What was the high Sabbath?

[tonychanyt]

Moses commanded the weekly Sabbaths in Ex 20:

8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, 10a but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work.

Moses also commanded other festival days of rest. E.g., Leviticus 23:

5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight,

i.e. at the end of Nisan 14

is the LORD’s Passover. 6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. 7 On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work.

Moses commanded that the day after Nisan 14 was to be a day of rest, whatever day of the week it fell on. Actually, the term high Sabbath is not in the Bible. The confusion came from John 19:

31 Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away.

Jesus was crucified on Friday, Nisan 15, a Paschal day of rest. Nisan 16 was a weekly Saturday Sabbath day. There was a Sabbath day followed by another Sabbath day. I suppose that one can define the second Sabbath day as a High Sabbath day.

 

[AFrazier]

Moses commanded the weekly Sabbaths in Ex 20:


Moses also commanded other festival days of rest. E.g., Leviticus 23:


i.e. at the end of Nisan 14


Moses commanded that the day after Nisan 14 was to be a day of rest, whatever day of the week it fell on. Actually, the term high Sabbath is not in the Bible. The confusion came from John 19:


Jesus was crucified on Friday, Nisan 15, a Paschal day of rest. Nisan 16 was a weekly Saturday Sabbath day. There was a Sabbath day followed by another Sabbath day. I suppose that one can define the second Sabbath day as a High Sabbath day.

Speaking in terms of agreement with your conclusion, with the crucifixion on the 15th, that Saturday Sabbath was the 16th, which was first fruits, the waving of the sheaf, and the first day in the count towards Pentecost. Ergo, that Sabbath WAS a high day, filled with rituals.

 

[Rose_bud]

Moses commanded the weekly Sabbaths in Ex 20:


Moses also commanded other festival days of rest. E.g., Leviticus 23:


i.e. at the end of Nisan 14


Moses commanded that the day after Nisan 14 was to be a day of rest, whatever day of the week it fell on. Actually, the term high Sabbath is not in the Bible. The confusion came from John 19:


Jesus was crucified on Friday, Nisan 15, a Paschal day of rest. Nisan 16 was a weekly Saturday Sabbath day. There was a Sabbath day followed by another Sabbath day. I suppose that one can define the second Sabbath day as a High Sabbath day.

I understand it to mean that when Holy days of celebration coincide with a sabbath day, it becomes a High Sabbath day. So for eg, a Saturday is Sabbath but when Passover or any other holy day occurs on a certain day it is also a day of rest. A high Sabbath day.

Leviticus 23 speaks of these days, when no ordinary work is to be done. A day of rest.