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I see the logic in what you're saying. But there is also logic in the priests being especially anxious to get the bodies down before the sabbath since that sabbath was not only the sabbath, but also a high day in the festival week.Shalom Der Alter, OK, let me try to open up a little here.
For years, I have had traditional Friday to Sunday christians tell me that the reason John called THAT Sabbath a High Day "megas day" was because the Feast day and the Sabbath fell TOGETHER on the 7th day of the week. Now, even you think "it appears" that the feast day might have occurred on the Sabbath there in John 7. So here's the thing, I would like to have everyone try to get inside John's head, and reason how he was thinking.
First, when he said, "In the last day, that great [day] of the feast" do we really think he was trying to indicate that this last day of the feast was falling on the weekly Sabbath, by calling it THAT "megas" [day]? I would think that John was indicating that this LAST day of the Feast was a "megas" [day] ALL on it's own, and it had NOTHING to do at all with the weekly Sabbath.
And then we come to John 19:31. John tells us that Yeshua dies. Then he tells us that the Jews, because it was the preparation and the Sabbath was approaching, that they (the Jews) did not want the bodies to remain upon the cross on the Sabbath day. John then explains something to us, "for THAT Sabbath day was an high (megas) day." Now really try to get your head around how John was thinking. He tells us that the Jews do not want the bodies to remain on the cross on the Sabbath. Well, IF that Sabbath WAS the weekly Sabbath, then ALL he had to say was, "for that day was a Sabbath." Case closed! Do you see that? If THAT Sabbath WAS the weekly Sabbath, there would be NO reason to inform us that THAT Sabbath was a high (megas) day. Do you see? It is the ONLY reasonable option, that IF it was the weekly Sabbath, there would be no need at all to bring up or inform us about THAT Sabbath day BEING a high "megas" day. Does not this make sense Der Alter? Blessings in The Name, ImAHebrew.
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