Was the Crucifixion really on a Friday?

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He died on the 14th at the same time the lambs were sacrificed. The 15th was the 1st of unleavened...and a Sabbath
I know the 15th is the first day of the feast. But Christ ate Passover with his disciples and instituted bread for his body and wine for his blood on that night. He died the next day on the 15th. The passover is not a sacrifice for sin.
Heb 11:28 Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
 
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I know the 15th is the first day of the feast. But Christ ate Passover with his disciples and instituted bread for his body and wine for his blood on that night. He died the next day on the 15th.

The trial would be impossible on the 15th. He instituted the covenant on the 14th.
 
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The trial would be impossible on the 15th.
No, because it was on the 15th, the first day of the feast. He offered himself for sin on the 15th.
Heb 8:27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
He instituted the covenant on the 14th.
His disciples killed and prepared the Passover on the 14th.
He instituted the Lord's supper on the night of the 15th, and died that day. When the sacrifice for sin during the feast was offered. This according to Josephus was intended as a feast for the priests.
Joh 18:28 Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.
This is the sacrifice for sin offered every day during the feast, along with all the all the other festival sacrifices. And besides the morning and evening sacrifices. A supper for the priests. Jesus instituted the Lord's supper for his Apostles as a supper for his priests.

Ex 29:33 And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.
The term for stranger here includes all non priests.
The passover on the fourteenth was not for Atonement for sin.
 
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But that is not what was done in 2nd Temple Judaism. The lambs were inspected for faults by the Rabbis, bought and cared for (for 4 days) until the 14th when they were sacrificed (Mishnah Pesakhim). Quit making things up...

Exo 12:3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
Exo 12:4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
Exo 12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
Exo 12:6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
 
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Can you not count then? Yes it was on the 1st day of the week. We see a Wednesday crucifixion impossible...

So if you agree Lord Jesus rose on the first day of the week, Sunday, then that means sometime after sunset Saturday. Three things God's Word gives us to mark the days...

1. Jesus had to have been crucified at the required passover sacrifice time to become 'our Passover sacrificed for us' (1 Corinthians 5:7). This has to be 14th Nisan, at evening before sunset (Exodus 12:6).

2. He said His body would be in the earth for a literal period of 3 days and 3 nights. When time is given in both a day and a night it is always a literal 24 hour period.

3. Jesus rose on the first day of the week, Sunday, sometime between sunset Saturday and dawn on Sunday (Matthew 28).

The below timing is per the Hebrew reckoning of a 24 hour period, from sunset to sunset, which is a requirement.

Jesus rose some time after Saturday sunset, which began Sunday, 1st day of the week.
3rd day = Saturday dawn to Saturday sunset.
3rd night = Friday sunset to Saturday dawn.
2nd day = Friday dawn to Friday sunset.
2nd night = Thursday sunset to Friday dawn.
1st day = Thursday dawn to Thursday sunset.
1st night = Wednesday sunset to Thursday dawn.
14th Nisan at evening, Wednesday, Christ crucified and died in the evening; His body buried just prior to sunset which would begin Thursday the 15th, a high day.
 
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So if you agree Lord Jesus rose on the first day of the week, Sunday, then that means sometime after sunset Saturday. Three things God's Word gives us to mark the days...

1. Jesus had to have been crucified at the required passover sacrifice time to become 'our Passover sacrificed for us' (1 Corinthians 5:7). This has to be 14th Nisan, at evening before sunset (Exodus 12:6).

2. He said His body would be in the earth for a literal period of 3 days and 3 nights. When time is given in both a day and a night it is always a literal 24 hour period.

3. Jesus rose on the first day of the week, Sunday, sometime between sunset Saturday and dawn on Sunday (Matthew 28).

The below timing is per the Hebrew reckoning of a 24 hour period, from sunset to sunset, which is a requirement.

Jesus rose some time after Saturday sunset, which began Sunday, 1st day of the week.
3rd day = Saturday dawn to Saturday sunset.
3rd night = Friday sunset to Saturday dawn.
2nd day = Friday dawn to Friday sunset.
2nd night = Thursday sunset to Friday dawn.
1st day = Thursday dawn to Thursday sunset.
1st night = Wednesday sunset to Thursday dawn.
14th Nisan at evening, Wednesday, Christ crucified and died in the evening; His body buried just prior to sunset which would begin Thursday the 15th, a high day.

That is incorrect. Jesus never said His body would be in the earth. He said He would be in the Heart of the Earth.

This is where you have a problem. Because it says that Jesus would be RISEN the third day but you have Him in the tomb still. Your mixing the SIGN of JONAH with the time He spent in the TOMB.

Jesus would be in the HEART of the Earth (not the in the earth) for 3 days and 3 nights - 11th - 13th Nissan. He would be raised the 3rd day from when He was dead (on the 14th) which would make that the 16th.
 
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That is incorrect. Jesus never said His body would be in the earth. He said He would be in the Heart of the Earth.

This is where you have a problem. Because it says that Jesus would be RISEN the third day but you have Him in the tomb still. Your mixing the SIGN of JONAH with the time He spent in the TOMB.

Jesus would be in the HEART of the Earth (not the in the earth) for 3 days and 3 nights - 11th - 13th Nissan. He would be raised the 3rd day from when He was dead (on the 14th) which would make that the 16th.

Strain at a gnat, why don't ya!

You well know that I was pointing to this...

Matt 12:40
40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
KJV
 
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So if you agree Lord Jesus rose on the first day of the week, Sunday, then that means sometime after sunset Saturday. Three things God's Word gives us to mark the days...

1. Jesus had to have been crucified at the required passover sacrifice time to become 'our Passover sacrificed for us' (1 Corinthians 5:7). This has to be 14th Nisan, at evening before sunset (Exodus 12:6).

2. He said His body would be in the earth for a literal period of 3 days and 3 nights. When time is given in both a day and a night it is always a literal 24 hour period.

3. Jesus rose on the first day of the week, Sunday, sometime between sunset Saturday and dawn on Sunday (Matthew 28).

The below timing is per the Hebrew reckoning of a 24 hour period, from sunset to sunset, which is a requirement.

He also said "in 3 days" and "on the 3rd day" more often. The sign was not the 3 days, it was the resurrection. He often only told the Pharisees part of the plan and not the endgame. The eyewitnesses on the road to Emmaus give the correct timeline and Yeshua did NOT correct them..
 
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He also said "in 3 days" and "on the 3rd day" more often. The sign was not the 3 days, it was the resurrection. He often only told the Pharisees part of the plan and not the endgame. The eyewitnesses on the road to Emmaus give the correct timeline and Yeshua did NOT correct them..

When God's Word gives a time like "three days and three nights", it is always literal. It means two 12 hour periods to equal a 24 hour day, 12 hours for the daytime, and 12 hours for the night. That was how it was reckoned in God's Word.

But what you are trying to suggest is that a 'day' can be just a 12 hour period. That's silliness, for even by today's calendars no such idea as that is suggested! A day = a 24 hour period. And when both the day and night are stressed, a 24 hour period is emphatic. And that is what one must... abide by in the count back from the time of His being raised to the day of His crucifixion.
 
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No, because it was on the 15th, the first day of the feast. He offered himself for sin on the 15th.

His disciples killed and prepared the Passover on the 14th.
He instituted the Lord's supper on the night of the 15th, and died that day. When the sacrifice for sin during the feast was offered. Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.

Impossible. The 15th is Yom Tov. It was also illegal to have a trial at night. You just proved me correct by the Caiaphas quote...it was the 14th when that happened...He died that same day as the lamb of God...
 
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When God's Word gives a time like "three days and three nights", it is always literal. It means two 12 hour periods to equal a 24 hour day, 12 hours for the daytime, and 12 hours for the night. That was how it was reckoned in God's Word.

But what you are trying to suggest is that a 'day' can be just a 12 hour period. That's silliness, for even by today's calendars no such idea as that is suggested! A day = a 24 hour period. And when both the day and night are stressed, a 24 hour period is emphatic. And that is what one must... abide by in the count back from the time of His being raised to the day of His crucifixion.

So "on the 3rd day" and "in 3 days" were not? The Jonah comparison was an idiom. Does the earth have a literal heart? Jews count any part of a day as the whole. But you wouldn't know that...
 
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Exo 12:3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
Exo 12:4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
Exo 12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
Exo 12:6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.

I know what it says. There is NO mention of imprisonment. Stop making things up!
 
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Strain at a gnat, why don't ya!

You well know that I was pointing to this...

Matt 12:40
40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
KJV

Yes, and that verse says that He would be in the HEART of the Earth. Those that interpret this as the tomb or the grave are in error.
 
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Impossible. The 15th is Yom Tov. It was also illegal to have a trial at night.
It's also illegal to bribe, to look to false witnesses. Of which they did that as well.
You just proved me correct by the Caiaphas quote...it was the 14th when that happened...He died that same day as the lamb of God...
The caiaphas quote concerned the Goat for the sin offering on the feast days was a passover supper for the priest.
 
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Yes, and that verse says that He would be in the HEART of the Earth. Those that interpret this as the tomb or the grave are in error.
Yes, I agree on that. When the Lord met disciples walking on the road, look what all he said happened, and it was the third day since then.
 
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So "on the 3rd day" and "in 3 days" were not? The Jonah comparison was an idiom. Does the earth have a literal heart? Jews count any part of a day as the whole. But you wouldn't know that...

No, the reference to Jonah was definitely not... an idiom. Jonah was actually in the belly of the great fish for a literal period of 3 days and 3 nights, as written:

Jonah 1:17
17 Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
KJV


And Lord Jesus said that would be a 'sign' for His death and resurrection also (Matthew 12:40).
 
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It's also illegal to bribe, to look to false witnesses. Of which they did that as well.
The caiaphas quote concerned the Goat for the sin offering on the feast days was a passover supper for the priest.

This was blatant. It does not say that nor does it imply that, it says "the passover"
 
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