What is Holy Saturday? | GotQuestions.org
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What is Holy Saturday, in reference to Holy Week? If you would like to understand Holy Saturday or have Holy Saturday explained from a Biblical perspective, you’ve come to the right place. In this video Pastor Nelson answers the question, “What is Holy Saturday?”.
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- Today's question is, what is Holy Saturday? In this video I'll answer that question from a biblical perspective.
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- Then afterwards, as always, I'll share some helpful resources, so stick around until the end. Holy Saturday is the name given to the day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
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- Some Christians recognize Holy Saturday, the seventh day of the holy week, as the day on which
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- Jesus rested from His work of providing salvation. As Jesus died, He called out, But it is finished, there was no further price to pay, sin had been atoned for.
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- After His crucifixion, Jesus was laid in a nearby tomb, and His body remained there the entirety of Holy Saturday.
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- Churches that celebrate Holy Saturday traditionally do so by observing a day of somber reflection as they contemplate the world of darkness that would exist without the hope of Christ's resurrection.
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- Indeed, without the resurrection of Christ, we would be in dire straits. If Christ had never been raised, your faith is futile.
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- You are still in your sins. 1 Corinthians 15, verse 17. The disciples had scattered when
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- Jesus was arrested, Mark 14, verse 50, and they spent the first Holy Saturday hiding for fear of also being arrested,
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- John 20, verse 19. The day between Christ's crucifixion and His resurrection would have been a time of grief and shock as the stunned disciples tried to understand the murder of Jesus, the betrayal of Judas, and the dashing of their hopes.
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- The only biblical reference to what happened on Holy Saturday is found in Matthew 27, verses 62 -66.
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- After sundown on Friday, the day of preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees visited Pontius Pilate.
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- This visit was on the Sabbath, since the Jews reckoned a day as starting at sundown. They asked
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- Pilate for a guard for Jesus' tomb. They remembered Jesus saying that He would rise again in three days,
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- John 2, verses 19 -21, and wanted to do everything they could to prevent that.
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- As we know, the Roman guards were inadequate to prevent the resurrection, and the women who returned to the tomb
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