JESUS [CHRIST] of Nazareth WAS NOT CRUCIFIED ON A FRIDAY!
But wait you say, HIS family, friends, and enemies wanted to bury HIM
before the Sabbath began; and we all know that the Sabbath is a
Saturday, and according to Jewish reckoning, the Sabbath begins at
Sundown Friday, and continues until Sundown Saturday. So how can I
maintain that JESUS of Nazareth was not Crucified on a Friday??? Well
that’s a very good question, and let’s see how THE BIBLE can prove what
I’m claiming here.
Learn, Remember, Understand this key point of Jewish Reckoning:
ALL SATURDAYS ARE SABBATHS,
BUT NOT ALL SABBATHS ARE [on] SATURDAYS!
I really enjoyed the movie “Paycheck”, because the hero in the movie,
after having his memory wiped clean of the previous two years of his
life, had to work backwards in order to see and understand what he had
done, the effect that it could have, and how he should go about
destroying the machine capable of seeing into the future, that he had
made during those erased two years. In fact, his rule marked all his
accomplishments of “
sometimes its best to work backwards”, by starting
with the end result, and working backwards just to see how it got to be
that way.
So let’s start by working backward, with the given understanding that
Sundown yesterday to Sundown today is one entire 24 hours, day. And
remember that this is Jewish reckoning of a complete day that they
take, in part, from Genesis, Chapter 1, “
. . .And the evening and the
morning were the...day (
Ge 1:5,8,13,19,23, 31).”
Scripture tells us that JESUS WAS OUT OF THE GRAVE before Sunup “
The
first [day]
of the week [Sunday]
came Mary Magdalene early, when it was
yet dark, unto the sepulcher, and saw the stone taken away from the
sepulcher (
Joh 20:1)”, which was Sunday, “
The first [day]
of the
week”; In order to simplify this assertion, I’m going to use 6:00 p.m.
to represent Sundown, and 6am to represent Sunup, solely as a point of
reference, in order to explain just how I have arrived at this
Conclusion...Scripture Itself will take care of the Rest.
From 6pm one day, to 6pm the next day, makes for one 24-hour day. The
Jewish [WEEKLY] Sabbath [Saturday] begins at 6pm (
Sundown) on our
Friday evening; it ends on 6pm (
Sundown) on our Saturday evening.
Now if we use the time of 6:00 A.M. as strictly a point of reference,
then 72 hours from Sunday morning would have to be 6:00 A.M. Thursday
morning, which would look thus:
6am Thursday Morning-6am Friday morning=Day 1/Totaling 24 hours
6am Friday Morning-6am Saturday morning=Day 2/Totaling 48 hours
6am Saturday Morning-6am Sunday morning=Day 3/Totaling 72 hours...
Or “
. . .three days and three nights...”
But wait, The Jewish day ended and started at Sundown (
Remember, we'll
use 6:00 P.M. for our point of reference); so now we have to make this
work, beginning at 6:00 P.M. But notice also, now we have to start with
6:00 P.M. Saturday (
the beginning of “
The first [day] of the week”):
The Resurrection had to have occurred sometimes after 6:00 P.m.
Saturday, and before Sun up Sunday morning. And in order to have the
required 72 hours [“
. . .three days and three nights...”]:
JESUS (
of Nazareth)
WOULD HAVE TO HAVE BEEN CRUCIFIED ON WEDNESDAY!!!
Now do you remember that...:
. . .ALL SATURDAYS ARE SABBATHS,
BUT NOT ALL SABBATHS ARE [on] SATURDAYS!
But, In order for the above Statement to be true, as it relates to The
CRUCIFIXION, in this instance, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and even
Sunday, would have to be ALL Sabbaths.
And again as Tony Evans would say, ...“
Stay with me, I’m going somewhere with this.”
Do you remember that JESUS Desired to eat THE PASSOVER WITH HIS
DISCIPLES [“And HE said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat
this Passover with you before I suffer. (
Lu 22:15)”]? And at, that
which we now call “The Last Supper”, HE and all of HIS Disciples were
all seated and/or reclining [“Now when the even was come, HE sat down
with the twelve. (
Mt 26:20)”] ? So, since this took place in “the
even”, according to Jewish reckoning, this would have been the start of
a new day. And according to the Conversation JESUS had at this meal,
with HIS Disciples, “bread. . .blessed. . .and broke[n]”, along with
“fruit of the vine”, was on the Menu. And after this Meal, JESUS went
out into the Garden of Gathsemane, where HE was arrested and led and
hauled around with all the mock trials (
including those of the
“Religious and Mosaic Law Observer, a.k.a.: The Pharisees). All of this
walking around, and mock trials, would surely have been in violation of
the “Sabbath day’s Journey” law found in The Torah. And we know that
the day prior had not been a Sabbath day, but “ . . .the preparation...
(Joh 19:14) ” for “. . .The PASSOVER... (Joh 19:14)”. Now don’t miss
that word “preparation”. So what were they Eating?
After they had finished with “supper” we're told, “they went out into
the mount of Olives (Mt 26:30; Mr 14:26), where, after agonizing over
events to come, JESUS was arrested (Mt 26:57). From then on, things
start happening so fast, that we seem to have misplaced, through all
our ‘traditions’, TWO entire days, AT THE LEAST!
They were not eating the “The Passover Feast”. “The Passover Feast” was
eaten in the evening of Nisan 14 [“In the fourteenth day of the first
month at even is THE LORD'S PASSOVER. (Le 23:5)”]. And now would be a
good time to see what Scripture calls what they were eating: “. . .the
cup after supper, (Lu 22:20)”; “. . .And supper being ended, (Joh
13:2)”; “HE rises from supper, (Joh 13:4);”“. . .leaned on HIS breast
at supper, (Joh 21:20).”. The Scriptures even tells us about only three
consumables at this “Supper”: The “fruit of the vine”, the “bread”, and
whatever was being “dipped”. No mentioning of “a Lamb” is ever made in
any of the four GOSPEL accounts, regarding their meal.
Now let’s look at why the “traditional Friday crucifixion assumption”, just doesn't fit with Scripture:
1. If Nisan 14 had begun on Thursday evening at Sundown, then Friday
morning and Friday afternoon, would have also been Nisan 14. This would
have made that entire period of time A SABBATH DAY in which “ . . .no
manner of work shall be done in them... (Ex 12:16ff)”. This would have
meant:
a. No JESUS and HIS Disciples going out to “. . .the mount of Olives. (Mr 14:26)”.
b. No taking of JESUS into custody, no mock trials, and certainly no
scourging and no Crucifixion. Also there would not have been any buying
of “. . .fine linen. . .and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a
sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the
door of the sepulchre (Mr 15:46)” ; nor buying any “. . .sweet spices,
that they might come and anoint HIM. (Mr 16:1)”.
2. If Nisan 14 had begun on Thursday evening at Sundown, then Friday
morning and Friday afternoon, would have also been Nisan 14; and that
would mean that Friday evening at Sundown, would have begun Nisan 15,
which would begin THE REGULAR WEEKLY SABBATH, as well as, The FEAST of
UNLEAVENED BREAD, “And on the fifteenth day of the same month is THE
FEAST of UNLEAVENED BREAD unto THE LORD: seven days you all must eat
UNLEAVENED BREAD. In the first day you all shall have an HOLY
CONVOCATION: you all shall do no servile work therein. (Le 23:6-7)”.
3. If Nisan 15 had begun on Friday evening at Sundown, then Saturday
morning and Saturday afternoon, would have also been Nisan 15; and that
would mean that Saturday evening at Sundown would have begun Nisan 16,
which would begun “. . .the first day of the week...(Mt 28:1)”. But,
that would also mean that Nisan 16 was also The FEAST of FIRSTFRUITS,
“And THE LORD spoke unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of
Israel, and say unto them, When you all be come into the land which I
give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then you all shall
bring a sheaf of THE FIRSTFRUITS of your harvest unto the priest: And
he shall wave the sheaf before THE LORD, to be accepted for you: on the
morrow after THE SABBATH the priest shall wave it. (Lev 23:10-11)”.
It is written: “And now when the evening was come, because it was the
preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath, Joseph of Arimathaea,
an honorable counselor, who also waited for THE KINGDOM of GOD, came,
and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of JESUS. (Mr
15:42-43ff); And that day was the preparation, and the Sabbath drew on
[Near]. (Lu 23:54ff); And it was the preparation of the Passover, and
about the sixth hour [about Midnight or Midday, as they divided the day
into 2-12 hours' periods]: and he said unto the Jews, Behold your King!
(Joh 19:14ff); The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that
the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath day, (for
that Sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs
might be broken, and [that] they might be taken away. (Joh 19:31ff);
There laid they JESUS therefore because of the Jews' preparation [day];
for the sepulcher was nigh at hand. (Joh 19:42ff).”
Keep this most important consideration in mind as you ponder this along
with everything else in this book, JESUS CHRIST came to “FULFILL ALL of
THE LAW”, and not just the convenient parts. And remember this: Any
Violation of any jot and/or tittle of The Law of Moses immediately made
the violator a sinner; and that would include JESUS, even though HE had
been born of a virgin, and had not, by that reasoning, inherited a “sin
nature.” Adam hadn't been created with a “sin nature” either, but he
sinned because of his own ‘Freewill’.
So if we were to “reason together”, then the only possible conclusion
that is conducive to the All-Knowing GOD of ORDER, is that these are
the Days, Periods, and Events as they happened, by working backward,
from the “The Resurrection”, to “The Upper Room”:
(Nisan 17)
6pm Saturday-6am (Sunrise) Sunday
(12-hours of a Jewish Sunday/
The 1st Day of the Week)
=The Feast of First fruits
(Nisan 16th was the actual day of;
but observed on Nisan 17th here,
because of The Weekly Sabbath on Nisan 16.)
THE RESURRECTION!
•
(Nisan 16)
6pm Friday-6pm Saturday
(A 24-hours Jewish Saturday)
=The Regular Weekly Sabbath
(No Crucifixion could have taken place,
as The dead body of JESUS
would have been on The Cross on a Sabbath.)
=Day 3 of “in the Grave”
•
(Nisan 15-21)
6pm Thursday-6pm Friday
(A 24-hours Jewish Friday)
=1st Day of The Feast of Unleavened Bread Sabbath,
(No Crucifixion could have taken place,
as The dead body of JESUS
would have been on The Cross on a Sabbath.)
=Day 2 of “in the Grave”;
•
(Nisan 14)
6pm Wednesday-6pm Thursday
(A 24-hours Jewish Thursday)
= The Passover Feast Sabbath
(No Crucifixion could have taken place,
as The dead body of JESUS
would have been on The Cross on a Sabbath.)
=Day 1 of “in the Grave”;
•
(Nisan 13)
6pm Tuesday-6pm Wednesday
(A 24-hours Jewish Wednesday)
=THE Last DAY of Preparation
=The Last Supper,
The Arrest, Trial, and Beatings,
The Crucifixion, and The Burial.
Now then, here’s another look at the above time table, from the Jewish
perspective/reckoning, starting with the Scripture from John 12:1-7,
where JESUS attends “a supper” at the home of Martha and Lazarus:
6PM:Thursday-6PM:Friday
= NISAN 08
ANOINTED for BURIAL
[by Mary, the sister of Lazarus]
6 Days before THE PASSOVER
“Then JESUS six days before THE PASSOVER came to Bethany, where Lazarus
was which had been dead, whom HE raised from the dead. There they made
HIM a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat
at the table with HIM. Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard,
very costly, and anointed the feet of JESUS, and wiped HIS feet with
her hair: and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment. Then
says one of HIS disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should
betray HIM, Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and
given to the poor? This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but
because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
Then said JESUS, Let her alone: against the day of MY burying hath she
kept this. (Joh 12:1-7)”
•
6PM:Friday-6PM:Saturday
= NISAN 09
THE ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM
[THE REGULAR WEEKLY SABBATH]
“On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they
heard that JESUS was coming to Jerusalem, Took branches of palm trees,
and went forth to meet HIM, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is THE KING of
Israel that comes in the name of THE LORD. And JESUS, when HE had found
a young ***, sat thereon; as it is written, ‘Fear not, daughter of
Zion: behold, your KING comes, sitting on an ***'s colt.’ These things
understood not his disciples at the first: but when JESUS was
glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of HIM,
and that they had done these things unto HIM. The people therefore that
was with HIM when HE called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him
from the dead, bare record. For this cause the people also met HIM, for
that they heard that HE had done this miracle. The Pharisees therefore
said among themselves, Perceive all of you how all of you prevail
nothing? behold, the world is gone after HIM. And there were certain
Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: The same came
therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired
him, saying, Sir, we would see JESUS. Philip comes and tells Andrew:
and again Andrew and Philip tell JESUS. And JESUS answered them,
saying, The hour is come, that THE SON of man should be glorified.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the
ground and die, it abides alone: but if it die, it brings forth much
fruit. He that loves his life shall lose it; and he that hates his life
in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. If any man serve ME, let
him follow ME; and where I am, there shall also MY servant be: if any
man serve ME, him will MY FATHER honour. Now is MY soul troubled; and
what shall I say? FATHER, save ME from this hour: but for this cause
came I unto this hour. FATHER, GLORIFY YOUR NAME. Then came there a
voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify
it again. The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that
it thundered: others said, An angel spoke to HIM. JESUS answered and
said, This voice came not because of ME, but for your sakes. Now is the
judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto ME.
This HE said, signifying what death HE should die. The people answered
HIM, We have heard out of the law that CHRIST abides for ever: and how
say you, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man? Then
JESUS said unto them, Yet a little while is THE LIGHT with you. Walk
while all of you have THE LIGHT, lest darkness come upon you: for he
that walks in darkness knows not whither he goes. While all of you have
LIGHT, believe in THE LIGHT, that all of you may be the children of
LIGHT. (Joh 12:12-36a)”. Note: all of this could have and would have
taken place prior to 6PM Friday Evening (The beginning of The Regular
Weekly Sabbath).
•
6PM:Saturday-6PM:Sunday
= NISAN10
(PASSOVER WEEK BEGINS)
THE HIDDEN LAMB
“These things spoke JESUS, and departed, and did hide HIMSELF from them. (Joh 12:36b)”
•
6PM:Sunday-6PM:Monday
= NISAN 11
THE HIDDEN LAMB
“These things spoke JESUS, and departed, and did hide HIMSELF from them. (Joh 12:36b)”
•
6PM:Monday-6PM:Tuesday
= NISAN 12
THE HIDDEN LAMB
“These things spoke JESUS, and departed, and did hide HIMSELF from them. (Joh 12:36b)”
•
6PM:Tuesday-6PM:Wednesday=NISAN 13
THE LAST SUPPER, TRIAL, CRUCIFIXION & BURIAL
Then came the day of unleavened bread, when THE PASSOVER must be slain. (Lu 22:7)
•
6PM:Wednesday-6PM:Thursday
= NISAN 14
DAY 1 IN THE GRAVE
[THE FEAST of THE PASSOVER/SABBATH]
“These are the feasts of THE LORD, even HOLY CONVOCATIONS, which all of
you shall proclaim in their seasons. In the fourteenth day of the first
month at even is THE LORD'S PASSOVER. (Leviticus 23:4-5)”
“And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and all of you shall
keep it a feast to THE LORD throughout your generations; all of you
shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever. Seven days shall all of
you eat unleavened bread; even the first day all of you shall put away
leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eats leavened bread from the
first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from
Israel. And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in
the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of
work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that
only may be done of you. (Ex 12:14-16)”
•
6PM:Thursday-6PM:Friday
= NISAN 15
DAY 2 IN THE GRAVE
[THE FEAST of UNLEAVENED BREAD/SABBATH]
“And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of UNLEAVENED
BREAD unto THE LORD: seven days all of you must eat UNLEAVENED BREAD.
In the first day all of you shall have an HOLY CONVOCATION: all of you
shall do no servile work therein. But all of you shall offer an
offering made by fire unto THE LORD seven days: (Leviticus 23:6-8a)”
“And all of you shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in
this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt:
therefore shall all of you observe this day in your generations by an
ordinance for ever. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the
month at even, all of you shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and
twentieth day of the month at even. Seven days shall there be no leaven
found in your houses: for whosoever eats that which is leavened, even
that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he
be a stranger, or born in the land. all of you shall eat nothing
leavened; in all your habitations shall all of you eat unleavened
bread. (Ex 12:17-20)”
•
6PM:Friday-6PM:Saturday
= NISAN 16
DAY 3 IN THE GRAVE
[THE REGULAR WEEKLY SABBATH (also) THE FEAST of FIRSTFRUIT]
“Six days shall work be done: but THE SEVENTH DAY is THE SABBATH of
REST, an HOLY CONVOCATION; you all shall do no work therein: it is THE
SABBATH of THE LORD in all your dwellings. (Lev 23:3)”
“And THE LORD spoke unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of
Israel, and say unto them, When you all be come into the land which I
give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then you all shall
bring a sheaf of THE FIRSTFRUITS of your harvest unto the priest: And
he shall wave the sheaf before THE LORD, to be accepted for you: on the
morrow after THE SABBATH the priest shall wave it. (Lev 23:10-11)”
•
6PM:Saturday-6PM:Sunday
= NISAN 17
THE RESURRECTION!!!
[THE FEAST of FIRSTFRUITS Celebrated because of Weekly Sabbath]
“And THE LORD spoke unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of
Israel, and say unto them, When you all be come into the land which I
give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then you all shall
bring a sheaf of THE FIRSTFRUITS of your harvest unto the priest: And
he shall wave the sheaf before THE LORD, to be accepted for you: on the
morrow after THE SABBATH the priest shall wave it. (Lev 23:10-11)”
•
Can you now see, how this assertion fits with THE SCRIPTURES? THE
WRITTEN WORD of GOD (The Bible) is its own best interpreter and/or
explainer. Religion has so indoctrinated us that we just believe
without any reasoning and/or rationalizing that JESUS of Nazareth, had
to have been Crucified on “Good Friday.” I’m just thankful to my Father
in Heaven, that HE caused me to question, sometime after I first heard
the oxymoron ‘JESUS CHRIST was Crucified and Buried on “Good Friday”’.
Although it worked “...to the good...(Ro 8:28)”, it certainly couldn't
have been “Good” for HIM...especially if it had happened on “Friday”,
as only our Traditions and Hear-says have taught us.
Now then, is our FATHER in HEAVEN, Awesomer, than Awesomely Awesome???
Can you see how HE arranged these Events to happen back to back to
back, so that THE ONE WHOM they had previously foreshadowed would now
show forth HIMSELF as the ONE WHOM “Abraham”, had “rejoiced to see” HIS
“day (Joh 8:56)”? What other god do you know that could SOVERIGNLY
arrange People, places, and things so that:
1) The Passover instituted way back in Egypt, would find its
FULFILLMENT thousands of years later when “The LAMB of GOD WHO takes
away the sins of the World”, would HIMSELF become THE PASSOVER LAMB
just hours before The Passover Feast?
2) The Feast of Unleavened Bread, which symbolizes putting away sin,
would see its FULFILLMENT in THE SINLESS SON of GOD, WHO took upon
HIMSELF the sins of all mankind and then went and deposited them in the
very pits of Hell, itself (Eph 4:8-9)?
3) The Feast of Firstfruits, would see its fulfillment in THE
RESURRECTION from the Dead of JESUS CHRIST, of WHOM this Feast had been
the foreshadow of?
Throughout HIS Earthly Ministry, from his Ordination at HIS Baptismal
to HIS Body’s Burial, JESUS CHRIST constantly showed forth HIS
unequaled, Perfection, Superiority and Authority over Life and Death,
and all points between (blindness, sickness, deafness, storms of life,
diseases, Spiritual and Physical Hunger, etc.).
Mankind is a messed up sinner under the penalty of Death, but...
...REMEMBER...
ONLY GOD CAN SATISFY GOD!!!