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Matt.12:38-40, then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: 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.

**“3 DAYS & 3 NIGHTS”**Today has been set aside as the day we acknowledge as Resurrection Day
HE SUFFERED, BLEED & DIED, HE WAS BURIED in a BORROWED TOMB! And AROSE after the 3rd, DAY! (Not 1& a half, 2 or 2 & a half – but 3 days and 3 nights.

**Mk.8:31, …**a*nd *after three days rise again.

1 Corinthians 15:4, And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

This was from an anticatholic forum I was reading at. How do we explain the 3 days, apologies if this has been covered before.

Michelle
 
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This was from an anticatholic forum I was reading at. How do we explain the 3 days, apologies if this has been covered before.

Michelle
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In the Bible, parts of time units were frequently counted as wholes. Thus a king might be said to have reigned for two years, even if he reigned for only fourteen months. In the same way, a day and a night does not mean a period of twenty-four hours. It can refer to any portion of a day coupled with any portion of a night. The expression “three days and three nights” could be used as simply a slightly hyperbolic way of referring to “three days.”

As Protestant Bible scholar R. T. France notes: “Three days and three nights was a Jewish idiom to a period covering only two nights” (Matthew, 213).

Similarly, D. A. Carson, regarded as one of the deans of conservative Protestant Bible exegesis, explains: “In rabbinical thought a day and a night make an onah, and a part of an onah is as the whole. . . . Thus according to Jewish tradition, ‘three days and three nights’ need mean no more than ‘three days’ or the combination of any part of three separate days” (Expositor’s Bible Commentary, 8:296).

If Jesus was crucified and died Friday afternoon, that would be the first day; at sundown on Friday the second day would begin; then at sundown on Saturday the third day would begin. So Jesus was indeed “raised on the third day” (Matt. 20:19).

source:
catholic.com/thisrock/1999/9903chap.asp
 
Mt 20:19 is not the only verse that states Jesus will rise on the **third **day. See:

Mt 16:21;
Mt 17:22;
Mk 9:30;
Mk 10:34;
Lk 9:22;
Lk 18:33;
Lk 24:7; and
Lk 24:46
 
From Haydock’s Catholic commentary on Matthew 12:40:

Three days and three nights; not three whole days and three whole nights, but part of three natural days, from which, in common computation, the night used not to be separated. We have an instance of this, Esther 4:16, where the Jews were ordered to fast with her for three days, and three nights: and yet (5:1) Esther, after part of three days, went to the king.
 
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This was from an anticatholic forum I was reading at. How do we explain the 3 days, apologies if this has been covered before.

Michelle
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This has nothing to do you with your topic, but I thought I would G’day and God bless you and your 12 kiddies, WOW you dont hear of many people having that many kids nowadays, good for you. Very inspiring. 👍

Back to the topic. Sorry just my :twocents:
 
It’s been covered a couple of times. My exhaustive answer here.

An equivalent phrase “after eight days” or “eight days later” (John 20:26) means Sunday to Sunday. Only part of the Sundays are required for “eight days.” Same with “after three days” (Mark 8:31, etc) only part of Friday and part of Sunday is required for “three days.”

So “three days and three nights” equals “after three days” or “on the third day.” From W.E. Vine Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words (a Protestant Hebrew/Greek dictionary) :

“In Mark 9:31 and 10:34 the best texts have -meta tresi hemeras-, ‘after three days,’ which idiomatically expresses the same thing as -te trite hemera- ‘on the third day,’ which some texts have here as, e.g. the phrase ‘the third day’ in Matt 17:23; 20:19; Luke 9:22; 18:33, where the repetition of the article lends stress to the number, lit. ‘the day the third’; 24:7,46; Acts 10:40.” (Vine, page 631)

The scholarly Theological Dictionary of the New Testament referred to as TDNT, edited by Gerhard Kittel, under “DAY” :

"The difficulty has often been advanced that there is a discrepancy between the ‘on the third day’] of Matthew, Luke, and Paul and the usual ‘after three days’] of Mark. But in this connection it has to be remembered that difficulties always arise in the reckoning of days according to Jewish usage. Thus

’in Halachic statements PART of a day is reckoned as a WHOLE day’

[Footnote has rabbinic source Str-B I,649 and the original Hebrew ‘part of a day counts as a whole day’ e.g. bNazir 5b; Pes 4,2]

"and already in the first century A.D. we read: ‘A day and a night constitute a -onah- ([Hebrew for] a full day), and part of a -onah- counts as a whole -onah-’ (jShab 12a,15,17)

“IT IS IN THIS LIGHT THAT WE ARE TO UNDERSTAND MATTHEW 12:40…Thus the Marcan narrative ‘after three days’] means that Friday and the night up to the resurrection are each counted as a day, while Matthew, Luke and Paul…use a mode of expression ‘on the third day’] which would be regarded as more correct by Greeks. Both forms are found in close proximity in Matthew 27:63f…” (Theological Dictionary of the New Testament [TDNT], volume 2, page 949f)

[Footnote 30 also refers to Josephus “inclusive” reckoning of days and references are given: Antiquities 7:280f; 8:214/218; 5:17]

I looked these sources up myself long ago when I was challenged to prove the Friday-Sunday chronology.

Phil P
 
Thankyou guys! I knew there would be afailry straight forward answer. Actually I think somewherein the dark recesses of my memory I have heard that explanation before.
This has nothing to do you with your topic, but I thought I would G’day and God bless you and your 12 kiddies, WOW you dont hear of many people having that many kids nowadays, good for you. Very inspiring. 👍
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Thanks! Hey do you want to see them http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b6dc20b3127cce9750a2e749ea00000016108AZNm7Ro4bNn
 
From left to right
back row: Caleb 12, Mary 13, Nathan 15 and Joshua 17 holding Gabriel 15mths
front row: Benjamin 18 holding Elizabeth 2 1/2, Isaiah 4, Ezekiel 6, Zachary 7, Noah 8, and Tobias 10.
 
Thankyou guys! I knew there would be afailry straight forward answer. Actually I think somewherein the dark recesses of my memory I have heard that explanation before.
This has nothing to do you with your topic, but I thought I would G’day and God bless you and your 12 kiddies, WOW you dont hear of many people having that many kids nowadays, good for you. Very inspiring. 👍
Click to expand...
Thanks! Hey do you want to see them http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b6dc20b3127cce9750a2e749ea00000016108AZNm7Ro4bNn
 
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bejonama:
From left to right
back row: Caleb 12, Mary 13, Nathan 15 and Joshua 17 holding Gabriel 15mths
front row: Benjamin 18 holding Elizabeth 2 1/2, Isaiah 4, Ezekiel 6, Zachary 7, Noah 8, and Tobias 10.
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I love Bible names!
 
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