Ken Brown
Well-Known Member
I know this has been discussed before, but seeing we are at that time of year, I thought I would bring up some very conclusive evidence that Yeshua was in the tomb for three days and three nights.
At the heart of proving Yeshua died, and was placed in the tomb on Wednesday at sunset, and then resurrected 72 hours later on the Sabbath at sunset, is the women who bought and prepared burial perfumes.
These women followed Yeshua from Galilee and Luke 23:55-56 states they were out at the tomb as the Sabbath was about to begin, and they watched as the stone was rolled over the entrance to the tomb Matt 27:60-61.
Now, Luke states that they "returned" and prepared the burial perfumes and then "rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment." So those who think it was Friday have to imagine the women returning someplace (they were outside the city) and then prepare these burial perfumes. If you would do a search on how perfumes were made in those days, you will find out that a fire has to be made, oil boiled, spices added, and it was a very lengthy process. To imagine that they could return to where they either had come from or to where they were staying and then do all this BEFORE the Sabbath started is very unreasonable.
But then we have Mark's account. Mark states that AFTER the Sabbath the women purchase the ingredients for the burial perfumes (Mark 16:1) How is it that the burial perfumes can be prepared BEFORE the ingredients are purchased, that is IF they prepared them on Friday evening? So this appears to be a very substantial contradiction between Luke and Mark, doesn't it?
Not really, if it was a Wednesday death and burial. In the Torah, the day which follows the Passover (Nissan 14) is always a Sabbath (Nissan 15), a special Sabbath or High Day as John speaks of it in John 19:31. From Wednesday at sunset to Thursday at sunset was this Nissan 15 special Sabbath (1st Day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread-Lev 23-5-7). The Passover-Nissan 14 was the preparation day for this High Sabbath of Nissan 15, and AFTER this Sabbath, as Mark accounts indicates, the women go out and purchase the ingredients (obviously this would have been on Friday as shops would be closed after the High Sabbath on Thursday evening). So they spent the day on Friday buying and preparing the burial perfumes, and didn't have enough time to go back out to the tomb BEFORE the weekly Sabbath began on Friday @ sunset. They then wait until Sunday morning (while it is still dark) to go out to the tomb and find it empty.
A Wednesday crucifixion and burial at sunset, through a Saturday resurrection at sunset, would give us three days and three nights and Yeshua's SIGN that He gave would be true.
How does this scenario sound to everyone? KB
At the heart of proving Yeshua died, and was placed in the tomb on Wednesday at sunset, and then resurrected 72 hours later on the Sabbath at sunset, is the women who bought and prepared burial perfumes.
These women followed Yeshua from Galilee and Luke 23:55-56 states they were out at the tomb as the Sabbath was about to begin, and they watched as the stone was rolled over the entrance to the tomb Matt 27:60-61.
Now, Luke states that they "returned" and prepared the burial perfumes and then "rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment." So those who think it was Friday have to imagine the women returning someplace (they were outside the city) and then prepare these burial perfumes. If you would do a search on how perfumes were made in those days, you will find out that a fire has to be made, oil boiled, spices added, and it was a very lengthy process. To imagine that they could return to where they either had come from or to where they were staying and then do all this BEFORE the Sabbath started is very unreasonable.
But then we have Mark's account. Mark states that AFTER the Sabbath the women purchase the ingredients for the burial perfumes (Mark 16:1) How is it that the burial perfumes can be prepared BEFORE the ingredients are purchased, that is IF they prepared them on Friday evening? So this appears to be a very substantial contradiction between Luke and Mark, doesn't it?
Not really, if it was a Wednesday death and burial. In the Torah, the day which follows the Passover (Nissan 14) is always a Sabbath (Nissan 15), a special Sabbath or High Day as John speaks of it in John 19:31. From Wednesday at sunset to Thursday at sunset was this Nissan 15 special Sabbath (1st Day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread-Lev 23-5-7). The Passover-Nissan 14 was the preparation day for this High Sabbath of Nissan 15, and AFTER this Sabbath, as Mark accounts indicates, the women go out and purchase the ingredients (obviously this would have been on Friday as shops would be closed after the High Sabbath on Thursday evening). So they spent the day on Friday buying and preparing the burial perfumes, and didn't have enough time to go back out to the tomb BEFORE the weekly Sabbath began on Friday @ sunset. They then wait until Sunday morning (while it is still dark) to go out to the tomb and find it empty.
A Wednesday crucifixion and burial at sunset, through a Saturday resurrection at sunset, would give us three days and three nights and Yeshua's SIGN that He gave would be true.
How does this scenario sound to everyone? KB