That Jesus was crucified Friday is undeniable. That Sunday is the third day is undeniable...............
Actually the Friday crucifixion is not only deniable it is untenable. The same is true for the Sunday morning resurrection.
Jesus was in the grave for exactly 72 hours - just as He said.
The basic mistakes made are not seeing that the "high day" sabbath was not the weekly sabbath -- and failing to see the prophetic fulfillment of the events in the exodus from Egypt.
Jesus was crucified on Wed. and placed in the grave at twilight. He was resurrected on Saturday at twilight just as He said He would be.
In one account the disciples rested on the Passover sabbath (Thursday) and then bought spices to anoint Him after the sabbath was done (Friday). In another account they bought spices and then rested on the sabbath. There are no errors in scripture and God has bracketed these event in in such a way that there can be no mistaking how they occurred.
The women went to the tomb on Sunday while it was still dark knowing that the guards would have been gone even if they had not run away on Saturday evening when the events of the resurrection took place.
Our true high priest's first fruits wave offering of the resurrection went into the city and appeared to many during the hours of darkness between the resurrection and the discovery of the empty tomb - while the Lord preached to the spirits in prison before emptying Paradise and taking them to the presence of God now that the work of Calvary made them completely acceptable to enter His presence.
It's a all very simple once you decide that the tradition of the church is not necessarily the truth.
Look at the events of the Exodus including dates such as the taking of the lamb into the households (on the day of the month which, as it turns out, was a weekly sabbath - fully fulfilled on "Palm Saturday"). Look at the 3 days on the Egyptian side of the Red Sea and the crossing during darkness. Look at Pharaoh's discovery of that crossing at dawn and God's open show of him and his forces at dawn (the type of which was fulfilled with the open show of Satan by the Lord).
Read Leviticus 23 as well as those pertinent chapters in the book of Exodus.
It's all rather simple to understand and quite inspiring when you see exactly how the Lord fulfilled this most important prophecy in scripture.
This lazy study and quite silly Friday crucifixion scenario - makes a mockery of something the Lord meant to be very clear for us and cause us to worship Him and rest in the assurance given to us by His sovereign control over the events of history.
Obviously this is just a quick overview of the most minute and magnificently fulfilled prophecy in scripture.
Get into the Word folks.
There are no errors in it (as would be the case in spades if the Lord was crucified on Friday).
Nowhere does the scripture say that the Lord was crucified on Friday. Nowhere does the scripture say that the Lord was resurrected on Sunday morning. But what it does say is quite marvelous and will cause you to rest in it's truth even more.
But the Lord has seen fit to want you to dig a bit for truth - building one doctrine on another. Do it - be careful how you listen. To him who has - even more will be given. But if you shrug off things like the supposed inconsistencies in the scripture and take the lazy way out - even what you think you have will be taken away.
Tackle the many supposed inconsistent renditions of these events found in the gospel accounts head on and lay them to rest. Don't just whistle through a graveyard with simplistic explanation about partial days and nights and such - hoping in vain that the critics of the scriptures will not notice and point them out to undermine the authority of the Word of God.
