Notsri

My own opinion is that the intended chronology in the NT is likely without actual variation, i.e., Jesus was allegedly resurrected literally on the third day; only the (semitic) idiom in which that chronology is couched tends to change.

Paul uses on the third day (1Cor 15:4). Mark, after three days (8:31, 9:31, 10:34). Like Paul Matthew prefers on the third day (16:21, 17:23, 20:19) but nevertheless uses after three days at 27:63 and three days and three nights at 12:40. Significant to us, then, is the fact that all three of these terms are used interchangeably in Jewish literature, with the term on the third day always having dominant and more literal force whenever the language does vary (as, apparently, in the NT).

For example:

Pseudo-Philo's Biblical Antiquities 11:3-4:

...and he [Moses] consecrated the people and said to them, "Be prepared on the third day, because after three days God will establish his covenant with you." And the people were consecrated. And on the third day there were claps of thunder and the brightness of lightning, and the sound of trumpets sounded aloud. Terror came upon all the people who were in the camp. And Moses brought the people out before God.

4 Ezra 13:56; 14:1:

And after three days I [God] will tell you [Ezra] other things, and explain weighty and wondrous matters to you. ... On the third day, while I was sitting under an oak, behold, a voice came out of a bush opposite me and said, "Ezra, Ezra."

Genesis Rabba 56:1:

...on the third day of Jonah['s trial, he was delivered, as it is written]: "And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights."

Esther Rabba 9:2:

"NOW IT CAME TO PASS ON THE THIRD DAY"--[which indicates that] Israel are never left in dire distress more than three days. ... Of Jonah it says, "And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights." The dead also will come to life only after three days, as it says, "On the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence."

wavy_wonder1

Thanks,
E.L.B.

wavy_wonder1

The results yield little significance, except for perhaps Hosea vi.2.


Btw, thank you for those insights Notsri.


Thanks,
E.L.B.

Sheshbazzar

One can only hope then, that others might be a wee bit more perceptive about the bulk that you so blithely dismiss.

wavy_wonder1

You can do it for yourself then, and test your own perceptiveness:

Third day

Three days

Really not that hard.


Thanks,
E.L.B.

Sheshbazzar

Already did, -fourty- years ago, how many -years- have you devoted to the study of this particular subject?

wavy_wonder1

You posted your thoughts about who has/hasn't taken to the time to do a word study on 'three days' references, and I responded, offering my opinion that there's little to illumine the origin of the 'three days/third day' with regard to Jesus' Resurrection.

Have you come to a different conclusion?


Thanks,
E.L.B.

spin

After the little apocalypse in chapter 13, waiting for the end. It's my reading.


spin

truth_child

toto, i thought sine you were talking about mark and th three days it was a place to discuss religious things ... just what three days are you talking about and how was i preaching ?

Toto

t-c: this forum is for the discussion of the text of the Bible, and Christian history, from a secular perspective. You cannot start with the assumption that Jesus rose from the dead, much less that it happened on a Sunday. Please review the rules and the forum descriptions.