Hi gerhard,
You wrote:
You do realize that the 'sixth hour', in the days of Jesus' visitation to us, was not a reference to 6 a.m., right? Neither would the 'ninth hour' have referred to 9 a.m. or 9 p.m.
God bless you,
In Christ, Ted
Jesus left the city of the Samaritans and after two days, He departed to Galilee. Then as soon as He arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed Him because they had seen the things that he did at Jerusalem. These people would try to be first to meet Jesus, or they might not be able to come near Him for help. Among them the nobleman whose child who was sick to the point of death, would have been one of the first to find Jesus as early as possible in the morning because it was Jesus' custom to travel very early in the mornings. I need not tell you that; the Gospels rebound with stories of such journeys of Jesus. To be early and the first, is of the essence of this story in particular.
So Jesus told the nobleman he must not worry, but must go home, because He had healed his child and he was healthy already. When the father got home he inquired what time if day his child got better. His servants told him it was the seventh hour.
Now elsewhere in John Jesus said a day has twelve hours. He meant a working day has just so many hours to work. The first hour of work would be from sunrise and the last hour of work would be before sunset. Just logical.
But like in the John 4 example, it is clear that JOHN--not Jesus--, in his Gospel adopted the Roman way for indicating general time ante or post meridian. John 19:14 is no exception.
But just imagine, Jesus having died the ninth hour of daylight normally everybody would have worked, but delivered over to be crucified and killed the sixth hour of daylight normally everybody would have arrived at work.
Yes, I know, you aver it implies Jesus was delivered over on day one midday 'the sixth hour', and next day "the third hour" -- 9 a.m., was crucified and died six hours later the same day "the ninth hour" --3 p.m.--, and still the same day, was buried before sunset.
Flabbergasted I am able only to ask, Where is your Scripture? Therefore, if you are satisfied with the shambles, then be it so. I know in Whom I believe, the Lamb of God, Our Passover who was Killed "on the first day they always had to kill the passover", and whose body, "THAT WHICH REMAINED" of Our Passover Sacrifice, Jesus' body, "THE NEXT DAY" once for all HAD to be interred "according to the Scriptures", Exodus 12:10-39 on "That Selfsame The Whole Day BONE-DAY ... ON THE FIFTEENTH day of the First Month ... even the first day of seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread."
Not killed and buried the same day before sunset but killed mid-afternoon late on the 14th and undertaken to be buried on the 15th after sunset "after ... evening had come", and finished buried "That Selfsame Whole Day BONE-DAY ... That Day ... high day of sabbath ... the Preparation ... which is the Fore-Sabbath"
of the Passover of Yahweh -- a 'Friday'.
