Three 24 hr days is what is being spoken about. Christ resurrection did not come until after Monday evening.
Christ Is Firstfruits Of The Resurrection
The Feast of Unleavened Bread is a feast that is often mistaken for Passover. Passover is one 24 hour period, while the Feast of Unleavened Bread lasts for seven days. The Feast of Unleavened Bread is also a rest day where no work is to be done. That would also exclude attending a grave site to prep a body on the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Passover was always on the Seventh Day of Rest, Preparation Day was always the day before, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread was always the day after the Sabbath Day of Rest and the Passover. A biblical definition of firstfruits would include the first of most anything that come from the ground or animals. The people would go home on Monday and gather their offerings and bring it back to the temple.
Luke 23:56.
Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes.
But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment.
The biblical calendar is a 364 day a year calendar, which places the holidays on the same day of the week every year. When Christ was hung on the stake, both calendars were in use; the Biblical Calendar, and the Civil Hebrew Calendar. Which calendar do you think Christ and the disciples used; the Biblical Calendar, or the Civil Hebrew Calendar?
All three of these holidays involved firstfruit offerings at the Temple.
- Passover was in the early spring, and it included firstfruits from the first harvest of barley.
- Shavuot was in the late spring, and it included firstfruits from the wheat harvest. Among the many different offerings given, was a "wave offering" of two loaves of leavened bread. This was also a firstfruits offering.
Sukkot was in the fall, and it was the final harvest which included firstfruits of olives and grapes.
The feast day of Un-Leavened Bread was always on a Sunday when using the Biblical Calendar. That particular Sunday was also a REST DAY where no work was to be done. The women would not have attended his body that day because it was against the law.
Luke 23:56
Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But
they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment. The Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread
Exodus 12:16
On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day.
Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat; that is all you may do.
1 Corinthians 15:20
But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
1 Corinthians 15:23
But each in turn:
Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him.
The Firstfruits offering was on Monday after Unleavened Bread.
Passover Sabbath
Mark 16:1
When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of Jacob, and Salome, they
(had / AIT) bought spices so that they might go to anoint Yahshua's body.
Luke 23:56
Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But
they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandments.
Luke 24:1
On the first
day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.
The word "
day" is not in the original text.
John 19:31
Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jewish
leaders did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down.
John 19:42
Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.
First fruits was observed the third day after Passover and the second day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
The resurrection was the first part of the week, not the first day.