Just a thought for you scholars out there: With few exceptions, Christendom observes "Good Friday" as the day Jesus Christ was crucified. A few believe that Jesus was crucified on Thursday, and a few more hold to the opnion that He was crucified on Wednesday.
The term itself, "Good Friday," is a mispronunciation of Gott Friday, which is German for "God's Friday."
Jesus said in Matthew 12:40, "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." If, as the vast majority of Christendom believes, Jesus was crucified on Friday, then His body would have lain in the tomb only twenty-four to twenty-six hours - one night and one day.
Was Jesus crucified on Good Friday? Does it make any difference?
Just a thought for you scholars out there: With few exceptions, Christendom observes "Good Friday" as the day Jesus Christ was crucified. A few believe that Jesus was crucified on Thursday, and a few more hold to the opnion that He was crucified on Wednesday.
The term itself, "Good Friday," is a mispronunciation of Gott Friday, which is German for "God's Friday."
Jesus said in Matthew 12:40, "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." If, as the vast majority of Christendom believes, Jesus was crucified on Friday, then His body would have lain in the tomb only twenty-four to twenty-six hours - one night and one day.
Was Jesus crucified on Good Friday? Does it make any difference?
No, Jesus was not crucified on 'good Friday'. It's not a salvation issue so in that case it makes no difference.
I will ask Him when I see Him. I do not know if the exactitude is necessarily a requirement here. Did not God tell Abraham that his descendants would be slaves for four hundred years? Yet they were slaves for 430 years. Whether or not Jesus was actually in the tomb for a precise 72 hours is beside the point.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
Just a thought for you scholars out there: With few exceptions, Christendom observes "Good Friday" as the day Jesus Christ was crucified. A few believe that Jesus was crucified on Thursday, and a few more hold to the opnion that He was crucified on Wednesday.
The term itself, "Good Friday," is a mispronunciation of Gott Friday, which is German for "God's Friday."
Jesus said in Matthew 12:40, "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." If, as the vast majority of Christendom believes, Jesus was crucified on Friday, then His body would have lain in the tomb only twenty-four to twenty-six hours - one night and one day.
Was Jesus crucified on Good Friday? Does it make any difference?
Were days/nights measured then, in the same amount of time that
they are now?
Were days/nights measured then, in the same amount of time that
they are now?
Well in Acts 2 two we read of the third hour of the day. Which some assume to be 9 AM. I think a day was measured by the sun rising and setting, not sure if it is like our 24 hour day. Sure miss Pelathais around here sometimes, he could probably tell us.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
"The three days and three nights seems to be a figure of speech. We do know that in Rabinnic thought any part of a day and a night was seen as the whole. They would use the term of a "day and a night" for any part of one. Notice we never hear about 40 days and 39 nights, or 3 days and 4 nights. It would seem quite strange that all the days rounded so nicely. If we do not understand it this way, then there really seems to be no way to reconcile it. Jesus was not burried for 3 24-hour periods. It is true that some put the crucifixion on a Wednesday. This is however a minority position among scholars and it still does not solve the issue. Wednesday plus three days still only brings us to Saturday. It seems best to understand Jesus' statement in light of the Rabinnic thought." http://www.onenesspentecostal.com/threedays.htm
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Every sinner must repent of their sins.
That Jesus name baptism is the only biblical mode of water baptism.
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The saint will go on to strive to live a holy life, pleasing to God.
Jesus died and was taken down from the cross on the "preparation day" (Greek, paraskeue) - Mark 15:42; Luke 23:54; John 19:31. This day could refer to the day before a Sabbath or the day before a holiday.
However, this particular preparation day is specifically said to be "the day before the Sabbath" – Mark 15:42.
Occasionally, the Sabbath would not fall on the last day of the week (Saturday).
However, this particular Sabbath immediately preceded the first day of the week (Sunday) - Matt. 28:1. Therefore it must have been a Saturday and the preparation day must have been Friday.
Although a new day for us officially begins at midnight, the Jews began a new day at sunset.
Therefore, after the sun set on Saturday, Sunday began.
Jesus rose sometime before sunrise on Sunday morning - Matt. 28:1; Luke 24:1.
Jesus said elsewhere that he would rise "on the third day" - Matt. 16:21; 17:23; 20:19; Luke 9:22; 18:33; 24:7; 24:46. Sunday was the third day.
Finally, Jesus is specifically said to have risen "on the first day of the week" (Sunday, emphasis added) - Mark 16:9. (Although the longer ending of Mark is textually suspect, even most scholars who do not consider it canonical do see it as an accurate account of history).
Jesus was in the tomb for parts of three days according to Jewish reckoning – the end of Friday, all day Saturday and part of Sunday.
Was Jesus crucified on "Good Friday?"
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