Shalom AFraizer, a point well taken, and one that i tried in vain to make myself. The problem I have is, even though the documented or historical practice in counting from the morrow after the Sabbath was starting the count from the High Day (Megas) Sabbath, I do not agree with this "tradition." As you know, I believe the count must start from the morrow of the WEEKLY Sabbath, as Joshua 5 indicates (they were eating from the produce of the land on the morrow after the 14th, on the 15th day of the 1st month, NOT the 16th).
One of the arguments that "traditionalists" have brought forth in debunking a separate Sabbath that fell during Passion Week, is that a "megas" Sabbath, which John spoke of in John 19:31, would only be a "megas" Sabbath IF the 15th fell ON the weekly Sabbath. My whole contention is that the "megas" day, which John says was a Sabbath, fell by itself from Wednesday sunset to Thursday sunset, giving a "work" day that fell BETWEEN the two Sabbaths.
Now, I would like to ask you the same question I asked Der Alter (which he has failed to address on two occasions - Post #
777 & Post #
1179). Is the "megas" day that John refers to in John 7:37, a "megas" day because it is a FEAST day (the LAST day of the Feast), or because this Feast day ALSO fell on the weekly Sabbath, in the way traditionalists think what happened in John 19:31?
Please note that Yeshua's half-brothers (James, Joses, Simon, & Judas - Matthew 13:55), did not believe in Him (John 7:5), and challenged Him to reveal Himself "openly" at the Feast of Tabernacles (John 7:2-4). Yeshua goes up to the Feast "in secret" (John 7:10), and about half way through the Feast, He went into the Temple and taught (John 7:14). Then we come to John 7:37. In it we find out several things, it is the LAST day of the Feast of Tabernacles, AND it is ALSO
that "megas" day of the Feast. So my question to you AFraizer, is this LAST day of the Feast of Tabernacles,
that "megas" day, a "megas" day BECAUSE it was the LAST day of the Feast of Tabernacles (Leviticus 23:36, Leviticus 23:39, Numbers 29:35), or because this Last Day of the Feast fell on the weekly Sabbath, like traditionalists think happened in John 19:31?
Is not this LAST day of the Feast of Tabernacles, just like the FIRST & LAST days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, "megas" days, all on their OWN, making them Sabbaths (for
that Sabbath was a "megas" day)? Blessings in The Name, ImAHebrew.