Did Jesus spend three days in the tomb?

Jesus was NOT crucified on a Friday. There were TWO sabbaths during that week. One was a high sabbath and the other was the regualr the Fri-Sat sabbath.

John 19:31  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,)

Jesus himself said he would be in the grave for THREE days AND THREE nights.

Matthew 12:40  For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

If there were any doubt that means 72 hours, then Jesus also said this.

John 11:9  Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day?

And consequently 12 hours in a night. Three days and three nights is 72 hours. Jesus was NOT crucified on a Friday.

BUT HE STILL AROSE!! Praise the Lord!!!

no 3 days is 72 hours if he died anytime on a Friday and rose on the next Sunday (even if at the same time he died Friday) it would only be 48 hours which is 2 days. I guess when they say he was dead 3 days they are counting dates not actual hours that would make up a 24 hour period to determine a true day.

Some scholars think that Jesus was Crucified on Thursday and not Friday as stated in the Gospels.

The confusion was(as another poster explained).. There were TWO sabbaths during that week. One was a high sabbath and the other was the regualr the Fri-Sat sabbath.

1. It was prophesied that he would remain in the heart of the earth three days and three nights even as Johna was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish. It cannot be much more specific than that.

2. This required time period can be worked out quite easily with a knowledge of the bible and Jewish customs.

Honey, Jesus died on a Thursday, at about nine in the morning following St. Matthews Testament. Just read it again.

A good foundation (1Tim.6:19) has solid ground evidence. The foundation should include 2Tim.3:16; Isaiah 28:9-10; 2Peter 1:19-21; 1Thess.5:20-21 & Ephes.5:9-10,13. To understand deeply--you must use these websites:

http://www.bbmhp.org/visaids/nt/crucweek.html

http://lcg.org/search/search.php?query=sunday&%24r...

If you read Daniel 9:27; it says "he died in the middle of the week"; that would be Wednesday. This is followed by "3 days & 3 nights" = Matthew 12:40 which equals 1-24hr.day x 3days equals 72hrs. in grave. Next the Bible tells us it would be "after 3days" and not before = Matt.27:63-64 and Mark 8:31. It tells us in three days (John 2:19-21) and not after. The Bible also reminds us a day is 12hrs. not including the night(John 11:9-10). Remember also Gen.1:5 and Lev.23:32 tells us "evening to evening" is considered to be a day.

HEBREW CALENDAR-month of Abib or Nisan (APRIL 31AD)

**JESUS DIED WEDNESDAY APRIL 14, 31AD at 3pm.

Wednesday 14

Lord's Supper--Tues.Even

Put in grave Wed.Even

LEV.23:5--[14TH DAY=PASSOVER]

DAN.9:27--["DIED IN MIDST OF WEEK"]

JOHN 13:1; 18:39--[FEAST OF PASSOVER]

JOHN 19:14,31--[PREPARATION OF PASSOVER; NEXT DAY WAS A SABBATH HIGH DAY]

LUKE 22:13--[PASSOVER]

MATT.27:57--[EVENING CAME AND JOSEPH BEGGED THE BODY OF JESUS]

MARK 14:12; 15:42--[PREPARE TO EAT PASSOVER; THE DAY BEFORE THE SABBATH]]

LUKE 23:54--[SABBATH DREW ON]

Dictionary: Drew=to pull or drag. On=over & in contact with.

Thursday 15

Wed.Even= 1night

Thurs.Even=1day

Annual Sabbath

Feast of Unleavened Bread

NO WORK!

EXODUS 13:3,4,6,7--[NO LEAVENED BREAD; MONTH OF ABIB; ONLY EAT UNLEAVENED BREAD FOR 7 DAYS]

LEVITICUS 23:6-7--[15TH DAY; HOLY CONVOCATION]

MATT.27:63-64--[AFTER 3 DAYS]

**CLUE = MATT.26:5 --[NOT ON THE FEAST DAY]

ISAIAH 66:23

Friday 16

THURS. EVEN= 1 NIGHT

FRIDAY EVEN = 1DAY

PREPARATION DAY

MARK 16:1--[probably Thurs.Even or Friday morning--BOUGHT SPICES AFTER SABBATH]

LUKE 23:56--[PREPARED SPICES BEFORE WEEKLY SABBATH]

**NOTES--YOU HAVE TO BUY BEFORE YOU CAN PREPARE! ALSO IT TAKES ALL DAY TO PREPARE SPICES!

Saturday 17

FRIDAY EVEN=1 NIGHT

SAT.EVEN= JESUS ROSE! = 1 DAY

WEEKLY SABBATH

"SEVENTH DAY"= 7TH DAY

NO WORK!

GEN.2:2

EXOD.20:8-11

LEV.23:3

HEB.3:18-19; 4:1-11

MARK 2:27-28

REV.14:7,12

**NOTES= SABBATH IN ENCYCLOPAEDIA AMERICANA, VOL.24, PP.68-69 AND/OR DICTIONARY.

Sunday 18

SAT.EVEN

SUN.EVEN

"FIRST DAY"= 1ST DAY

GENESIS 1:5

MATT.28:1,6,13

MARK 16:6,9

LUKE 24:1,3,6

JOHN 20:1,19

**NOTE: COULDN'T OF BOUGHT BECAUSE MARY & MARY MAGDALENE WENT TO THE GRAVE AFTER THE SABBATH.

THE NEW AMERICAN ROGET'S COLLEGE THESAURUS--

DAWN=DARK, EVENING, TWILIGHT, ETC.

Now I know this is true because the MAJORITY(Matt.7:13) is always wrong. Also there's many clues that it wasn't a Friday crucifixion and a Sunday resurrection; look at 2Tim.2:18. But you will point out Mark 16:9 which says "Now when Jesus was risen[the perfect tense is correct here--he was already risen] early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene." Now the original Greek didn't have no punctuation. If the King James translators put a comma after the word "risen" and not after "week", this would make complete sense. The Centenary Translation renders it this way: "Now after his resurrection, early on the first day of the week he appeared first to Mary Magdalene

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He never said 72 hours in the tomb. He said in (within) 3 days He would be raised again. He was raised on the third day, within 72 hours.

This is one of the most important questions of all of history. If Jesus arose from the dead, then what he said about himself is true. If he did not arise from the dead, then what he said about himself is not true. Jesus claimed to be the only way to God (John 14:6). He claimed to be able to forgive sins (Luke 5:20). He also claimed to be divine (John 8:24; 8:58 with Exodus 3:14). Therefore, his extraordinary claims are tied to his resurrection.

Of course, it is one thing to "say" that Jesus arose from the dead, it is another thing to prove it. But the problem is we cannot prove that he rose from the dead. The reason is because the documents that describe him or 2000 years old. At best, all we can do is look at those documents to determine if they are reliable and accurate. If they are, then we simply need to look at what they say to seeing if they support his resurrection or not. It is then up to the individual to accept or reject the claims those presented.

This becomes an important issue because a person's presuppositions will govern how he interprets the data. If a person presupposes that God does not exist, or that miracles cannot happen, then it would be virtually impossible to convince such a person that the resurrection occurred. On the other hand if a person presupposes that there is a God and that miracles can happen, then it would be easier to convince a person that the resurrection of Jesus happened. So, what are your presuppositions? Do your presuppositions allow you to objectively look at the evidence in order to make an "unbiased" conclusion about it?

In my paper Can we trust the New Testament as a historical document? I cover the information necessary to validate the New Testament documents as being accurate and reliably transmitted to us today. If you are interested in reading a more detailed examination of this, please click on the link above. Nevertheless, I will review the information in brief here.

The New Testament is reliable

First of all, the New Testament documents have a greater reliability to them in any other set of ancient documents in existence. The New Testament documents are 99.5% textually pure. This means that there is less than 1/2 of 1% of all the 26,000 copies we have of the various documents included in the New Testament. Added to this the incredible redundancy of copies, and their almost 100 percent agreement, and we can easily conclude that the transmission of the documents to us has been extremely reliable. If anyone or to dismiss the New Testament documents by saying that they are corrupted, that he must also throw out all other ancient documents including those of the writings of Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, and many others, etc., because none of them come close to approaching the number of manuscripts in existence nor the reliability, nor the accuracy of the copies then exists in the New Testament documents.

Second, since the documents are reliable then what we must do is look at them to determine whether or not the content supports the resurrection of Jesus. At this point, it becomes very easy to demonstrate this since the Bible definitely teaches that Jesus rose from the dead. There are many scriptures that teach Jesus' resurrection. Following are three of them.

Luke 24:56, "and as the women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, "Why do you seek the living One among the dead? 6 "He is not here, but He has risen..."

John 2:19-21, "Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." 20The Jews therefore said, "It took forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?" 21But He was speaking of the temple of His body. 22When therefore He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He said this; and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had spoken."

1 Cor. 15:3-4, "For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures."

Did Jesus rise from the dead? According to the Bible, yes He did.

He rose on the morning of the third day...

It was about 36 hours.