What day did Christ really rise?

[JereReagan]

What day did Christ truely rise on, I've heard sunday, but in the scripture it just isnt there. And I've always heard 3 days, friday to sunday is not 3 anyway you slice it, when did he truely rise?

 

[gord44]

who knows...i don' think there is any proof of what day He rose....could have been a Tuesday for all we know

 

[SolomonVII]

On the thrid day, He rose again. He was buried on the Friday (first day), remained in the grave on the Saturday (second day), and rose sometime early on the Sunday morning (the third day).
Not a period of 3x24 hours, but on the third day.
And from knowing something about Jewish festivals and Sabbaths, from Scripture we can also understand that it was the Friday that He was crucified.

 

[katherine2001]

It was Sunday, because the Scriptures say that the women went to the tomb to annoint the body the morning after the Sabbath. We know that His crucifixion took place on Friday. They couldn't annoint His body before they had to observe the Sabbath. By Jewish custom, the observance actually begins the night before--and the EO have kept this tradition. The liturgical observance of Sunday actually begins with Vespers on Saturday night.

 

[rstrats]

solomon,

re: "He was buried on the Friday..."

Matthew 12:40 and Luke 24:21 indicate that the crucifixion could not have occurred any later than Thursday.

 

[MbiaJc]

What day did Christ truely rise on, I've heard sunday, but in the scripture it just isnt there. And I've always heard 3 days, friday to sunday is not 3 anyway you slice it, when did he truely rise?

Jesus was in the grave for 3 full days and 3 full nights.


[font=Times New Roman, Arial]Three Days and Three Nights
[font=Times New Roman, Arial]Was Jesus in the grave for exactly three days and three nights?[/font][/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]The ONLY sign Jesus ever gave the Jews to prove His Messiahship was that He would be dead three days and three nights. [/font][font=Times New Roman, Arial]Does that mean Jesus died on a Friday and was resurrected on a Sunday? How does the Bible define "three days" and "three nights?"[/font]


[font=Times New Roman, Arial]Was Jesus in the grave for exactly three days and three nights? [/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]"Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: For as Jonas was three days and three night in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth" Matthew 12:38-40.[/font]​

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]Since Jesus claimed to be the Messiah, the Jews demanded a sign of Him to prove His claim. Jesus could give them no better proof that He was the Christ than the literal fulfillment of the well-known sign of Jonah, Luke 11:30. If this sign were not literally fulfilled, it would prove unto them that He was not the Messiah. This was the only sign Jesus ever gave them to prove His Messiahship. Hence the great need for Him to do exactly what He promised them to do.[/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]Mark 8:31 tells us: [/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]"And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again." [/font]​

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]Did Christ mean what He said? Did He really expect to be buried in the earth for three days and three nights? Jesus did not say, "After two nights and one day I will rise again." He said, "After three days I will rise again." He meant three days and three nights--a full 72 hours![/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]The Jews remembered this sign when He was crucified. [/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]"Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first" Matthew 27:62-64. [/font]​

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]They did all they could to prevent His resurrection. They got the watch, made the sepulchre sure, and sealed the stone. "After three days I will rise again" was necessary to fulfill the Jonah sign.[/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]Modern interpreters of the Bible make Jesus Christ a liar. They say Jesus was crucified on Good Friday, buried about sundown the same day, and arose on the next Sunday about daybreak in contradiction to the Scriptures! Any schoolboy knows that this is only two nights and one day. If He were crucified on Good Friday and arose on Sunday morning as they say, then He did not literally fulfill the sign of Jonah. If He did not fulfill this sign as He promised the Jews, then He was an impostor and not the Messiah! In other words, Jesus Christ lied to the Jews about His burial and resurrection.[/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]If the Good Friday theory is correct as some teach, then the Bible contains "highly figurative language" which requires a human interpreter to tell people what the verses really mean. By this same liberal method of interpreting the Scriptures you can destroy every basic doctrine in the Bible. [/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]I do not care very much for what scholars say! But I am greatly concerned about not accusing my Lord of lying! Jesus Christ plainly said He would be in the grave "three days and three nights". He emphatically declared He would rise again "after three days". I believe He fulfilled the sign of Jonah and vindicated His Messiahship. In Matthew 28:6, we read this testimony of the angel at the tomb:[/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]"He is not here: for he is risen, as he said." [/font]​

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]He said He would be in the grave "three days and three nights" and "after three days" He would rise again. Jesus did fulfill the Jonah sign. But He was not crucified on Good Friday, nor did He rise on Sunday morning![/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]The Part-of-a-Day Theory Wrong[/font]
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[font=Times New Roman, Arial]Men, in order to get the Bible out of an embarrassing situation, allege that the Jews counted a part of a day as the whole day. Such passages as Genesis 42:17, 18; I Samuel 30:12, 13; Esther 4:15-17; I Kings 20:29; and I Chronicles 10:5 are cited to prove this theory. However, none of these passages prove "three days and three nights" means two nights and one day. Only one of them even contains the expression "three days and three nights" I Samuel 30:12. But there is absolutely no reason to give "three days and three nights" in I Samuel 30:12 any meaning except their literal meaning. Divine inspiration declares the young man "had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights." What authority has any man to contradict these plain words by affirming the time was not so long? The expression, "three days, night and day", in Esther 4:15, is not the same wording as "three days and three nights" in Matthew 12:40. There is no mention of any nights at all in the other passages; therefore, they give no evidence as to the meaning of "three days and three nights." There is no reason to take any of the passages cited in any sense except their literal sense, unless one has a theory to prove. The "three days and three nights" in Jonah 1:17 are to be taken in their literal sense.[/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]Granting that some of the Jews did count a part of the day for a whole day, can it be proven that this is what Jesus meant? Can it be proven that the Jews counted a part of a day as a whole day and a whole night? Where is the proof in the inspired Word?[/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]Yet, proponents of the Good Friday tradition want us to believe that a part of a day meant a whole day and a whole night. Men who believe the Bible to be literally true dare not accept such reasoning.[/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]The Meaning of Day in the Bible[/font]
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[font=Times New Roman, Arial]The word "day" in the Bible in its primary sense means the interval between dawn and darkness. [/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]"And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night . . . " Genesis 1:5. (Compare Genesis 1:14-18; 8:22.) [/font]​

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]This is the first occurrence of the word "day" in the Bible, and the Lord God himself gives its meaning. Jesus believed there were 12 hours in a day. He asked in John 11:9: [/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]" . . . Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world." [/font]​

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]Jesus made a day and night consist of 24 hours. Can there be any higher authorities than the Lord God and Jesus Christ? Do not such authorities settle the matter for all true believers?[/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]In the Bible a day is the interval of time comprising the period between two successive risings of the sun (Genesis 7:24; Job 3:16). The Hebrews reckoned it from evening to evening Exodus 12:18, [/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]" . . . from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath" Leviticus 23:32. [/font]​

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]The 12-hour night began at sunset and ended at sunup. It was counted before the 12-hour day. [/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]"And the evening and the morning were the first day" Genesis 1:5. [/font]​

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]Hence a new day began at 6 o'clock in the evening and lasted until the same time the next evening--a period of 24 hours--a 12-hour night followed by a 12-hour day![/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]The Good Friday Hoax[/font]
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[font=Times New Roman, Arial]The Bible nowhere says or implies that Jesus was crucified and died on Good Friday! It is said that Jesus was crucified on[/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]"the day before the Sabbath", Mark 15:42; Luke 23:54; John 19:14, 31, 42. [/font]​

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]As the Jewish weekly Sabbath came on Saturday, scholars have assumed Jesus was crucified on Good Friday. This is poor reasoning because the Bible bears abundant testimony that the Jews had other Sabbaths beside the weekly Sabbath which fell on Saturday.[/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]The first day of the Passover week, no matter on what day of the week it came, was always an annual Sabbath. [/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]"And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein" Leviticus 23:6, 7. [/font]​

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]On the seventh day of this feast, the 21st of Nisan, was another annual Sabbath: [/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]" . . . in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein" Leviticus 23:8. [/font]​

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]The day of Pentecost was an annual Sabbath Numbers 28:26. This is the reason we read about Sabbaths in the plural number in the Old Testament Leviticus 26:2, 34, 35, 43.[/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]The Bible makes it plain, Jesus was crucified and buried on: [/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]" . . . the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath" Mark 15:42. [/font]​

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]John tells us: [/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]"And it was the preparation of the Passover" John 19:14.[/font]​

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]It was the preparation day on which the Passover Supper was made ready [editor's note: actually it was the preparation for the Holy Day, the Night to Be Much Remembered], the 14th of Nisan John 13:1, 29; 18:28. It was the preparation to keep the Passover Sabbath--the annual Sabbath which always came on the 15th day of the first ecclesiastical month. John 19:31 adds: [/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]" . . . (for that sabbath day was an high day) . . . ."[/font]​

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]Its greatness was due to the fact that it was the annual Sabbath of the Passover Festival.[/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]Two Sabbaths that Week[/font]
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[font=Times New Roman, Arial]Matthew makes it plain that two Sabbaths had passed since Jesus was crucified. The KJV has this rendering: [/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]"In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre" Matthew 28:1. [/font]​

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]On this verse nearly all translators have allowed tradition to control their translation. It is not "Sabbath" but "Sabbaths" in the Greek text (the genitive case and the plural number). The verse properly translated would read: [/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]"In the end of the sabbaths . . . ." [/font]​

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]This allows for an annual Sabbath on Thursday and a regular Sabbath on Saturday.[/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]When Jesus was buried near sundown on the day of the Passover, [/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]"Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary" [/font]​

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]watched the burial Matthew 27:58-61. Immediately after the burial, Luke says: [/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]"And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on" Luke 3:54. [/font]​

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]This Sabbath was an annual Sabbath on Thursday. The day after the annual Sabbath the women bought spices, Mark 16:1. Luke tells us that the women, after preparing the spices on Friday, [/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]" . . . rested the sabbath day according to the commandment" Luke 23:56.[/font]​

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]The traditional interpretation makes Mark and Luke contradict each other. In Mark 16:1 we are informed that the Sabbath was past when the spices were purchased. "Had" is inserted without any authority from the Greek text. [/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]"No reason can be given for the variation--bought sweet spices. Not had bought" (An American Commentary on the New Testament, Vol. 11, p. 251). [/font]​

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]In Luke 23:56 we are told that the women prepared the spices and ointments, and rested the Sabbath day. If Jesus lay in the grave on Sabbath only, Mark and Luke contradict each other. But if He lay there two Sabbaths having a work day between them, then Mark and Luke harmonize to perfection.[/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]The Resurrection Late Saturday Evening[/font]
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[font=Times New Roman, Arial]When does the Bible say that Jesus rose from the dead? The two Mary's came to the tomb:[/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]"in the end of the sabbath" Matthew 28:1. [/font]​

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]The Sabbath always ended at sunset:[/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]"From even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath" Leviticus 23:32. [/font]​

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]Then they went to the tomb before sunset on Saturday. Jesus had risen from the dead before their arrival Matthew 28:1-8. According to the Bible, Jesus Christ arose before sunset on Saturday. Christ did not rise on Sunday morning, for the two Mary saw Him, heard Him speak, and held His feet just as the Sabbath ended and the first day of the week began. [/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]"In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week . . ." (Matthew 28:1).[/font]​

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]Mark 16:9 tells us Jesus first appeared to Mary Magdalene early the first day of the week, which was Saturday after sundown. The nearer after sunset this happened, the earlier in the first of the week it was. Mark does not say that she was alone at the time she first saw Jesus, and Matthew tells us that: [/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]"the other Mary was with her" (Matthew 28:1). [/font]​

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]The Date of the Crucifixion[/font]
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[font=Times New Roman, Arial]Having shown from Matthew 28:1 that Jesus rose from the grave as the Sabbath ended at sunset and the first day of the week began, this would put the crucifixion on Wednesday at sunset just as the preparation day ended and the annual Sabbath commenced. According to the Gospel writers, Jesus died at the ninth hour (3:00 p.m. our time) and was buried about sunset that same day, Luke 23:44, 45, 50-54; Mark 15:33-38, 42-47.[/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]If Jesus were buried at sunset on Wednesday and arose at sunset on Saturday, He fulfilled the sign of Jonah. He would have been in the grave Wednesday night, Thursday night, and Friday night--a full "three days". All together a full "three days and three nights." Thus we have a literal fulfillment of the words of Christ in Matthew 12:40. hence there is no need to follow Roman Catholic tradition which makes Jesus Christ a liar. Truly, [/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]". . . He rose again the third day according to the scriptures" I Corinthians 15:4, [/font]​

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]not the second day according to Roman Catholic tradition![/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]The Third Day[/font]
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[font=Times New Roman, Arial]Some Scriptures speak of His resurrection[/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]"after three days" (Mark 8:31; 9:31 R. V.; 10:34 R. V.; Matthew 27:63). [/font]​

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]Other verses say [/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]"three days" (Matthew 26:60, 61; 27:39, 40; Mark 14:58; 15:29, 30; John 2:19, 20). [/font]​

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]Still others speak of [/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]"the third day" (Matthew 16:21; 17:23; 20:19; 27:64; Luke 9:22; 18;33; 24:6, 7, 21, 46; Acts 10:40; I Corinthians 16:4). [/font]​

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]Some make much over "the third day" in Luke 24:21, and they affirm that if the crucifixion took place on Wednesday, Sunday would be the fourth day since these things were done. But the answer is simple. These things were done just as Thursday was beginning at sunset on Wednesday. They were therefore completed on Thursday, and the first day since Thursday would be Friday, the second day since Thursday would be Saturday, and "the third day since" Thursday would be Sunday, the first day of the week.[/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]So the supposed objection in reality supports the Wednesday crucifixion. But if the crucifixion took place on Friday, by no manner of reckoning could Sunday be made "the third day since" these things were done.[/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]Unless we believe the Bible contains errors, we know that all passages must harmonize. Therefore, "after three days" must mean the same as "the third day" Matthew 16:21.[/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Arial]There is nothing in the Bible to favor the Good Friday crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The biblical record harmonizes with a Wednesday crucifixion and Saturday evening resurrection--a full 72 hours. This view allows for a literal interpretation of "three days and three nights." It allows for the word "after three days" to mean just that. It proves that Jesus Christ fulfilled the sign of Jonah and thus proved His Messiahship to the Jews.[/font]

 

[Roald]

Are we going to start taking the New Testament literally?

Someone get me John...

 

[Roald]

Matthew 28:1 -- What does dawn mean?

Read Mark 15. Do you find it strange that Mark refers to 9 AM as the third hour, in the custom of the Romans? Would that make 7 AM the first hour? What would 6 AM be? When does dawn come? Was Mark Jewish?

 

[Oblio]

When did the questioning of the Resurrection on Sunday begin ? It has been taught from the beginning, by Christ and the Apostles, to have been Sunday.

Chapter LXVII.-Weekly Worship of the Christians.

And we afterwards continually remind each other of these things. And the wealthy among us help the needy; and we always keep together; and for all things wherewith we are supplied, we bless the Maker of all through His Son Jesus Christ, and through the Holy Ghost. And on the day called Sunday,146 all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits; then, when the reader has ceased, the president verbally instructs, and exhorts to the imitation of these good things. Then we all rise together and pray, and, as we before said, when our prayer is ended, bread and wine and water are brought, and the president in like manner offers prayers and thanksgivings, according to his ability,147 and the people assent, saying Amen; and there is a distribution to each, and a participation of that over which thanks have been given,148 and to those who are absent a portion is sent by the deacons. And they who are well to do, and willing, give what each thinks fit; and what is collected is deposited with the president, who succours the orphans and widows and those who, through sickness or any other cause, are in want, and those who are in bonds and the strangers sojourning among us, and in a word takes care of all who are in need. But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world; and Jesus Christ our Saviour on the same day rose from the dead. For He was crucified on the day before that of Saturn (Saturday); and on the day after that of Saturn, which is the day of the Sun, having appeared to His apostles and disciples, He taught them these things, which we have submitted to you also for your consideration.

 

[SolomonVII]

matthew 12:40For 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.

From Mark:

The Burial of Jesus
42It was Preparation Day (that is, the day before the Sabbath). So as evening approached, 43Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Council, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for Jesus' body. 44Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead. Summoning the centurion, he asked him if Jesus had already died. 45When he learned from the centurion that it was so, he gave the body to Joseph. 46So Joseph bought some linen cloth, took down the body, wrapped it in the linen, and placed it in a tomb cut out of rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb. 47Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was laid.




The Resurrection
1When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus' body. 2Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb 3and they asked each other, “Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?”



....Personally, I have always considerered the fundamentalism which needs to understand every passage in the Bible in its most literal sense, as more of a modern abberration than an expression of the early Church understanding.
Such literalism historically may have had some value as a reaction against the textual hypercriticism and liberalism that were threatening to reduce the whole of the biography of Jesus to the status of myth, but there ought to be a role for some basic common sense in biblical studies as well.

Does the Book of Jonah mention that the creature that swallowed Jonah was even a whale?
If not, would that make Jesus a liar as well?

Or perhaps, just maybe, Jesus knew the value of figurative language, of symbolism, and of hyperbole.

 

[rstrats]

solomon,

re: "It was Preparation Day (that is, the day before the Sabbath)."

But not necessarily the weekly Sabbath. That the term "preparation day " did not always have to mean the day before the 7th day Sabbath is attested to by Rabbi Samuel Lacks who states: "The day of preparation (Greek ‘paraskeue’) equals Friday OR the day before a holiday" - [A Rabbinic Commentary of the New Testament]. Therefore, the preparation day did not have to be referring to a Friday. Remember that it was Passover week.

And what about Luke 24:21?

 

[revrobor]

He's got to be disgusted (if our Lord has such an emotion) at us debating what day He arose. It doesn't matter. What does matter is that He DID.

 

[Oblio]

He's got to be disgusted (if our Lord has such an emotion) at us debating what day He arose. It doesn't matter. What does matter is that He DID.

Not sure that He would be disgusted. It is not really an issue except when we are judged for commemorating His Resurrection on Sunday. There are deeper typological issues involved but for the average Christian, these are neither understood, nor are they an issue.

 

[SolomonVII]

He's got to be disgusted (if our Lord has such an emotion) at us debating what day He arose. It doesn't matter. What does matter is that He DID.

Frankly, I am a little surprised that this was an area of controversy, or that there was such a thing as a 'Good Friday Hoax'. (For what ends would there even be such a hoax????).

The OP seemed to be a little lacking in Biblical information, and I thought I could supply him with what I knew. That this would be in any way disputed by other Christians surprises me!

If people want to revise the day to Wednesday or Monday, or whatever, it doesn't really matter, I suppose.
It does raise the question, however, about how accurate the gospel account really is. If the eyewitnesses could not even relay the fact that the crucifixion took place on a Friday to the early believers, one has to wonder what else was misunderstood. Everything is open to dispute
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