[Diego1618]

If "mia sabbaton" meant the Sabbath day, then this passage would be saying: "Now late on the sabbath day, as it began to dawn toward the sabbath day..." - which would be nonsense. No, what Matthew is telling us here is that the week was at an end. And what comes next? The first day of the week.

First of all....a correction in Greek terms. The word is not Sabbaton (σάββατον)....it is Sabbatwn (σαββάτων) and it is plural!

The first word in [Matthew 28:1] is Ὀψὲ and it is generally translated as "After" in many bibles but it mainly references time here so the correct translation is "Late".

Here is the correct translation for [Matthew 28:1] And on the later of the Sabbaths, at the dawn to one of the Sabbaths, came Mary the Magdalene, and the other Mary, to see the tomb,

There were two (2) Sabbaths crucifixion week....with a day in between them. The First was the High Sabbath of Unleavened Bread and the second....the weekly Sabbath.

The women are arriving to an empty tomb (at sunrise) on the first weekly Sabbath between Pesach and Shavuot.

[LearsFool]

Regarding the day on which Jesus was raised: Not wanting to rehash that never-ending Seventh Day Adventist debate :-), arraying Greek/Hebrew scholar against scholar (Vine, Thayer, Lightfoot, Robertson, Vincent, et al, vs. Young), I'll note a few things and then leave you with it:

The women "followed after, and beheld the tomb, and how his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments. And on the sabbath they rested according to the commandment." (Luke 23:55-56) So Jesus was still in the tomb on the Sabbath. The following morning they found the tomb empty.

On the day He was raised, "two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was threescore furlongs from Jerusalem" - a distance prohibited to travel on the Sabbath. So Jesus was not raised on the Sabbath.

Mark's account uses two different Greek expressions referring to the first day of the week on which Jesus was raised, in 16:2 (day one of the week of seven) and 16:9 (the first of the week of seven). Now either (A) Jesus was raised on two different days, (B) Mark made an error, or (C) Jesus was raised on the first day of the week just as Mark says.

Paul's instructions to the Macedonian and Corinthian disciples was that they lay by in store on the first day of the week. Now unless he meant for them to do so only once a year (when two Sabbaths fall near or next to one another), this day falls every week. (Just as "kata" indicates.) It's the day which follows immediately after the obsoleted Jewish Sabbath.

And now back to our regularly scheduled broadcast: A discussion of vain worship and how to avoid it. :-)