Was Jesus' resurrection on a Saturday or a Sunday (you be the judge, read the details, its different)?

Question

A late-afternoon Good Friday crucifixion to an EasterSunday morning resurrection equals one full day. The proper translation of Matthew 28:1 by the Ferrar Fenton translation
correctly renders this verse: "After the Sabbaths [plural], towards the dawn of the day following the Sabbaths [plural], Mary, the Magdalene, & the other Mary, came to examine the tomb." There were, in fact two Sabbaths that particular week. Keep in mind back then, a Holy Day Sabbath could fall on any day of the week. When you translate the plural Greek word sabbaton in Matthew 28:1 its sabbaths. This means on the 3rd day & night He was resurrected before the sunlight of dawn, which puts us back to the actual time of resurrection as being the end of the weekly Sabbath at the time of sunset on Saturday. Our traditions have us celebrating it on a Sunday. Yet there is no mention of Easter in the Bible. WHAT IS YOUR OPINION ON THIS? In any event Jesus is the Messiah and He did rise from the dead after 3 days.

Answer 1

Actually if you (Luke 4:4)follow every word of your Bible; Jesus's resurrection was Saturday as you've stated.

JESUS'S DEATH
**JESUS DIED WEDNESDAY APRIL 14, 31AD at 3pm.

A good foundation (1Tim.6:19) has solid ground evidence. The foundation should include 2Tim.3:16; Isaiah 28:9-10; 2Peter 1:19-21; 1Thess.5:20-21 & Ephes.5:9-10,13. To understand deeply--you must use these websites:
http://www.bbmhp.org/visaids/nt/crucweek.html
http://lcg.org/search/search.php?query=sunday&%24results_per_page=10&search=1

If you read Daniel 9:27; it says "he died in the middle of the week"; that would be Wednesday. This is followed by "3 days & 3 nights" = Matthew 12:40 which equals 1-24hr.day x 3days equals 72hrs. in grave. Next the Bible tells us it would be "after 3days and "not before = Matt.27:63-64 and Mark 8:31. It tells us in three days (John 2:19-21) and not after. The Bible also reminds us a day is 12hrs. not including the night(John 11:9-10). Remember also Gen.1:5 and Lev.23:32 tells us "evening to evening" is considered to be a day.

HEBREW CALENDAR-month of Abib or Nisan (APRIL 31AD)

Wednesday 14
Lord's Supper--Tues.Even
Put in grave Wed.Even
LEV.23:5--[14TH DAY=PASSOVER]
DAN.9:27--["DIED IN MIDST OF WEEK"]
JOHN 13:1; 18:39--[FEAST OF PASSOVER]
JOHN 19:14,31--[PREPARATION OF PASSOVER; NEXT DAY WAS A SABBATH HIGH DAY]
LUKE 22:13--[PASSOVER]
MATT.27:57--[EVENING CAME AND JOSEPH BEGGED THE BODY OF JESUS]
MARK 14:12; 15:42--[PREPARE TO EAT PASSOVER; THE DAY BEFORE THE SABBATH]]
LUKE 23:54--[SABBATH DREW ON]

Dictionary: Drew=to pull or drag. On=over & in contact with.

Thursday 15
Wed.Even= 1night
Thurs.Even=1day
Annual Sabbath
Feast of Unleavened Bread
NO WORK!
EXODUS 13:3,4,6,7--[NO LEAVENED BREAD; MONTH OF ABIB; ONLY EAT UNLEAVENED BREAD FOR 7 DAYS]
LEVITICUS 23:6-7--[15TH DAY; HOLY CONVOCATION]
MATT.27:63-64--[AFTER 3 DAYS]
**CLUE = MATT.26:5 --[NOT ON THE FEAST DAY]
ISAIAH 66:23

Friday 16
THURS. EVEN= 1 NIGHT
FRIDAY EVEN = 1DAY
PREPARATION DAY
MARK 16:1--[probably Thurs.Even--BOUGHT SPICES AFTER SABBATH]
LUKE 23:56--[PREPARED SPICES BEFORE WEEKLY SABBATH]
**NOTES--YOU HAVE TO BUY BEFORE YOU CAN PREPARE! ALSO IT TAKES ALL DAY TO PREPARE SPICES!

Saturday 17
FRIDAY EVEN=1 NIGHT
SAT.EVEN= JESUS ROSE! = 1 DAY
WEEKLY SABBATH
"SEVENTH DAY"= 7TH DAY
NO WORK!
GEN.2:2
EXOD.20:8-11
LEV.23:3
HEB.3:18-19; 4:1-11
MARK 2:27-28
REV.14:7,12
**NOTES= SABBATH IN ENCYCLOPAEDIA AMERICANA, VOL.24, PP.68-69 AND/OR DICTIONARY.

Sunday 18
SAT.EVEN
SUN.EVEN
"FIRST DAY"= 1ST DAY
GENESIS 1:5
MATT.28:1,6,13
MARK 16:6,9
LUKE 24:1,3,6
JOHN 20:1,19
**NOTE: COULDN'T OF BOUGHT BECAUSE MARY & MARY MAGDALENE WENT TO THE GRAVE AFTER THE SABBATH.
THE NEW AMERICAN ROGET'S COLLEGE THESAURUS--
DAWN=DARK, EVENING, TWILIGHT, ETC.

Now I know this is true because the MAJORITY(Matt.7:13) is always wrong. Also there's many clues that it wasn't a Friday crucifixion and a Sunday resurrection; look at 2Tim.2:18. But you will point out Mark 16:9 which says "Now when Jesus was risen[the perfect tense is correct here--he was already risen] early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene." Now the original Greek didn't have no punctuation. If the King James translators put a comma after the word "risen" and not after "week", this would make complete sense. The Centenary Translation renders it this way: "Now after his resurrection, early on the first day of the week he appeared first to Mary Magdalene
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As for Easter---see this below.

EASTER NOT FOUND IN THE BIBLE
"The English word 'Easter' came from the Anglo-Saxon Eastre or Estera, a Teutonic goddess to whom sacrifice was offered in April, so the name was transferred to the Pashal Feast. The word does not properly occur in Scripture although the AV (King James Translation) has it in ACTS 12:4 where it stands for 'Passover' as it is rightly rendered in RV (Revised Version). There is no trace of Easter celebration in the New Testament..." (INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BIBLE ENCYCLOPEDIA VOL.2, P.889). The word 'Easter' has confused some but the word in the original form is "Pascha" meaning "Passover". It occurs 29 times in the New Testament & everytime it's translated Passover except in Acts 12:4. If you read carefully (ACTS 12:1-4); it says that Herod killed James and was trying to kill Peter in an effort to "vex the church"(Please the Jews). Then in VERSE 3 "were the days of unleavened bread"; see LEV.23. He put him in prison intending to try him "after Easter" (KJV). Now if Herod was trying to "please the Jews" & "vex the church" Why would he have delayed the trial until after 'Easter?'" If this was a "christian holy day", especially one in honoring Christ's resurrection, he would surely not be pleasing the Jews, Wouldn't it be more pleasing to the Jews to vex the church by killing one of it's Apostles on it's own "holy-day," would it not?

ORIGIN OF EASTER: WHERE DID IT COME FROM?
Easter was never observed by the Apostles of Christ or Christ's Religion. "The name 'Easter' comes to us from the mythlogical writings of the Ancient Teucrians (who lived 1200BC along the southern coast of Palestine) where it's known as 'Ostern'" BY GROVER STEVENS. "The name 'Easter' is merely the slightly changed English spelling of the name of the ancient Assyrian and Babylonian idol goddess, Ishtar (pronounced eesh-tar)." WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY says "Easter is from the pre-historic name of a pagan spring festival." THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH ETYMOLOGY says, "Easter is derived from the name of goddess whose feast was celebrated at the vernal equinox." THE SCHOLARY NEW SCHAFF-HERZOG RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA says, "This goddess is also widely known as Astarte...The cult originated in Babylonia and spread to Assyria, Mesopotamia, Syria & Palestine, then through the Phoenicians to all of the Meditteranean peoples...Ishtar was in fact primarily and chiefly identified as Venus, the most beautiful of celestial objects & from the terrestrial side, the primarily motive of the worship of Ishtar was the impulse to deify sensuous and sensuality." ALEXANDER HISLOP SAYS IN THE TWO BABYLONS (P.103), "Easter bears its Chaldean origin on its forehead. Easter is nothing else than Asarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the queen of heaven..."
http://family.webshots.com/photo/1370351068049373547hLMhYB
http://www.matrifocus.com/IMB04/spotlight.htm
http://www.albatrus.org/english/festivals/easter/is_easter_pagan.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar
http://www.lcg.org/search/search.php?query=easter&type=and&results=10&search=1

VERSES-- DEUT.4:19,28-31; 11:26-28; 17:3 & GAL.4:8-10.

Answer 2

Jesus died on a Friday night, because the Jewish leaders needed it all to be done before the start of the Sabbath, which was the next day and was the most sacred Sabbath Day on the Jewish calendar, as it was to be the observance of Passover. The very next day, the day after the Sabbath, is the day that the women went to see the tomb of Jesus to put the ointments on His body and found it to be empty, and then discovered that He was resurrected from the dead. An interesting note on the Greek word sabbaton, which is put in the plural here in Matthew 28:1: sabbaton is often found in the plural form in the New Testament. Therefore, you cannot reason from this one instance of it being in the plural that it must refer to more than one Sabbath day having passed, because this is not an isolated incident since there are multiple times that this word is in the plural and yet is singular in meaning. Thus, Jesus' resurrection happened on the Sunday immediately the Passover, which was on the third day following His death on the cross.

Answer 3

A question before i comment. Who rendered the Ferrar Fenton translation of the Bible the correct or "proper" one?
Sabbath is from sunset to sunset. This means the sabbath starts Friday at sunset and ends saturday at sunset. I think the belief is that the day doesn't really start at 12:00am but at sunset each day and ends at sunset the other day. It may be a bit confusing but Jesus actually rose on sunday.

Answer 4

The only mention of Easter in the Bible is in Acts 12:4 (KJV), and it indicates that Herod observed Easter (note in verse 3 that Peter was taken during the Days of Unleavened Bread, which immediately follows Passover).

The crucifixion was Wednesday. Thursday was a high holy day (First Day Unleavened Bread), then there was Friday, then Saturday. So it's Wednesday-Saturday.

Friday to Sunday does not satisfy the three days, three nights. Wednesday to Saturday does.

Answer 5

"A late-afternoon Good Friday crucifixion to an EasterSunday morning resurrection equals one full day."

That is OUR rendering of time, but NOT what was common then. Any PORTION of a day counted as a day...

Death Friday afternoon, entombment Friday evening, just before Sabbath began at sunset. This gives us 2 days by their rendering. Sunset Saturday brings us: the 1st day of the week and the 3rd day in the tomb.

... And you are quite right. Easter is NOWHERE in scripture, except the kjv's deliberate mistranslation of Acts 12:4.

Your translator DOES NOT UNDERSTAND COMMON USAGE...

Luke 4:16 Jesus went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. On the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue as he usually did. And he stood up to read.

Acts 13:13 From Paphos, Paul and his companions sailed to Perga in Pamphylia. There John left them and returned to Jerusalem. 14 From Perga they went on to Pisidian Antioch. On the Sabbath day they entered the synagogue and sat down.

Acts 16:13 On the Sabbath day we went outside the city gate. We walked down to the river. There we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered together.

These passages ALL have the SAME EXACT PLURAL FORM "sabbaton."

The translation you cite is very wrong...

Answer 6

Jesus was put in the grave on the day before passover. The last supper was NOT the passover. This was the reason his legs were broke, jews would not allow crucifiction on a sabbath so they had to make sure Jesus died quickly. There is also a mistranslation as to when mary came to the tomb. You see, the Jewish day begins at sundown therefore mary did not come to the tomb at "dawn" on the first day, she came at sundown, the start of the first day.

Answer 7

We just have to understand what a day means in Jewish days. Thursday night to us is actually the 6th day. Friday night is the 7th day. Saturday night is the 1st day.

We cannot take a look at the Bible and fail to forget there are differences in customs and contexts. We're reading about a foreign land here. When a foreigner comes in the US and hears the word "cool" -- they'll think its about temperature instead of a social phrase.

Hope that helps! You can read more about Jesus and His historical records in the source below.

Answer 8

He did resurrect that Sunday morning. No more than you would keep Friday in honor of the crucifixion. Christ gave the ordinance of baptism in honor of His death, burial, and resurrection. The Bible never suggests Sundaykeeping in honor of the resurrection (or for any other reason, for that matter). We honor Christ by obeying Him (John 14:15)--not by substituting man-made requirements in place of His.

And he shall think to change the times and the law." Daniel 7:25, RSV.* "Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition." "In vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." Matthew 15:6, 9. "Her priests have violated my law." "And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, ... saying, Thus saith the Lord God, when the Lord hath not spoken." Ezekiel 22:26, 28.

Misguided men of long years past announced that God's holy day was changed from Sabbath to Sunday. God predicted it would happen, and it did. This error was passed on to our unsuspecting generation as gospel fact. Sundaykeeping is a tradition of uninspired men and breaks God's law, which commands Sabbathkeeping. Only God can make a day holy. God blessed the Sabbath, and when God blesses, no man can "reverse it." Numbers 23:20.

Why do we celebrate Eastern anyway when most christian already worship God on Sunday. It makes no since! Christian already celebrate his resurraction every Sunday!

Answer 9

It is my understanding of the scriptures, that Jesus was crucified on Wednesday and resurrected 3 days later on Sunday. I did read the word "Easter" once in the NT, I think it was in Acts, which struck me as odd as its the only place its mentioned.

Answer 10

Doesn"t Matter/ The Resurrection of Jesus is Good enough
for Me.It did take place ,Therefore Hope for Mankind.

Answer 11

It says what it says. And I do not count three full days by the telling of it. I can accept that He rose, but I think that there is a mystery to unfold and I think that it has something to do with the Church.