resurrection

DYK? When was Jesus' crucifixion by paula yingst

For decades I was uncomfortable with the Christian tradition that says Jesus was crucified on Friday and was resurrected on Sunday. I wondered, How can that be when He said several times before He died that He would be in the grave for THREE DAYS. That Christian tradition did not make sense to me.

Then I discovered Robert W. Faid's book, "A Scientific Approach to Bible Mysteries" (ISBN 0-98221-231-4), which gives this explanation of why the traditional timeline is WRONG . . .-- SATURDAY (the Jewish Sabbath) Jesus entered Jerusalem on the colt of a donkey in fulfillment of Zechariah's prophecy (Zech. 9:9). Christian tradition celebrates this event on "Palm Sunday."-- SUNDAY (the next day) Jesus entered the temple and reprimanded the money changers for making His Father's house a den of thieves (Mt. 21:12). He went to the city of Bethany and spent the night (Mt. 21:17).-- MONDAY Jesus returned to Jerusalem and taught in the temple courts (Mt. 21:23). On this day He also gave His disciples -- and to us through the Scriptures -- signs of His second coming and the gathering of His elect (Matthew 24). Mark tells us that two days later would be the Passover AND the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and the chief priests were looking for a way to arrest Jesus and kill Him (Mk. 14:1-2). It was also on this day that Judas Iscariot approached the chief priests and offered to betray Jesus.

TUESDAY NIGHT after the Seder, Jesus and His disciples (minus Judas, who had gone back to the chief priests to arrange the betrayal) went to "a place called Gethsemene" (Mk. 14:32). And Jesus prayed to His Father: "Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will" (Mk. 14:36). That night, Jesus was arrested for blasphemy, because He claimed to be the Son of God.-- WEDNESDAY MORNING Jesus was brutally mistreated, sentenced to death, and carried His cross to the site where He would be crucified. He was hung on the cross around 9 am.-- WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON JESUS DIED AT 3 P.M. (Mk. 15:33) At that moment the 15 foot high curtain in the temple was ripped in two vertically (Mk. 15:38), symbolizing the fact that Jesus' death paid for our entrance into the very presence of God. His body was removed from the cross and placed in a tomb before sundown.JESUS REMAINED IN THE TOMB FOR THREE DAYS in fulfillment of His own prophecy: "We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man [Jesus] will be betrayed to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn Him to death and will turn Him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. ON THE THIRD DAY HE WILL BE RAISED TO LIFE!" (Mt. 20:18-19). Jesus' death occurred at the same time that lamb's were being slaughtered in preparation for the Passover meal on Thursday!-- THURSDAY was Passover and guards were posted in front of the tomb where Jesus' body lay (Mt. 27:62-65).-- FRIDAY was an ADDITIONAL SABBATH on the day after Passover according to Jewish tradition.-- SATURDAY was the regular Jewish Sabbath, so restrictions on Friday and Saturday prevented people from traveling the distance to the tomb.-- SUNDAY was the first day that the women were allowed to go to the tomb. And that's when they saw that the boulder had been rolled away and the tomb was empty -- except for the linen shroud and the cloth that had wrapped Jesus' head (John 20:6-7).

SUNDAY IS RESURRECTION DAY. Christian tradition apparently got that right! Praise God!!!