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I’m sure this has been asked many times but I must ask again: Was Christ crucified on Thursday or Friday? Because Friday through Sunday morning isn’t three days and three nights.
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batteddy
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Never claimed to be three days and three nights. It said he would rise on “the third day”…which is Sunday. This is how the ancients reckoned their dating. As a latin student who knows about Roman dating, I can confirm this. They counted inclusively.
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The_Catholic
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Really? I have to get my Bible because I could have sworn it was suppose to be three days and nights. Well thanks though.
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The Catholic:
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This came up very recently in another thread:I’m sure this has been asked many times but I must ask again: Was Christ crucified on Thursday or Friday? Because Friday through Sunday morning isn’t three days and three nights.
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The Catholic:
Luke 23:52-54
Jewish days are counted from sundown to sundown, so we know from the Gospels that Jesus was arrested and tried after the sundown that began the fourteenth of Nisan, and that he died shortly before the sundown that ended the fourteenth of Nisan. Luke says that the “sabbath was beginning” when Jesus was placed in the tomb, that is, the fifteenth of Nisan was beginning. Most Jews ate their Pasch after the sundown that began the fifteenth of Nisan. Luke also mentions that the fifteenth of Nisan was a “sabbath”.
The fifteenth of Nisan was considered a “sabbath”, and if the Jewish lunar calandar had been followed that set the day of the week of the fifteenth of Nisan, that particular day could fall on any day of the week. But we also know from Jewish sources that the Sadducees that controlled the Temple were corrupt, and that they ignored the Jewish calendar, and instead, these corrupt men always made sure that the fifteenth of Nisan was celebrated on an ordinary weekday sabbath. Knowing this piece of historical information lets us fix with certainty that Jesus died before the sun went down on what we reckon as a Friday.
CCC 1170 At the Council of Nicaea in 325, all the Churches agreed that Easter, the Christian Passover, should be celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon (14 Nisan) after the vernal equinox. Because of the different methods of calculating the 14th day of the month of Nisan, the date of Easter in the Western and Eastern Churches is not always the same. For this reason, the Churches are currently seeking an agreement in order once again to celebrate the day of the Lord’s Resurrection on a common date.
We know from the Gospels that Jesus died in the waning hours of the fourteenth of Nisan, i.e. the “day of Preparation”.This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then he took it down and wrapped it in a linen shroud, and laid him in a rock-hewn tomb, where no one had ever yet been laid. It was the day of Preparation, and the sabbath was beginning.I’m sure this has been asked many times but I must ask again: Was Christ crucified on Thursday or Friday?
Luke 23:52-54
Jewish days are counted from sundown to sundown, so we know from the Gospels that Jesus was arrested and tried after the sundown that began the fourteenth of Nisan, and that he died shortly before the sundown that ended the fourteenth of Nisan. Luke says that the “sabbath was beginning” when Jesus was placed in the tomb, that is, the fifteenth of Nisan was beginning. Most Jews ate their Pasch after the sundown that began the fifteenth of Nisan. Luke also mentions that the fifteenth of Nisan was a “sabbath”.
The fifteenth of Nisan was considered a “sabbath”, and if the Jewish lunar calandar had been followed that set the day of the week of the fifteenth of Nisan, that particular day could fall on any day of the week. But we also know from Jewish sources that the Sadducees that controlled the Temple were corrupt, and that they ignored the Jewish calendar, and instead, these corrupt men always made sure that the fifteenth of Nisan was celebrated on an ordinary weekday sabbath. Knowing this piece of historical information lets us fix with certainty that Jesus died before the sun went down on what we reckon as a Friday.
CCC 1170 At the Council of Nicaea in 325, all the Churches agreed that Easter, the Christian Passover, should be celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon (14 Nisan) after the vernal equinox. Because of the different methods of calculating the 14th day of the month of Nisan, the date of Easter in the Western and Eastern Churches is not always the same. For this reason, the Churches are currently seeking an agreement in order once again to celebrate the day of the Lord’s Resurrection on a common date.
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