Featured Mark 15:42.

On and on it seems we must suffer yet another discussion over what day something happened and miss the message of the gospel.

 

LOL, why do you constantly quibble over what day, rather than present the gospel message, just as Jesus did?

 

My thoughts.

From and the evening and the morning is the first day of Genesis 1:5 every seventh evening and morning was an appointed time by God, a holy convocation, a day of rest. Every sixth day was the preparation for the seventh day,

Methinks God showed his people this before the law was given in how the gathering of the manna was to be done. On the sixth day to prepare for the seventh day, a day of rest they gathered twice as much.

Also God had established seven annual days as a day of holy convocation, a day of rest. Those seven days also had a preparation day.

The preparation spoken of in Mark 15:42 was the day before the first annual, holy convocation, day of rest. The fifteenth day of the first month. The fourteenth day of the first month, the LORD"S passover was always a preparation day.

Decide for yourself what day of our Roman week that fell on for it would change, however IMHO I believe that particular preparation was on a Wednesday. ---- Here is why.

I believe the women rested on the fifteenth day of the first month, a holy convocation, a day of rest, During the morning hours of the sixteenth day of the first month they bought and prepared spices to anoint the body of Jesus but that took them all day and the weekly sabbath began that evening therefore they rested the weekly sabbath the seventeenth day of the first month per the commandment and then went to the tomb just before daylight on the eighteenth day of the first month the Roman Sunday.

BTW If I understand correctly, one duty of the fourteenth day of preparation was to clean and remove all leaven from one's house in preparing for the appointed time of unleavened bread beginning the evening of the fifteenth.

 

Here is a breakdown of what took place.
The Chronology of the Crucifixion Week by Wayne Carver

 

I read somewhere that due to the population surge in Jerusalem, southern Jews would begin their day at dawn, which allowed for Passover on Thursday. I have taken a brief glance across the net, but can't find anything to substantiate this.


God bless.

 

The distinction between sunup and sundown would be this: southern Jews could partake of Passover on Thursday, northern Jews on Friday. The Lord would have already partaken of Passover the evening before, whereas those who persecuted Him would do so the following evening. He would have been crucified on Friday, in my view, having partaken of Passover the previous evening.

I think one stumbling block some have is trying to take three says and three nights literally, where technically the Lord would have to be dead three 24 hour periods. This is a debate that will never go away, lol.

Suffice it to say that Christ died for us, rose again the Third Day, returned to Heaven and sent the Comforter that we might have life. What more do we need to know?

God bless.

 

On and on the quibbling spews forth, with nary a word about why Jesus laid down His life as a ransom for all.

 

That's just it: as I said I read this somewhere and cannot find the information now.

But it makes sense if we follow the account of Scripture: the Lord partakes of Passover, He teaches through the night, is taken, and the following day crucified. Both days are called the day of preparation ...

Matthew 26

17 Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?

18 And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.

19 And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover.

20 Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve.


Matthew 27:62
Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,

(If I read this correctly, this is the day after His crucifixion)


Mark 15

39 And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God.

40 There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;

41 (Who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered unto him and many other women which came up with him unto Jerusalem.

42 And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,

43 Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.


Luke 23

51 (The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.

52 This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.

53 And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.

54 And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.


Here we see ...

John 18

28 Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.


Those who crucify Christ have not yet partaken of Passover, whereas Christ and the discples had the previous evening. We know that the Lord did not violate the observance of Passover by eating it on the wrong day, thus in some way it is either acceptable for Passover to be observed within that 24 hour period, or, His enemies are in violation of its observance.

But we do see the disciples prepare the previous day, and it is on that day they observe Passover (that evening). For myself, a differing reckoning of the beginning of the Day makes sense, but, there is zero Scripture to support that. It would seem to me that the previous evening would have been Thursday. Some have made a case for Wednesday. The intervening teaching found in John 14-17 would seem to me to have taken place early Friday morning.


God bless.

 

For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: 1 Cor 15:3,4

John 11:9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.

I do a lot of wondering.

I wonder how many hours were in that day he rose? The seventeenth of Nissan
I wonder how many hours were in the day before? The sixteenth of Nissan
I wonder how many hours were in the day before? The fifteenth of Nissan

I wonder if the nights had any hours?