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PART 3-----ITEM G-----The Day of the Week He was Put into Tomb----From Scriptural Account:
WHEN JESUS WAS BURIED -- PUT INTO THE TOMB.
He was put into the tomb after 3 PM, when He died, but before evening (about 6 PM) the same day, the preparation day. One could not be crucified or buried on the Sabbath or Annual Holy Day.
Matt 27:57
57 When the even [3798-opsios] was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple:
Luke 23:52-54
52 This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.
53 And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.
54 And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.
Now notice John 19...
John 19:42
42 There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
Conclusion: Christ was put in the tomb on a preparation day. We know it could not have been the preparation day of Friday...NOT ENOUGH HOURS..........NOT ENOUGH NIGHTS AND DAYS. So it must have been a preparation day prior to and other than Friday. It could not have been Thursday...NOT ENOUGH HOURS...NOT ENOUGH NIGHTS AND DAYS. It could only have been Wednesday, a preparation day, therefore making Thursday, the Holy Day. He was put into the tomb at sometime between 3 PM and even [3798-opsios] or 6 PM on Wednesday.
DO THE MATH
For the moment, forget about the fact that there was an Annual Holy Day or two preparation days that week. The only other preparation day was Friday. This is the day most secular churches say is the day Christ died.
If Christ died on Friday at 3 PM and was put in the ground before even [6 PM], say at 5 PM, we can count from there:
Friday....5 PM to midnight..........= 7 hours
Sabbath....24 hours...................= 24 hours
Sunday.....early in the morning he is already risen........call it 6 AM....= 6 hours
TOTAL: 37 hours.
OOPS, WE ARE 35 HOURS SHORT or 1 whole day plus 11 hours or about 1.5 days.
37 Hours: No matter where we start the 37 hours, we cannot get 3 days and 3 nights covered with those 37 hours.
Now verses proving that it was early and dark on that Sunday:
Mark 16:2
2 And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
Luke 24:1
1 Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.
John 20:1
1 The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.