So, we've established that Jesus was ressurected after three days...?

Question

see my previous post here: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AplUnaGtD_7ZQYVh3sfygh3sy6IX?qid=20060719094838AAi4raH

Now, I ask this: The Bible states that Jesus was crucified on Friday, died, and was removed from the cross around 3pm. On Sunday morning, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and found it empty - Jesus was ressurected. Now, Friday at 3pm to Sunday at 3pm would only be TWO days...but he was found to be ressurected in the morning...so it was closer to ONE AND A HALF DAYS that Jesus was "dead". Even if we include Thursday (the day he was jailed), as one of you suggested this was the time in which he said he would "be inside the earth" (presumably in an underground cell), we know that Jesus was arrested Thursday night. Thursday night to Sunday morning is still only TWO and A HALF days (at most), not three....
IS this not a glaring contradiction??? Does not the OT say that the savior would rise after three days??

Answer 1

This question has been asked many times. It's also been answered many times, by myself and others.

To the ancient Jews, "three days" did not necessarily mean a 72-hour period.

Instead, it meant three days on the calendar -- or any part thereof.

You need to stop reading the Bible through the prism of 21st-century standards and language -- as with any book, you need to "get inside" the thinking of the people who were alive when the book was written.

Answer 2

Pass me not,

In Luke 23:44-55 and then Luke 24:1-12 you will find one of the accounts on Jesus death and ressurection. Notice when it talks of the Sabath day, the Sabath was observed on Saturday at that time.

It was 3 days just like an earlier poster mentioned.

Answer 3

The Bible is a determination of mythes initially preserved orally via wasteland human beings of the middle East. those are people who did no longer understand that the earth became into around, that the earth is a planet that orbits the sunlight, or perhaps that China, much less something in the Western Hemisphere, existed. The thoughts in the Bible exhibit the sheer incorrect information and typical loss of information that those human beings had. Later, as quickly as the bible became into written down, it became into persistently censored and rewritten via rather plenty each authority that needed it to conform along with his evaluations. As there is not any credible evidence to teach the historic life of Jesus, then that's exceedingly inconceivable that he died, much less resurrected.

Answer 4

as I understand it, at that time, a day was regarded as a unit. so if something starts today and ends tomorrow it took 2 days even if it stated at 6 pm Monday and ended 9 am Tuesday. So starting on Friday and ending on Sunday was 3 to them.

Answer 5

Could you please give me scripture where it says Jesus died on a Friday? I ask this cause I have not studied this yet. If I am not mistaken it could not have been a Friday cause back then the days was counted from sundown to sundown. I would like to study this if you would be so kind to help me with scriptures. Thank you.

Answer 6

Julia's right, that's what it is. It wasn't by "hours", it was counted according to calendar days. So he was dead Friday, and Saturday, and was probably dead part of Sunday. Three days. Third day.

Answer 7

Would rise on the 3rd day. Died on Friday, then Saturday passed. On the 3rd day he arose.

Regardless of the detail of days, what's the message?

Answer 8

Oops! Jesus was never crucified, so no question of resurrection !!! His enemies (in fact the jews, who were posing to be his companians) were mistaken.
When you fabricate a story (apart from facts) you have every chance of contradiction. OK?

Answer 9

If you know so much about what the bible says, I would assume you could figure it out yourself. Quit stirring up strife.

Answer 10

The "OT" never mentions the savior dieing and rising.