Similarly, D. 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. This is why the women were not able to anoint his body before he was buried—because Jesus was hurriedly buried late in the afternoon, just as the Sabbath was beginning.
The women thus had to rest until the Sabbath was over Luke Some advocates of a Wednesday crucifixion concede that Jesus was crucified on the day before a Sabbath, but deny that this was the regular, weekly Sabbath. Thus Jesus was crucified on the day before Passover and had to be buried hurriedly on that account.
But this explanation will not do. He was tried in the early hours of Friday, He entered Jerusalem on the Monday, Nisan 10 which had begun Sunday 6pm and was crucified on Friday Nisan 15, by Galilean reckoning, Nisan14 by Judean reckoning , the day of preparation. He was laid in the tomb on the same day, and was in the tomb all of the Sabbath.
The women who came to the Tomb came early on the first day of the week Sunday , the same day on which He rose. Four passages Matt.
Other examples include Genesis , 1 Kings , 2 Chronicles , 1 Samuel Rabbinical sources also show this. Rabbi Eleazar ben Azariah c A. The Wednesday crucifixion requires that Jesus have ridden into Jerusalem on the Saturday, which would have been another Sabbath violation, as would the cutting down of palm branches.
There is simply no evidence that Nisan 15 the day after Passover was a day on which no one worked. Nowhere in the Gospels does it assert that Christ was crucified on a Friday. The Jews had other sabbaths in addition to the weekly shabbat Saturday.
If Passover, the 14th of Nisan, fell earlier in the week, the 15th could have been any day prior to Saturday, the weekly sabbath. Some hold to a Thursday crucifixion on a similar basis. Also, in their flight after Passover, Israel retrieved the body of Joseph from his tomb. If the Friday view can be accepted, then six days earlier was the weekly shabbat, and on this day such a journey was legally out of the question for a devout Jew.
As for the Friday or Wednesday issue, there are many good scholars on each side of this controversy. I personally have become rather cynical toward any tradition that is not supported by Scripture. Wednesdayrians point out the Greek word for Sabbath in Matt is plural — after the Sabbaths. Their explanation is that there were clearly two Sabbaths. But this does not rule out the possibility of both Sabbaths falling on the same day.
According to the Friday view, the annual rest day Sabbath after the Passover fell on a Saturday and coincided with the weekly Sabbath. For some interesting discussions on plural Sabbaths in the Greek, check out these two sites. Luke So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up.
And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day Sabbaton, plural , and stood up to read. Luke Now it happened on the second Sabbath Sabbatou, singular after the first that He went through the grainfields. And His disciples plucked the heads of grain and ate them, rubbing them in their hands. Luke shows Jesus entering the synagogue on the Sabbath Gr.
Sabbaton — plural. In Luke , we see Jesus picking grain on the Sabbath Gr. Sabbatou — singular. Clearly they are both referring to single days, yet in one case the plural Sabbaton is used while in the other, the singular Sabbatou. There are two possible explanations for this. Or it is possible that the event in Luke occurred on a weekly Sabbath which coincided with an annual Sabbath, hence the plural. Wednesdayrians claim that there were too many events to fit into the Friday crucifixion timeline.
The most notable one they allude to is the purchasing of spices. They point to two scriptures. Luke Then they returned and prepared spices and fragrant oils. And they rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment. Luke Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they, and certain other women with them, came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared.
Luke says they went home and prepared spices, then rested on the Sabbath. Mark says when the Sabbath was over, they bought spices and came to anoint him. So how could they prepare the spices before the Sabbath, yet purchase the spices after the Sabbath? According to them, this only makes sense if there were two separate Sabbaths. They purchased the spices after the 1 st Sabbath Mark , which would be on Friday, then prepared the spices that same day Luke , then rested on the weekly Sabbath.
Then they brought the spices which were prepared the next day Luke They actually consider this to be definitive proof of two separate Sabbaths. So their order of events is Mark — Luke — Luke ; Mark They have a time gap between Mark and Mark , because the latter occurs on the 1 st day of the week, while according to them, Mark occurred two days earlier.
Again a natural reading of these passages would not lead anyone to believe there was a time gap there. There is no such indicator in Mark of a time gap. Another difficult with their view is that Luke is clearly part of the burial narrative, while Luke 24 and Mark 16 are clearly resurrection narratives. They have Mark and Luke both occurring 2 days after the crucifixion, but before the resurrection.
Again this does not come from a natural reading of the scriptures. This is why the majority of Christians do not believe it. On the day Jesus was buried, Nicodemus brought some spices to the burial site John The reason they could not anoint his body right there and then is because there was not sufficient time left in that day. They had to come back another time. The bible only has her visiting the tomb on Sunday morning, when his body would have already begun to decompose.
That would have made so much more sense. Is it possible that Mary did go on Friday, then again on Sunday? The answer is highly unlikely. For one the Bible does not say so. Also if Mary had been there on the Friday, she would have known that Pilate had placed guards to look over the tomb.
Yet in Mark while they were on their way to the tomb on Sunday morning, they were wondering to themselves who would help them roll away the stone. If they knew there would be guards there, all they had to do was ask them. Then in John , when Mary found the empty tomb and was weeping because she did not know where they had moved his body, again if she knew there were guards, she would have just looked for them to ask them where the body was. When Jesus started talking to her, she thought he was the gardener.
If she knew there were guards, she would have expected a guard, not the gardener. This makes no sense if there was an entire Friday in which she could have and should have anointed his body. Either Mary is a neglectful person, or the Wednesdayrian view is wrong.
So how could all those events fit into the Friday crucifixion timeline? Very easy. Nicodemus brought spices to the tomb on the burial day Friday afternoon. The women prepared spices that same day Luke , but could not anoint the body because there was insufficient time left in the day.
They rested the next day, which was the Sabbath. Then they realized that they did not have enough spices, so sometime between Saturday 6pm and Sunday 6am, they bought some more. Further, there is no indication that Luke and Mark are even talking about the same women. Mark and Luke could have been describing two separate but related events. These verses do not pose a problem for Fridayfolk. They certainly do not prove that there were two separate Sabbaths.
But the Wednesday scenario requires a lot of reconstruction that does not come out of a natural reading of the scriptures. It also does not fit with Luke and Mark If someone just read the bible alone without the help of any commentary or code book, a Friday crucifixion fits best with what the Gospel writers reveal to us.
Wednesdayrians are too literal in their reading of Matt They insist that Jesus needed to be in the tomb for 3 literal days and nights or 72 hours.
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