![]() Therefore there is no reason to try and work out a literal three day/night structure. If He was killed on Wednesday (and some try to argue that He was) and raised on a Sunday then He would have been in the grave for a total of three days and four nights, so that doesn’t fit the prediction of Jesus (three days and three nights) either (again, if we are taking Jesus’ usage of “days and nights” literally. Mark makes it clear, however, that Jesus was raised on the first day of the week, Sunday ( Mark 16:9). The only way to get a literal three days and three nights would be for Jesus to be killed on Wednesday but that would mean He would have to be raised on Saturday. Those who argue for a Thursday burial will hand-wave that apparent contradiction by saying “a part of a day is a day.” And on that point all should agree whole-heartedly! More on that in a bit. Instead, according to the Thursday crucifixion defenders, He was buried for only a few hours on Thursday day, plus all of Friday and Saturday. If we’re taking Jesus literally then a day should equate to as long as a night, which would mean Jesus would need to be in the grave for three “twelve hour” days and three “twelve hour” nights. ![]() They argue that a Thursday-Sunday morning scenario allows for a true “three day and three night” burial, but it actually doesn’t since Jesus, in their scenario, is not buried until mid-way through Thursday. There’s actually a problem with their reasoning, however. A Thursday night burial would mean, as they argue, three literal days in the tomb and three literal nights in the tomb (Thursday, Friday, Saturday) followed by a resurrection on Sunday morning just before sunrise. Those who push for a Thursday crucifixion and burial do so because they take Jesus’ prediction to be buried “three days and three nights” ( Matthew 12:40) literally. No one disputes the resurrection happening on Sunday morning, since Mark (among others) makes it very clear that it occurred on the “first day of the week” ( Mark 16:9). ![]() Though some argue for a Thursday death, followed by a burial lasting from Thursday night to Sunday morning, the most commonly accepted view (based around when the Passover fell that year and so forth) is that Jesus was killed on Friday afternoon and buried until rising on Sunday morning. So…here’s a more detailed explanation (with a chart below) to better make sense of it… I said in class that I wished I had my trusty marker board because it’s much easier to chart these things visually than it is just with words. Sunday in Bible Class we talked, among other things, about which day it was in which Jesus died.
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