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Matthew 12:40..... For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

With that being said, Why do we say that Jesus died on Friday and rose from the dead first thing Sunday morning?

Matthew 28:1-7 states that He rose at the dawn of the first day of the week, but where do we get that He died on Friday? This does not justify 3 days and 3 nights.

Thanks for your help

There is a good magazine article on this subject called "CRUCIFIXION WEDNESDAY?" by James Akin: LINK

What day of the week did he die?
Excellent thread. The confusion on this subject is staggering.
The proof that Christians dont question what they hear, is so evident in the day of His death.
The Jewish sabbath is Saturday not Sunday. When they went to the tomb on the first day of the week He was not there He was already risen. These are simple facts that anyone can follow. Take a little time to search history and you will find that the custom of the times must be understood.
If He rose on the Saturday count backwards three days and three nights, what do you come up with? It could not have happened on Friday thats impossible. More fables past down through the ages, where people dont take the time to see if its true or not.
They just follow custom and traditions!
What do choclate chickens, chocolate bunnies, chocolate eggs have to do with the death of Christ. Nothing but Pagan customs handed down through the ages!
This shows how simple it is to fool people about Jesus death.

He could not have been crucified on Friday.
May God bless your study of His holy bible

What day did he die?
Read Matt 28 again carefully it does not say He rose on the first day of the week.
Actually it says they went to the tomb on the first day of the week and the angel said He is already risen before the first day of the week!

Mat 28:6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
He was not there on the first day of the week, the angels say He is already risen.
May God bless your study of His Holy Bible.

Scripture repeatedly tells us that Jesus was crucified on "the day of preparation," which was the first-century Jewish way of referring to Friday, the day of preparation for the Sabbath. This is why the women were not able to anoint his body before he was buried—because Jesus was hurriedly buried late in the afternoon, just as the Sabbath was beginning. The women thus had to rest until the Sabbath was over (Luke 23:56).

We are also told that the Jewish leaders asked Pilate to order the legs of the crucifixion victims broken so they would die faster (from.asphyxiation due to an inability to push themselves up on their crosses and take a breath), "in order to prevent the bodies from remaining on the cross on the Sabbath" (John 19:31).

Some advocates of a Wednesday crucifixion concede that Jesus was crucified on the day before a Sabbath, but deny that this was the regular, weekly Sabbath. In later times, the phrase "day of preparation" came to be used to refer to the day before Passover and, this argument goes, Passover counted as a Sabbath in the sense that it was a day of rest, even though it usually did not fall on the weekly Sabbath. Thus Jesus was crucified on the day before Passover and had to be buried hurriedly on that account.

But this explanation will not do. In the first century, "the day of preparation" referred to Friday, not the day before Passover. Further, we know from Scripture that the Sabbath following Jesus’ crucifixion was the regular, weekly Sabbath, the seventh day of the week: "Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the sepulcher" (Matt. 28:1).

We can thus reconstruct the chronology of the crucifixion, death, and Resurrection of Christ as follows:

Friday, the Day of Preparation: Jesus is crucified with two thieves. From noon to three in the afternoon, a darkness covers the land (Matt. 27:45). Then, "[s]ince it was the Day of Preparation, in order to prevent the bodies from remaining on the cross on the Sabbath . . . the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away" (John 19:31). Then Joseph of Arimathea obtains Jesus’ body and buries it: "It was Preparation Day [that is, the day before the Sabbath]. So as evening approached, Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Council, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body" (Mark 15:42-43, NIV).

Saturday, the Sabbath: "On the Sabbath they [the women] rested according to the commandment" (Luke 23:56b). Also on this day, "that is, after the Day of Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate" and asked for a guard to be placed on the tomb (Matt. 27:62).

Sunday, the first day of the week: "Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the sepulcher" and found that Jesus had risen from the dead (Matt. 28:1).

It is amazing to me how people try to make the Bible say what they want.
If you say He died on the Friday then please explain how He was three days and three nights in the grave . People totally ignore the scriptures just to prove thier point. No matter what day you say He was Put in the grave there has to be three days and nights belore he rises. Twisting scriptures to prove your point denies three days and three nights. Under these circumstances The crucification could not possibly Be Friday.
May God bless you study of His Holy bible.

Originally Posted by Joshua888

It is amazing to me how people try to make the Bible say what they want.......

Whats amazing to me is that you make that accusation, yet do not provide one scripture reference, while I provided many.

Originally Posted by Joshua888

....If you say He died on the Friday then please explain how He was three days and three nights in the grave......

In the Bible, parts of time units were frequently counted as wholes. Thus a king might be said to have reigned for two years, even if he reigned for only fourteen months. In the same way, a day and a night does not mean a period of twenty-four hours. It can refer to any portion of a day coupled with any portion of a night. The expression "three days and three nights" could be used as simply a slightly hyperbolic way of referring to "three days."

As Protestant Bible scholar R. T. France notes: "Three days and three nights was a Jewish idiom to a period covering only two nights" (Matthew, 213).

Similarly, D. A. Carson, regarded as one of the deans of conservative Protestant Bible exegesis, explains: "In rabbinical thought a day and a night make an onah, and a part of an onah is as the whole. . . . Thus according to Jewish tradition, ‘three days and three nights’ need mean no more than ‘three days’ or the combination of any part of three separate days" (Expositor’s Bible Commentary, 8:296).

If Jesus was crucified and died Friday afternoon, that would be the first day; at sundown on Friday the second day would begin; then at sundown on Saturday the third day would begin. So Jesus was indeed "raised on the third day" (Matt. 20:19).

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Originally Posted by Joshua888

What day of the week did he die?
Excellent thread. The confusion on this subject is staggering.
The proof that Christians dont question what they hear, is so evident in the day of His death.
The Jewish sabbath is Saturday not Sunday. When they went to the tomb on the first day of the week He was not there He was already risen. These are simple facts that anyone can follow. Take a little time to search history and you will find that the custom of the times must be understood.
If He rose on the Saturday count backwards three days and three nights, what do you come up with? It could not have happened on Friday thats impossible. More fables past down through the ages, where people dont take the time to see if its true or not.
They just follow custom and traditions!
What do choclate chickens, chocolate bunnies, chocolate eggs have to do with the death of Christ. Nothing but Pagan customs handed down through the ages!
This shows how simple it is to fool people about Jesus death.

He could not have been crucified on Friday.
May God bless your study of His holy bible

An objective study that clears the Christian confusion for this topic can be found at this link. you just have to add the usual characters to the begining.

thedeathandresurection.com/pdf/death%20and%20resurrection%20time%20line.pdf