If Jesus was supposed to rise on the third day shouldn't it have been Monday?

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I don’t know , think about it if he died at 3 p.m. on Friday, Sunday would only be two days, right?
 
According to Jewish tradition, each sundown counts as a day, i.e. Friday is the first day (first sundown), Saturday is another day, and he rose on the third day as Sunday would have it’s own Sundown.
 
In those days, they started counting at one, not zero.
  1. Friday
  2. Saturday
  3. Sunday
The concept of zero was introduced to Europe several centuries after the first Easter.
 
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In those days, they started counting at one, not zero.
  1. Friday
  2. Saturday
  3. Sunday
The concept of zero was introduced to Europe several centuries after the first Easter.
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You’re making it more complicated than it needs to be. It has nothing to do with zero not being recognized as a number.

He died on Friday. He was in the tomb on Saturday. He was in the tomb Sunday and rose on that day. 1st day, 2nd day, 3rd day. 3 days doesn’t have to be a 72 hour period. If Jesus died in 1992 it would still have been 3 days that he was in the tomb. If I take a short vacation to a city a little bit south of me, I might leave Friday afternoon and return Sunday afternoon. I will have returned on the 3rd day. Nobody is going to question the accuracy of the statement unless they have an eccentric penchant towards naming things to the hour.
 
rose on the third day
  1. BURIED good friday
  2. Holy Saturday
  3. (third day) Risen. Happy Easter
 
There is a difference in how we count the number of days in modern day U.S. English compared to the ancient Roman world.

In our usage, we typically count the first event (hour, day, year, century) only if it is complete, disregarding the initial one if it is not complete–either that, or we count the hours until the equivalent of a full day has passed. For example, we say that a person is “one year old” only after 12 months from birth. A person who has lived for 9 and a half years we say is “age nine” but will not be “age ten” until completing ten full years.

Other cultures (the Roman and other ones that are biblically relevant to us) have a different method. A person who has lived for nine and a half years would be called “age ten.” What we call the 10th birthday, other cultures would call that the beginning of “age eleven.”

Same with days. Since Christ was placed in the tomb on Friday (even though very late in the day, almost Saturday), the Romans and Jews called that the first day–as long as even the smallest part of the day was included, it was considered the first day. Consequently, that makes Saturday the second day and Sunday the third.

Remember: we say that “He rose on the third day” rather than “after three full days.”
 
Beryllos said:
In those days, they started counting at one, not zero.

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The concept of zero was introduced to Europe several centuries after the first Easter.
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They certainly had the concept of zero.

If a Roman merchant had six amphorae of wine and sold all six, he did not then say to himself “By Jupiter, I have no concept of how many amphorae of wine I have left to sell, I am so confused!”

What they did not have was a symbol to represent the number or digit of zero in their written math.
 
jas84173 said:
I don’t know , think about it if he died at 3 p.m. on Friday, Sunday would only be two days, right?
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In Jewish tradition days begin at Sundown so The first day was Sundown Thursday to Sundown Friday. Jesus died at 3pm on Friday, before Sundown, so that was on the first day. The second day was Friday Sundown to Saturday Sundown when Jesus was in the grave. Jesus rose on the third day which happened between Sundown Saturday to Sundown Sunday which is also why we celebrate the Lord’s day after Sundown on Saturday and before Sundown on Sunday. This is part of our Judeo-Christian heritage.
 
He spent the least amount of time possible in the tomb in order to fulfill the rising on the third day prophesy.
 
FrDavid96 said:
There is a difference in how we count the number of days in modern day U.S. English compared to the ancient Roman world.

In our usage, we typically count the first event (hour, day, year, century) only if it is complete, disregarding the initial one if it is not complete–either that, or we count the hours until the equivalent of a full day has passed. For example, we say that a person is “one year old” only after 12 months from birth. A person who has lived for 9 and a half years we say is “age nine” but will not be “age ten” until completing ten full years.

Other cultures (the Roman and other ones that are biblically relevant to us) have a different method. A person who has lived for nine and a half years would be called “age ten.” What we call the 10th birthday, other cultures would call that the beginning of “age eleven.”

Same with days. Since Christ was placed in the tomb on Friday (even though very late in the day, almost Saturday), the Romans and Jews called that the first day–as long as even the smallest part of the day was included, it was considered the first day. Consequently, that makes Saturday the second day and Sunday the third.

Remember: we say that “He rose on the third day” rather than “after three full days.”
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It is true that one should not take method of counting as absolutes, no matter how logical your method would look to you. Chinese for instance traditionally attribute an infant as ‘one year old’ on the day of birth. It gets even more confusing to Western minds that traditionally Chinese celebrate birthday en masse: everyone add one year to their age on the same day of the year - the 7th day of the Lunar New Year. So if you were born on the 6th day of the Lunar Year, you will be two years old the next day.

The point is that there is a diversity of counting methods.
 
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