There's no need to research anything as John 19:31 tells us:
31 Then the Jews, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
The parenthetical statement makes it clear jacobs well! It says that Sabbath was a "high day" do you even have a clue as to what that means?
It's you who must "do the research" because it does NOT mean there were two Sabbaths in the last week of Jesus life, as you push for. There was only one Sabbath because Jesus has died before the 2nd Sabbath. We know Jesus has died because Joseph of Arimathea get's the body of Jesus and puts it in the tomb with the women, and they rest on the Sabbath day. Knowing clearly that Jesus is dead and they observe the Sabbath after they put Him in the tomb, How are there two Sabbaths in the last week of Jesus life? There's only ONE. Luke 23:50-56, as I showed in my last post, makes it very clear Jesus is dead before the "high Sabbath". Where's the riddle?
Now...work through why it is a "high Sabbath". You *may* know why it's a high Sabbath...but there's no riddle, because Jesus is already in the grave when the Sabbath starts! There's no clue...the last week of Jesus life included one Sabbath day...He has died and is in the tomb when the "high Sabbath" starts!!!
In Matt 27:62-66- we read of the day after the preparation which most assume was the preparation for the weekly Sabbath. It was not the preparation day for the weekly Sabbath but it was the preparation day prior to the ANNUAL Sabbath of the first day of unleavened bread an high day Sabbath. Your Bible says so.
The first day of unleavened bread (a High Sabbath) always follows the Passover. The Passover in the year of Jesus death was on a Wednesday and the 1st day of ULB fell on the Thursday. there is your first Sabbath.
Jesus died on Passover Wednesday late afternoon and was buried before sunset as was the custom prior to a Sabbath.
Then, and only then, would you have your 3 days and 3 nights fulfilled when Jesus rises very late Saturday afternoon, exactly 72 hours later. By Sunday morning, pre-dawn while it was still dark, Jesus was already gone as His disciples testified.
The word for " Sabbath " in Mathew 28:1 is in the plural.
Of course, there were two Sabbaths that week: The annual High day Sabbath which fell on Thursday, and the regular weekly Sabbath, which fell on the Saturday.
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