When did Jesus Die? Is a day a day? | Rapp Report 2-minute Daily 0022 | Andrew Rappaport | SFE | Striving for Eternity

The Question of Whether a Day Must Mean a Full 24 Hours

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Does a day always mean a day? That's the question that we're gonna look at here. And we have to ask, does the word day always refer to a literal 24-hour day? We've been looking this week at the death of Jesus Christ.

Did he die on Wednesday? Thursday or Friday? Some people get questioned this because they say that a day must be a literal 24-hour day. And if that's the case, then what we're addressing is the fact that a day doesn't fit with Christ being crucified on Friday and being risen on Sunday.

That's not three 24-hour days. That's less than that. But a day doesn't always have to mean a full 24-hour day. A day can mean any part of the day. So the way we reckon a day in Judaism is by looking at the time, so basically the days, and we're gonna see this tomorrow, that a day doesn't start at midnight.

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But Jesus Christ would have been crucified and in the ground on Friday, part of Friday, all day Saturday, and part of Sunday. Now you may say, but wait a minute, that's not really the case because he wasn't in for those full days.

We're gonna look at how a day is actually rectified in Judaism, because it's different than the way we count a day in our day and age.

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