The Bible says that Jesus was in the tomb 3 days and 3 nights,but He was there friday till sunday?

Question

how was the reckoning done?

Answer 1

It doesn't say 3 days and 3 nights. it says after 3 days. Jews at the time considered any part of a day as a day. Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

Answer 2

Jesus was in the tomb three days and three nights just as the bible says. However this was a high sabbath at Passover and so Friday and Saturday were Sabbaths and Jesus had to be taken down from the cross before the Sabbath day. That is he was taken down Thursday night the day before the high Sabbath.

Crucified on Thursday and risen on Sunday - three days and three nights in accordance with scripture.

Regards,

Jim M

Answer 3

When I say that the Jewish day begins at 6pm, it is an approximate hour, in reality it began at sunset.

Jesus died at 3pm on the day of Preparation. The Sabbath began at 6pm and ended at 6pm 24 hours later. Then at 6pm the first day of the week began, ( I think??) and the women went to the tomb early in the morning on the first day of the week, and the body of Jesus was gone.This would be only 3 days and 2 nights, and the bible says 3 days and 3 nights at Matthew 12:40, so apparently I do not fully understand if the first day of the week, is the day after the Sabbath or not...sorry....but I'm learning.

Luke 23:54 Now it was the day of Preparation, and the evening light of the sabbath was approaching.

Luk 24:1 On the first day of the week, however, they went very early to the tomb.

Acts 10:40 God raised this One up on the third day and granted him to become manifest,..

Luke 9:22 ...The Son of man ...and on the third day be raised up.

Answer 4

solid question, no longer many Christians be attentive to this one, yet they might desire to. After pondering this question and starting to be a member of an Hebraic team. I found out that Jesus did no longer die on a Friday, like many human beings have been taught. He died on a Thursday, throughout the Passover. The very next day is call the dinner occasion of Unlevened Bread. it is between the three intense Holy Days in the Jewish year. meaning that despite day it falls on, it is seen a Sabath Day. So it is the way it occurred. The Passover starts at sunset. Jesus eats the Passover meal together with his followers. he's arrested later that evening and he's crucified the subsequent morning. he's lifeless and buried earlier sunset, that's the beginning up of Unlevened Bread, that's Thursday evening for us. Jesus is lifeless for 3 days and nights, and then God raised Him from the lifeless on Sunday Morning. i've got faith that Jesus will fulfill the fall Feasts at His 2nd coming.

Answer 5

This is a question that has puzzled many contemporary Christians, because to us, three days and three nights means 72 hours. But Jesus was not in the tomb for 72 hours. Therefore, the Bible must be wrong. Right?

Unfortunately, we are casting our definitions back 2000 years and declaring that since the words used then do not reflect what our current definitions mean, it must be wrong.

We think like Greeks.

The Jews, however, thought like Jews...or Hebrews.

To them, the phrase means just three days. Nothing more, nothing less. Ahhh. But Lawrence, three days *still* means 72 hours. Yes, to the Greek mind it does.

To the Hebrew mind, however, it can mean as little as 48 hours, 1 second, all the way to 72 hours. The Hebrew mind used "inclusive" calculation for time.

Let me give you an example of non-Greek time calculation.

When I was dating my wife, one time it was 20 days until the end of test week in college. She was so ecstatic (sp?) as she was saying there was only one more week!

Wait a minute, honey, my Greek mind said, one week is seven days, not 20 days.

Ahh, my sweetness said, but we are already in this week, so we don't count it, and we don't count test week, therefore there is one week left of school!

The Hebrew would also understand this.

So, for the Hebrew, Jesus was in the tomb on Friday, even though just part, it was considered a day, therefore, that was one day. He was in the tomb on Sabbath, that was another day, thus two days total. And He was in the tomb on Sunday, therefore another and thus three days. So to the Hebrew mind, He was in the tomb three days and three nights.

Lawrence
http://www.truebiblesermons.com

Answer 6

Get your facts correct please! The jews follow a jewish calender. They don't work like we do according to the roman calender. Their sabbath was and still is on a Saturday. It is reckonded that Jesus was actually crucified on a Wednesday was put to the grave on the same day, he was in the grave 3 nights and he rose on the Sabbath the Saturday. So as every other major christian celebration in the western world, easter is celebrated on the wrong day and the calculation for when easter will be is done according to the fases of the moon - and like christmas a based on a pagan way of doing things.

Answer 7

simple he stayed on friday day/night, saturday day/night, sunday day/night, and at the crack of dawn on the monday morning he left before anybody came. it is only recorded that jesus was there from friday to sunday but it doesnt tell you the time he was put in on the friday or the time that he left on the sunday, so how can you logically say how long he was in there for.

Answer 8

Friday early which might be considered night/early morning
Friday night
Saturday night
Those were the nights.

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (during the day)
Those were the days...

Answer 9

Three days and three nights was a Jewish idiom or figure of speech. It's like if I said

"I spent all day trying to figure this problem out"

when really I only spent some of the time while I was at work trying to figure out a solution to a problem. I didn't actually spend 24 hours engaged in problem solving.

Answer 10

The Bible does not say exactly that. In one place it says he rose after three days. In conversation when we say that we do not necessarily mean three complete days.
He himself said he would rise on the third day and in the Apostles creed we say that, " On the third day he rose again.'
These are accurate. He was in Hades for part of Friday, the whole of Saturday and part of Sunday.