3 Days and 3 Nights Equals?

Question

Jesus said, he would be as Jonah 3 Days and 3 Nights in the Belly of a Whale.

Jesus Died, Friday Night (Just before the Sabbath) and Rose 3 Days Later. Wouldn't that be Monday?

Sunday Night is Monday. If it was Sunday, then wouldn't it be 72 hours?

God's Calender is not like ours. Man made up 12pm is the Next day theroy, Remember. According to the bible, the Next day is Evening!!

“An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” (Matt. 12:39-40).

This is the Bible’s definition of the length of time accounted for within the phrase “the third day.” It spanned three periods of darkness and three periods of light.

Genesis 1:4-13 Great Example!

I am not saying Jesus didn't Rise.

He did, on the 3rd day. That is not Sunday, as Many will have you believe. That doesn't add up.

Read Genesis, a Day was Considered Night then Day.

Genesis 1: [13] And the evening and the morning were the third day.

Funny, you say, believe what you will.

But, don't manny Christians worship God on Sunday because Jesus rose on Sunday? If that is not the case, then ...What are they worshipping?

If he died Wenesday afternoon, 3pm (the 9th hour) , then that would make Saturday afternoon, 3pm when he Rose not Sunday.

Do the math, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

Answer 1

Crucifixion Wednesday, resurrection Saturday.

There was another sabbath that week, on a Thursday--the high holy day known as the First Day of Unleavened Bread.

Jesus's tomb was FOUND empty BEFORE sunrise on Sunday.

Friday to Sunday does not satisfy three days and three nights.

Answer 2

ok this is going to take a awhile so give a minute to git my notes to gether but to answer your Q. he did rise the third day it was not sunday as many think i will give versus in sec.
he rose saturday he died a day befor the sabbeth that dont mean sat. the verus says that day was a graet day. ill get back in sec with versus God bless

Pastor Christopher T. Bradford


ok lets get started ITS LOT BUT PLZ. READ

HOW COULD WEDNESDAY BE THE DAY BEFORE THE SABBATH?
But if He was crucified the day before the Sabbath, how could He have been crucified on Wednesday? The answer lies in the fact that the Jews celebrated more Sabbaths than just the weekly Sabbath. They had a number of feast days that were "High Sabbaths," or high days. He arose on the first day of the week after the Sabbaths* (plural). Sometime after 6 p.m. Saturday, end of the Jewish day, in Matthew 28:1 we read; "In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre."
The Scofield Reference Bible (1917 ed.) has a center column note which reveals that "Sabbath" in this verse is plural; from the Greek word "sabbata." (Also in Yough's Analytical Concordance) The day after the crucifixion was not the regular (Saturday) Sabbath but a Special ("High" - Greek, "megas", large) Sabbath.
John 19:31 states, "The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath day, (for that Sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away."
The Jews observed several "high" Sabbaths ("holy convocations") in their seasons. Leviticus 23:3-6; "Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the Sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings. These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord's passover. And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread."
The first Jewish month (Nisan or Abib) is our April. The Feast of the Passover (a high Sabbath) and the Feast of the Unleavened Bread (another high Sabbath) were celebrated on April 14th and 15th respectively.
The day Jesus died was the preparation day (Wednesday) of the Passover celebration on Thursday (John 19:14, 31: "And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he (meaning Pilate) saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!" This was the morning of the crucifixion day. Verse 31 states, "The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath day, (for that Sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away."
Therefore, Passover (Nisan 14) was on Thursday, that year, the Feast of Unleavened Bread began on Friday (seven day feast last to Nisan 21), and the regular weekday Sabbath was on Saturday. Jesus was crucified in the morning on Wednesday and placed in the tomb before 6 P.M. He arose from the grave sometime after 6 P.M. on Saturday, which would be early Sunday morning, the first day of the week, according to Jewish time-keeping. This explanation fits Jesus' prophecy in Matthew 12:40 that He would be "three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."


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Answer 3

Actually, it was quite common back then to count inclusively as opposed to exclusively (the way we do). The Romans and the Greeks both did so, and since they're really the ones who carried on the Christian tradition, it's not surprising to see them use their own method of counting in the Bible - though the Jews might have counted that way too.

Here's an example: if on Monday, I told you we'd meet in three days, you would assume that we'd meet on Thursday (counting Tuesday as the first day and Thursday as the third). If you told a Roman (of the first century AD) on Monday that you'd meet him in three days, he would assume that you meant Wednesday (counting Monday as the first day and Wednesday as the third).

Meaning that when they say that Christ rose from the dead three days after he died (on a Friday), they're counting Friday as the first day, Saturday as the second, and Sunday as the third (i.e., they're counting the days inclusively, as was the normal practice).

*Also, in response to the whole Sunday sabbath thing: Christians don't worship on the Sabbath because that's the day that Christ rose. They worship that way because the early Catholic church decided to put it there. Mostly, it seems, it was a response to pressures to distance itself from the Jewish faith and force a choice upon those wavering between the two monotheistic religions. There are some (well, one that I know of - Seventh Day Adventists) faiths that reject the authority of the Church to make changes like this in cannon law. Saturday, Sunday, doesn't really seem to make much of a difference to me. Hell, go to church every day if you like. But I would recommend some of the early theologians to you - Augustine, Boethius, John Chrysostom - a look into their works can shed a lot of light into why Christians believe what they believe (I'm not even a believer, and I found them enlightening).

Answer 4

You are mistaken. Jesus died on a Wednesday. He was in the tomb all day Thursday, all day Friday and all day Saturday, and rose early on Sunday morning. The notion Jesus died on Friday is a religious tradition that is not based on any Biblical truth. The Sabbath before Jesus was buried was not the Friday Sabbath, but the special Sabbath day of the Feast of Passover.

The Jewish Day begins at 6:00PM, or sundown. Therefore Jesus died 3:00 PM on Wednesday, He was buried before sundown, in which case He would have been in the tomb Wednesday evening from 6:00 PM, or sundown until Thursday 6:00PM, or sundown that is, according to the Jewish pattern (evening and morning, one day (Genesis 1:5,8,etc)). He was therefore also in the tomb from Thursday 6:00PM, or sundown to Friday evening sundown, 6:00PM, evening and morning, a second day; and from Friday 6:00 PM, or sundown until Saturday 6:00PM, or sundown, evening and morning, a third day. Therefore He was 3 full days (and part of a fourth) in the tomb, rising some time before dawn on Sunday morning.

Answer 5

Jesus clearly died on Friday. Also, according to the Bible, he rose on Sunday (Mark 16:1-2).

As for the 3 days and 3 nights, in the first century, any fraction of a day could count as a "day" and the night that was associated with that day. This is seen in many verses.

Jesus died late on Friday. This portion of Friday counted as one of the three days. He was still dead on Saturday and Saturday night, the second day and night. He was dead only a very short time on Sunday. It was very early when the women came to the tomb, but Sunday day is still counted, and since he was dead part of Sunday, he was dead part of the date that is associated with Sunday night.

I could go into more detail, but to be brief, I will just reference an article that discusses this subject in depth. See the link below.

Answer 6

Interred Friday before sundown -- one day, though must of it was gone. Sunset to sunset of the Sabbath. That an undisdupate day and night. Overnight and into the next day. That's a second full night and part of a third day.

Answer 7

Let it go........believe what you have believed.

He rosed on the 3rd day!

“But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect,”

Answer 8

Numbers in the bible aren't meant to be accurate.

They are representations, like the number 40. Jesus really wasn't without food and water for forty days and nights; it was just considered the perfect number. All it meant was a really, really long time.

So the number three doesn't have to match up with our calendar. It could really mean anything.

Answer 9

Lol, skeptics have know this for years but Christians have made up an explaination for it, as you will soon see. Such liars. LOL>

Answer 10

A common reconing of time, any part of the day was considered a day.