Ken Brown

Hi Iskander, first, thank you for your questions. Second, no where in the NT does it state that Yeshua died on Friday. That is just a wrong assumption by those who are not familiar with Elohim's Sabbaths and Feast Days. And the reason it is important is because IF Yeshua died on Friday and was put in the tomb at sunset on Friday and then raised at sunrise on Sunday, we only have 2 nights and 1 day. Yeshua said the only sign He would give is for Him to be in the grave for three days and three nights. If Yeshua was put in the grave at sunset on Wednesday, then you would have three days and three nights that He would be in the grave. I would think it is important for Yeshua to fulfill the Sign He gave. Thanks and have a great Sabbath. KB

stephan huller

Paraskeue does not occur in the LXX. It has been argued that its currency among the Jews in the early Roman period is confirmed by its appearance as the name of the day before sabbath in a decree of Augustus in favor of the Jews of Asia (Josephus, Ant. xvi 163). I am not so convinced. The term also appears in the Didache. I have perhaps greater suspicion about the Josephan corpus than most. In order for me to believe that every Sabbath had a day of preparation I would need to see evidence from Jewish sources to this effect. I have not found this.

stephan huller

Although with that said I guess it is possible that the gospel author was attached to a community that used the Book of Jubilees which has at its very conclusion the word of God as follows:

But if the author of the gospel used the Book of Jubilees we are dealing with a proto-Christian culture which would be considered - a heresy.

Iskander

Thank you.

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Is your insistence on Wednesday a personal crusade?

Jesus said “ the only sign He would give is for Him to be in the grave for three days and three nights” ?. Where did he say that?


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Ken Brown

Hi Iskander, you're welcome. The controversy over the Friday crucifixion versus the Wednesday crucifixion is determined by those women who buy and prepare burial perfumes. These women who followed Yeshua from Galilee were at the grave site and watch as Joseph of Arimathea rolled the stone over the entrance to the tomb. The Sabbath was starting. They were outside the city and had to "return" to where they were. They didn't have cars and there were not any modern cooking conveniences.

Now picture this, Luke tells us that they return and prepare these burial perfumes and THEN rest on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment. So somehow they raced back to where they had come from and then started a fire, boiled oil, added ingredients and finished this all Friday evening before sunset? No, absolutely not!! The problem is that there was such a great rush in getting Yeshua buried BEFORE sunset and these women were out at the tomb watching the stone rolled in place, there is absolutely no rational explanation for this to occur on Friday, right at sunset. So it just doesn't make any common sense that this could have been on Friday evening.

Then we have Mark's account which states that the women go out and purchase the ingredients AFTER the Sabbath. When was this? Saturday night? Or as Spin thinks early Sunday morning? Think along the lines of how it would have been back then. There was no electric for nighttime shopping, and shops would have been closed for the Sabbath and it doesn't seem very reasonable for them to be opened Saturday evening or Sunday morning BEFORE sunrise, does it?

So Iskander, we are left with the only logical and rational conclusion there is. Yeshua did exactly as He predicted in Matt 12:39-40, He was in the tomb for three days and three nights. Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday nights, and Thursday, Friday, and Saturday days. He rose exactly 72 hours after He was placed in the tomb on Saturday at sunset, right as the 1st day of the week was dawning/starting in the evening.

Don't get confuse about the fact that the day following Yeshua's death was a Sabbath. It wasn't the weekly Sabbath, it was the High Day Sabbath for the 1st day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which always follows the preparation day of the Passover where the lambs were slaughtered. Wednesday sunset to Thursday sunset was this High Day Sabbath that followed Yeshua's death. Hope this helps you understand what happened. KB

Sheshbazzar

The preperation was on the SIXTH day of the week, for The Seventh Day Sabbath.

No working, no baking, no boiling, no cooking on The Seventh Day, THE Sabbath rest.
The women were to enjoy The Sabbath rest from their daily labors also.


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Ken Brown

Hi Stephan, so the only Sabbath day the Jewish people prepare for is the weekly Sabbath? KB

stephan huller

My point was merely that there is no evidence for it being designated 'the Day of Preparation'

Ken Brown

Hi Stephan, you need to clarify yourself here. Are you saying that the Sabbath day that Jewish people count from for Shavuot did not have a preparation day before it? KB

stephan huller

You know I have Samaritan taste. The Pentateuch only says "From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks."