the first sign Moses was to look for in the sky.it held the equinox so they knew spring had started. Pleaisdes is playing a part too but I am no astronomer,

Where I lived it snowed on passover this year. I found that funny. Spring hasn’t sprung here yet..

Maybe the scales are still to be used for the day of atonement in the seventh month.

Maybe Virgo, is always to be the sixth month of the year.. ( still a summer month, but a later summer month now)

I have a belief that scripture in places details our messiah’s birth in the month of virgo (6th month) , when we read through the new testament and revelation - I could see now that if He was born when the sun clothed the virgun and tahe moon was under her feet, that didn’t happen in the scales constellation, but the virgin...
Lots of people place it in the scales where the feast of tabernacles ( and nowhere near December 25th) would hold the sun..

I think there is enough clues in scripture that he was just 45 days old at His first Tabernacles.. not birthed then.. that is if we go by the sun, moon and stars signs.. I may only be the only one with that belief, and that’s okay..

I am curious to study the growing and harvest seasons in Israel to see if seasons have changed and growing and harvesting is still going on in late October/November nowadays because of the ‘wobble’ of the earth.

I am no farmer and I don’t live at the same parallel anyway.. but it would be interestng to see if the seasons have changed and the wobble has ‘extended’ the harvest into later fall...

I did see something interesting about Israel. There will be a second passover next month for those who missed this one.
Funny, that will be one actually celebrated when the Sun is in Aries like it was for the ancients..

Well, even us who keep saturday or sunday sabbaths ( or used to) stumble into God’s Sabbaths some times and maybe jews all stumble into the feast times too! (Not this month with the Sabbaths on gregorian Tuesdays- that is a ‘work day in the world’s system..

Oh, His Grace and Mercy is needed more than any of us can ever know. We have no idea how deceived and lawless we have been..even honestly..

Sorry for the long post.I am amazed at what I thought I knew as a ‘given’ has been proven to be counterfeit..I see how the very elect can follow after the beast and think they are worshipping our Heavenly Father and Savior..

Satan has been at work longer than we have been here and we truly are sheep..

I am hearing His voice and it is a voice that is saying come out of that system! Even if it means no church life, different job, different Sabbaths.. different holy days and even a different english transliterated name for the Messiah, Joshua, instead of what the world sees, celebrates and worships.

I see substitute days, weeks, months, years.. substitute holy days, Sabbaths and even substitute saviors.

And it all is because I asked, seeked and knocked.. and was prepared to follow Him by faith, believing God in spite of the appearances and obeying God in spite of the consequences..

I never want to go back to the counterfeit gregorian after experiencing God’s genuine timekeeping.

and it means not being a member of any church because I don’t know if there are any denominations, pastors priests, ministers, rabbis out there willing to abandon what they ‘believe’ is true for real Truth ..

We all have accepted the premise of ‘time’ and that is from the god of this world, not the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.. But His time is coming!

Have mercy on your people!

We have all inherited lies...

Again, sorry for the long post..life changed for me just two short years ago.
Who years ago this all would have been foreign gobbly gook..

And in two short years, i have been unlearning what I thought I thought I knew.. He has drawn me away from church, away from the world.. and closer to Him and His Truth.

A humbling experience!

And I will see these Rood videos in time and test them out against Scripture Truth. It is encouraging people are thinking about Him and His timekeeping..
It means people are trying to make sense of what ia gojng on in the world..

To me, the world makes complete sense because I see the world and the world system as it is: COUNTERFEIT.

When we know what genuine is, we can spot counterfeit,.

May He bless you more than He has me..

[Errant]

And in two short years, i have been unlearning what I thought I thought I knew.. He has drawn me away from church, away from the world.. and closer to Him and His Truth.

A humbling experience!

And I will see these Rood videos in time and test them out against Scripture Truth. It is encouraging people are thinking about Him and His timekeeping..

It means people are trying to make sense of what ia gojng on in the world..

To me, the world makes complete sense because I see the world and the world system as it is: COUNTERFEIT.

When we know what genuine is, we can spot counterfeit,.

May He bless you more than He has me..

That is awesome friend! Thank you for your witness! I can't wait to read your work here in its entirety. Alas, I have errands waiting for now.

We do have a lot to unlearn and much truth waiting to be discovered.

God Bless you as well. May he increase your wisdom even more and cause you to continue to share your discoveries with others.

[one Lord one faith one baptism]

errant, please re-read what i wrote.

i said i would be praying for those who reject the new covenant in his blood and still think they can be justified by keeping the law of Moses. i didn’t name anyone, if you reject the new covenant, than you will be included in my prayers.
the RM only gets involved if someone makes the post personal. my post was general in nature.
now, your saying i have no clue, that might be personal, but i am just pleased to have the conversation.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “All throughout Scripture we are NEVER commanded to mark the day on which Jesus died...<<

>> “We don’t have to. It happened at EXACTLY the time the Lamb of Passover was slaughtered - a shadow picture that occurred in Egypt, a thousand years in the making, and the observed kept ever since, before it actually occurred on the cross. Now that’s the work of the Almighty!” <<

.
It is absolutely amazing to me how many who claim to know Yeshua don’t understand this simple fact.

There is a total breakdown between the churches, and the scriptures.
.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “i said i would be praying for those who reject the new covenant in his blood and still think they can be justified by keeping the law of Moses” <<

.
That is a non-existent class, except for a portion of the catholic church.

First, the covenant was RE-NEWED in his blood, the only change being the shedding of his sinless blood.

Second, there has never been anyone that had expectation of JUSTIFICATION by the law. Justification has always been foreward looking since Adam, has always been a matter of grace, through faith sufficient to endure to the end in the righteousness obtained in edification through Torah, the law of love.

This is what Peter’s, John’s and James epistles were written to tell us. Paul’s epistles also tell us this, but many get lost in his long sentences, and side explanations, and never are able to put a cogent thought together from them.
.

[one Lord one faith one baptism]

there had to be a new covenant, since the old covenant was FULFILLED.
Jesus Christ fulfilled the old covenant and this qualified him to be the mediator of the New Covenant, a Covenant sealed by the shedding of His blood for the remission of sins.

[LurkingSince'98]

"Don't be Rood" sic? or pun def: A rood is a cross or crucifix, especially a large one in a church. Alternatively, it is a large sculpture or painting of the crucifixion of Jesus, from Old English rōd "pole", specifically "cross"... For the Greater Glory of God

[one Lord one faith one baptism]

“rood” is a reference to a false prophet that has arisen by the name of michael rood ( you tube - a rood awakening to see him in action ) rood teaches this whole yashua/keeping the sabbath/keeping the law/denies the trinity/etc/etc/ schtick and attacks historical orthodox Christian beliefs.

[roamer_1]

the REAL point is forgotten. What do we think is more important to God, the exact day of the week on which Christ was crucified or that we believe that he WAS crucified for our sins?

I will rise in mild contention with you boatbums - *no doubt* the important part is Yeshua's sacrifice, but in that, one has to determine 'who gets to tell the story'... It is my opinion that is what Yeshua was pointing to when he said he would leave but one proof to a wicked (Torah-twisting) generation. That proof authenticates the true story, and untwists the the tale, leaving those who claim authority wallowing in their lie, and it is apparent at once that their claim of authority is laid waste.

And that proof begins and ends with three days and three nights in the ground. First one finds the traditions of men to be false (it's easy - one only needs to be able to count to three)... But then, if one will dig deeper, one will find that the moed, the 'appointment', was perfectly, precisely, and incredibly fulfilled to the finest increment as *TRUE*. One then will be impelled to inquire of the rest of the moedim, the appointments made by YHWH. THEN one will see what YHWH has declared from the beginning, and in that, the proof positive that YHWH is YHWH, and that there are none like he...

All throughout Scripture we are NEVER commanded to mark the day on which Jesus died [...]

Oh, but indeed, we are. What do you think the moedim are *for*?

1Co 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
1Co 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

(e-Sword:KJV)

[one Lord one faith one baptism]

” First one finds the traditions of men to be false (it’s easy - one only needs to be able to count to three”

ok, educate me on how to count to three, but the one condition is what you say has to line up perfectly to what the Scriptures say.

please tell me on what day of “aviv” Yeshua was crucified, died and was buried on ( that has to be the same day and it will count as day one ), then please tell on what day of “aviv” did Yeshua rise from the dead on ( this will be the third day )

crucified _____ day of aviv, day one
risen on _______ day of aviv, the third day

Remember, it must match ALL the Scriptures.

[one Lord one faith one baptism]

While i wait to see what roamer comes up with ( “it’s easy” according to his own words, so it shouldn’t take long ), let’s review how Yeshua Himself counted days in Luke 13:

Luke 13:32 - and he said to them, go and tell that fox “behold, i cast out demons and perform cures TODAY and TOMORROW and THE THIRD DAY i finish my course.

Can we get a better source than Yeshua how days are counted?

According to Yeshua, THE THIRD DAY is the day after TOMORROW.
According to Yeshua, TOMORROW is the day after Today.
According to Yeshua, TODAY is day one.

This is not according to me, but YESHUA.

for those in rio linda:

today - Friday - day one - Jesus Crucified, Dies and is buried.
Tomorrow - Sabbath - day two - Jesus rests in the grave

The Third Day - Sunday - day three - Jesus rises from the dead.

[editor-surveyor]

Play all the silly games you wish, but the death and resurrection of Yeshua was in accordance with the sign of the Prophet Jonah, not with frivolous recitations from unrelated passages.

Jonah had no escape for three full days and nights, and this is in keeping with all that has been presented from astronomic data gathered with NASA tools coupled with the historic data linked in the NT. In short it all fits, unlike the catholic nonsense.

[editor-surveyor]

You do realize that nothing in the NT goes by pagan week days?

Like part of “Friday” contains the first 6 hours of Yehova’s 7th day?

And then there is the simple fact that passover did not coincide with the regular sabbath in any of the possible years of his crucifixion?

These kinds of things just won’t go away, no matter how much you prattle on.

[one Lord one faith one baptism]

crucified _____ day of aviv, day one
risen on _______ day of aviv, the third day

Remember, it must match ALL the Scriptures.

come on, for a Bible scholar such as your self, the above “silly game” should be a piece of cake!! no pagan days are mentioned, “aviv” is used ( boy i feel smarter already using Hebrew words, i think this rood fellow is on to something! )

it just requires putting two numbers down, how simple is that??

[editor-surveyor]

You obviously have no idea what you’re talking about.

The Aviv is the first month of the year. Day one of the aviv is 14 days before Passover.

Nothing you have ever posted at FR has matched any scripture.

One cannot know Yeshua without knowing his Torah, under which all things concerning him occur. Nothing in his word is understandable to one that is without Torah (anomia in your Geek text).

It requires putting the correct numbers down, that is what is tripping you up.

The most important thing that you’ve failed to grasp is that all of the events recorded as happening “on the first day of the week” refer to Yehova’s week, not Cesar’s. Using Cesar’s days they happen on Saturday evening. (not Sunday, when everyone is at work)