three days

[emkei]

Jesus stayed for three days dead. are they actually 3 days that is 72 hrs?

 

[InSpiritInTruth]

Matthew 12:40
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.


Looks like it to me. Which makes you wonder how they figure Friday as being the day Christ died on the cross, seeing that the scriptures say he was raised up at or around the predawn hours of the first day of the week(Sunday).

In order for prophecy to be fulfilled Jesus' body would have to have been in the grave for three days and three nights.

 

[juvenissun]

Jesus stayed for three days dead. are they actually 3 days that is 72 hrs?

Does it matter if it were only 70 hours?

 

[ebia]

Jesus stayed for three days dead. are they actually 3 days that is 72 hrs?

We think of "3 days" as meaning 3 x 24 hours.

But in that world "a night and a day" meant one period from sunset to sunset or (when counting) part thereof.

So:
Friday - (small part of the afternoon)
Saturday
Sunday (night until some time I the early hours)

Is 3 "night-days" in that period's way of counting.

 

[emkei]

did He preach while He was dead?

 

[ebia]

did He preach while He was dead?

What?

 

[emkei]

how about those seen walking in the streets of jerusalem?

 

[InSpiritInTruth]

We think of "3 days" as meaning 3 x 24 hours.

But in that world "a night and a day" meant one period from sunset to sunset or (when counting) part thereof.

So:
Friday - (small part of the afternoon)
Saturday
Sunday (night until some time I the early hours)

Is 3 "night-days" in that period's way of counting.

According to your theory that still only includes 2 sunsets, the first on Friday, the second on Saturday=2.

Besides the scripture plainly says 3 days and 3 nights, but I do agree the day he was crucified would be counted as the first day. Because in the beginning it is written the day was counted from evening to morning.

In my own opinion Jesus would had to of been crucified on a Thursday, not a Friday to fulfill this prophecy. But people can believe what they want, makes no difference to me.

 

[InSpiritInTruth]

did He preach while He was dead?

1 Peter 3:18-19

King James Version (KJV)


18For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: 19By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;

 

[PaladinValer]

1. Read Ebia's reply
2. He preached to those in sheol/hades while He was there.

 

[ebia]

According to your theory that still only includes 2 sunsets, the first on Friday, the second on Saturday=2.

We aren't counting sunsets, we are counting night-day periods thought of as discrete things. that's the shift in thinking required; from thinking of time as a continuous thing to be measured back to thinking of it as a discrete set of things to be counted.

Besides the scripture plainly says 3 days and 3 nights,

That doesn't mean "3 days plus 3 nights", it means "3 night-day periods"

but I do agree the day he was crucified would be counted as the first day. Because in the beginning it is written the day was counted from evening to morning.

In my own opinion Jesus would had to of been crucified on a Thursday, not a Friday to fulfill this prophecy. But people can believe what they want, makes no difference to me.

Killed on thursday would make 4


Killed on Friday: Pilate's behold the man corresponds to the 6th day of [the old] creation.
Rested in the tomb on the 7th day of [the old] creation.
Rose in the garden on the 8th day - the first day of the New Creation.

 

[PaladinValer]

Jesus dies on Good Friday before the sun sets. That's 1 day.
The sun sets, so now we're on 2 days.
The sun sets on Holy Saturday, so now we're on 3 days.
He is risen from the dead with the crack of dawn on Pascha Sunday (roughly).

 

[InSpiritInTruth]

Genesis 1:5
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.


An evening combined with the morning constitutes a day according to the Word of God.

Friday evening...to Saturday morning=1
Saturday evening...to Sunday morning=1
1+1=2
According to what God said a day is, you still only have 2.
Therefore it had to be Thursday before evening to be 3.

 

[ebia]

An evening combined with the morning constitutes a day according to the Word of God.

1. Why can't people distinguish between using a word and defining a word?
2. When counting days in that world, any part of a night-day counts as one.
3. As I pointed out, John's gospel gives theological significance to the days. You wreak that by trying to force 1st century writers to talk about time in the way you think they should.

 

[PaladinValer]

Again, I will say the facts:

Jesus dies on Good Friday before the sun sets. That's 1 day.
The sun sets, so now we're on 2 days.
The sun sets on Holy Saturday, so now we're on 3 days.
He is risen from the dead with the crack of dawn on Pascha Sunday (roughly).

 

[Gideon]

In colloquial Jewish speech a ‘day’ could mean any portion of the day, as long as it was that day. The many references to Jesus rising on the third day meant exactly that – sometime during day three – even though 24 hours had not completed its course. Similarly, when we are told Jesus died at about 3pm Friday; that was day one even though the Hebrew day finished a mere three hours afterwards.


Another example of this can be found in the account of King Rehoboam who told a delegation of people, “Go away for three days, then come again to me.” So they went away, but instead of returning after three days as we might expect, they came back on the third day itself. In other words, when Rehoboam gave his instruction it was the first day, and the second day they stayed away, and on the third they all came back. “So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king said, Come to me again the third day." (1 Kings 12:5,12)


There are plenty more examples of inclusive counting in the Old Testament as well as in Rabbinic literature.

 

[x141]

did He preach while He was dead?

Abel's blood did.

 

[dana b]

Here is another perspective of what the "three days and three nights" signify in their meaning.

 

[PaladinValer]

Here is another perspective of what the "three days and three nights" signify in their meaning.

There is NO MILLENNIUM!

 

[dana b]

There is NO MILLENNIUM!

"......And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years." Rev.20;4


"And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison," Rev.20;7