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Was Jesus Crucified on Friday?
Tradition says yes, but does the Bible agree? Enjoy some fun verses that make Thursday a good bet. Plus a look at when many of the O.T. Saints came back to life on the earth! See below!

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Was Jesus Crucified
on Friday?

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Most of the Christian world observes Jesus' death on the Friday before Resurrection Sunday.  
 
But according to the Bible, that dog won't hunt!


Most churches today teach that Friday is the day of Jesus' death on the cross. This is an alternate view. (I actually think I'm Biblically correct but my wife thought I needed to soften my stance. Naturally, I worry if I soften my stance, don't draw lines in the sand, I might turn into a democrat).

First it must be noted that the Bible gives us a detailed description of every day of Jesus' last week prior to his crucifixion- VERY detailed. But there are only five days detailed in the Bible, instead of six.

The missing day is referred to by Bible scholars as the "The missing day." LOL! Not much imagination there. It takes a lot of (guts, pride, ego, take your pick) to say there might be something left out of the Bible narrative.   

These Biblical "scholars" ASSUME that Jesus was crucified on Friday, therefore there should be six days of details (Sunday through Friday). But only five are referenced in Scripture (Sunday through Thursday).

   * Sunday- Palm Sunday Road to Temple
   * Monday- Overturned moneychangers' tables 
   * Tuesday- Priests examine Jesus 
   * Wednesday- ("Missing Day"?) 
   * Thursday- Passover preparation and meal 
   * Friday- Crucifixion, grave  
   * Saturday- Grave 
   * Sunday- Grave, Resurrection 

And, if you use the above timeline, it directly contradicts this verse:
      
       "for just as JONAH WAS THREE DAYS  
        AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE BELLY  
        OF THE SEA MONSTER, so will the Son  
        of Man be three days and three nights in  
        the heart of the earth." Matt 12:40 

The "heart of the earth" is a reference to the "bottomless pit" in the center of the earth (Rev. 9:1,2). When you are in the heart of the earth, no matter which way you look, you're looking up!

The Old Testament Saints could not go to heaven when they died because Jesus had yet to pay for their sins. So they went to "Paradise" to wait for their sins to be paid in full. Today, post-cross, Church Age Believers go straight to heaven when they die (2 Cor 5:8).

Luke 16:19-31 is not a parable but rather an actual description of the bottomless pit. At death, those O.T Saints who trusted by faith the future Messiah were enjoying paradise just a few feet from those who were wailing in the scorching flames of Hades. They were so close they could actually talk to each other across a "chasm" (v. 24-26).

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It's interesting that when Jesus died and defeated death, the first thing He did was go to the Bottomless Pit to claim and release His O.T. Saints so they could go to heaven.

"(Now this expression, 'He ascended,' what does it mean except that He also had descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is
Himself also He who ascended far above all the heavens"
  Eph. 4:9-10  

80,000 people at a football game can make a lot of noise, but that's nothing compared to cheer that must have roared when Jesus made His appearance in Paradise to redeem the O.T. Saints. I'm hoping I get to see a replay of that one day!

Apparently, as the redeemed Saints crossed through the earth's crust on their way up, some lingered around and were seen by those alive on the earth.

And behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two
from top to bottom, and the earth shook; and the
rocks were split, and the tombs were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep
were raised; and coming out of the tombs after
His resurrection they entered the holy city and  
appeared to many.  Matt 27:51-53
 
I'm sure at least one conversation back then went something like this:

Eli: "Wow Aaron, I thought you were dead! I went to your funeral two years ago. You look great!"

Aaron: "Nope, not dead. I just changed places from earth to Paradise. I had to wait until the Messiah came to the earth and shed His blood for me so I could go to heaven. I'm on my way to heaven, just stopped for a moment to reminisce."

Eli
: "Then if you're on your way to heaven, did the Messiah come, did I miss Him?"

Aaron: "Did you not hear that Jesus of Nazareth was crucified three days ago?"

Eli: "You mean Jesus was the Deliverer!!!!????" 

Aaron: "Yep, and you can only get to heaven by faith in that fact."

Eli: "Wow! Hey, what's with the all those white clothes you're wearing?" 

Aaron: "You get them on arrival after you die. If you were trusting the Messiah to pay for your sins and you die, you get the clothes."

Eli: "That's it? That's all you have to do- TRUST? Your clothes aren't received based on doing good works? 

Aaron: "Come on Eli, are you so foolish that you think that there is anything you do can add to the finished work of the Messiah? I gotta go now."

(Note: Eli and his family received the Holy Spirit 47 days later at the Feast of Pentecost)

(Hope you enjoyed that little tangent ... sorry, I got side-tracked... now back to the study on what day Jesus was crucified)

So, if you ASSUME the Bible records all the events without a "missing day," using a literal translation and application of the Biblical text, you have a much more scripturally defendable timeline: 


   * Sunday- Palm Sunday Road to Temple
   * Monday- Overturned moneychangers' tables 
   * Tuesday- Priests examine Jesus    
   * Wednesday- Passover preparation and meal 
   * Thursday- Crucifixion, Grave (one night) 
   * Friday- Grave (two nights) 
   * Saturday- Grave (three nights) 
   * Sunday- Grave, Resurrection

By not arbitrarily inserting the "missing day" you also solve the problem of Jesus being "three days and nights in the heart of the earth."

Anyway I slice it, I can only get two nights between Friday and Sunday, even if I use a Jewish day beginning at sundown (sundown to sundown equals one day).

Resurrection days

It seems so much simpler just to follow the text as written and you have literally three days and three nights, as the scripture says.

Now consider the verse regarding Jesus arriving at Lazarus' house.    

 

 "Jesus, therefore, six days before the Passover,  

came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom  

Jesus had raised from the dead."  John 12:1   

 

We know that the latest Jesus could have arrived at Lazarus' house would have been Friday before His Palm Sunday entry, because Saturday was Shabbat and He couldn't travel. If you count six days from Friday, you come to Thursday, and the verse indicates that Passover began then.  

 

John's Gospel may also support a Thursday crucifixion:

 

"The Jews therefore, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies should not remain
on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath
was a high day)" John 19:31


Then on the fourteenth day of the first month shall
be the LORD'S Passover. Num 28:16

3 Jesus last week

Passover lambs had to be slaughtered on the 14th of Nisan, which was Thursday that year. Jesus is called the Lamb of God (John 1:29). Jesus would not have been an acceptable sacrifice if He were sacrificed on any other day. 

So Passover would have begun on Wednesday night at sundown and His disciples would have had their Passover meal on Wednesday night, after dark. Thursday, He was crucified.

It seems so much simpler to me to just follow the text as written and you end up with literally three days and three nights--as the scripture states!

But, of course, what's MOST important is not the day He died, but the fact that He defeated death and rose from the dead. On Sunday, three days and three nights after His crucifixion, He rose from the dead leaving an empty tomb. It gives me chills just thinking about the many times I've looked into that empty tomb in Jerusalem!

"Why do you seek the living One among the dead?  
"He is not here, but He has risen. Luke 24:5-6

 
Have a great Resurrection Sunday!!!!

  




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In the not-too-distant past, a subtle but hugely impacting decision was made by our leadership in the public school system to begin training children to think differently/process truth differently than before. John, with more research than you can imagine, traces the implementation of this new system and where it's led us. Dumbfounding!
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The Bible says all our sins were nailed to the cross 2000 years ago. But COUNTLESS Christians think it is possible to lose your salvation or walk away from the faith. J.B. will show in no uncertain terms that your salvation has zero to do with your works, past, present or future. Encouraging! 


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God is perfect in His Word. Every syllable in the Bible is God-breathed and therefore trustworthy . . . including every color and every number. An entirely new world of Biblical insight opens up when you understand the meaning of numbers and color in scripture. You'll never read your Bible the same way again!

 
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Muslims want the world, including those of us in the United States, to convert to Islam. Although we tend to laugh that off, you won't believe how far they've come in the last few years. In the next 20 years, some European countries will have a majority of Muslims voting. They are winning a war that most don't know we're even engaged in! Learn the facts. Your future is at stake with the decisions you soon must make.

 

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Tom Cloud  * Christian Financial Consultant, GA

 

Our national income is about 2 trillion dollars a year, but we are spending 3.5 trillion dollars a year. We borrow 4 billion dollars a day to pay for this shortfall . . . this is not going to end well for every living American--Christian and non-Christian alike. Everyone needs to know and prepare for the probable end of this unrelenting problem.

 

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