Did Jesus Die on Friday plus Open Q&A

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Opening the Show and Tonight’s Topic

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I do hear, and rumor has it, that Mr. Chris Honholz is going to be watching tonight, host of Voice of Reason Radio. He had the day off, so we're going to see what kind of comments he has. But I think everybody that are, if he starts commenting, folks, I want you to start encouraging him to actually join.

Let's see if we can get Chris Honholz to join us. All right, so tonight we're going to start off with the topic of what day did Jesus die? And that's going to be before we get to open Q &A, but we're going to do open Q &A tonight.

And so if you guys have any questions, good, Chris Honholz is here. He says he's here. I don't see him backstage here, though, so folks, get him to come on. All right, so with that, let's bring in Dr. Silvestro, who is in the dark.

Hey, good night. I don't know what's with your camera, what's with your settings there, but you know, I have no idea. I really should start recording early so people can watch what happens when you try to, like, for folks who don't understand, Anthony has the easiest equipment.

We got him the easiest equipment to work with, and yet every week he can't figure out how to get it working. Can you hear me? I can't hear you. It's like we have to spend 30 minutes getting him set up again and again and again.

And like, just don't touch the equipment. I mean, I always know how.

To fix it. The settings always get knocked off in the computer. I have no idea how this happens.

There's nothing that has to change. It's really sad. Yeah, I know. We do have our Cluck Commander here. There he is. I'm so thankful we finally got the chickens back on. Yes, so we have John sort of with us.

And so, Anthony, we do have a couple events coming up. We just planned, you and I just booked our flights and all for Beulah Baptist Church, May 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th, actually. That's Friday all the way to Monday.

You and I and Justin Peters will all be doing a Snatch Them From the Flames seminar. It's one of the seminars we have that's a discernment seminar. So, if you're anywhere in the Winter Garden area, that's in the Orlando area.

So, Florida, please go to Beulah Baptist Church so you can register and be there for that event. We'll also be, the three of us, Justin Peters, Anthony, and I will also be at Cruciform Conference in June.

I think it's the first week in June. Go to Cruciform Conference. Anthony, you're speaking. You and I, I guess, are speaking at the pre-conference as well. So, on apologetics. So, I guess.

I'm excited. I've got two hours to teach late-level precepts. So, one of my favorite things to do. I think you only have one hour.

And I have two. Well, I got to figure out what I'm going to do because I'm going to be teaching precepts. So, I guess if I go first, I get to steal all your thunder. Yeah, I'll just do it better.

Yeah, but that is exciting. We've got a couple of those conferences coming up, not to mention Israel in six months.

That's right. Prices did go up as of today for the Israel trip. But if you want to join us in Israel, let me get that banner up wherever that is. You just have to go to IsraelTour2021 .com, IsraelTour2021 .com to join us in Israel this October.

I know the price went up by $100, but it's still that trip. Although it's expensive, it includes all your hotels, two meals a day. It includes the bus driver and the guides and everything. And I heard that the rumor is that prices are going to be going up in Israel even more.

So, that might be a reason to come now. So, Chris Honholz is saying, Andrew, you need to...

Oh, Andrew, I think you just cut yourself out. So, on that, Chris, I just sent you...

Oh, there you go. I don't know what just happened. I just dropped out for some reason.

You just dropped out. Yeah, but I took over. It's no big deal.

So, Chris Honholz wants the link. The link is really simple, Chris. It's the same link every time. All you have to do is go to ApologeticsLive .com. And there's a little duck icon. You click on that. It was so easy.

Oh, wait, no. I was going to say it was so easy Anthony could do it, but... I'm in. All right. So, why don't we... I'm going to bring in.

AM Brewster. Well, before we get to this though, Andrew, there's one other thing we wanted to bring up tonight before this. Oh, that's right. Okay. I'm going to put him back. Yeah. That's right. So, we want to bring this up because we hear...

There were two things, two things. Okay. Well, one of them is we heard through the grapevine that...

Well, let me say something before you get to that though. That's the thing I'm saying. Okay. Then say it first. I meant to do this. I meant to welcome all of the atheists watching on their national holiday.

Welcome to National Atheist Day, April Fool's Day. Because we know that Psalm 14 says, the fool says in his heart, there is no God. So, welcome, April 1st, National Atheist Day, April Fool's Day. Okay.

Now to a more serious matter.

Well, that is pretty serious too, but... So, we've heard rumors that while we did a number of shows last year on the cultish practices of the church in Davenport, Iowa, pastored by, and I say that loosely, by Mike Reed and the church attended by Tony Miano, that we have done a number of shows that's showing what victims have said regarding the spiritual abuse and abusive practices by Mike Reed and his other two elders.

And Mike has refused time and time again to come onto the show. He's refused time and time again to publicly put out statements as to whether he still believes the stuff that has happened in the past, whether he still preaches on the same things he was preaching four, five, six years ago about some of the really weird and sinful doctrines that he teaches.

And I know, Andrew, you came up with a list of questions, 12 very simple questions, such as, do you meet with women alone on a regular basis?

We can give these questions again, if you want. And these questions still have not been answered, even in what you're about to announce. These questions still have not been answered. Yeah. So, do you want to read them all?

Yeah. Do you meet alone with women on a regular basis? Do you ask for details of spousal intimacy? Have you ever said, quote, to not trust the elders, unquote, is to, quote, not trust God, unquote. Number four, have you ever said whatever the elders would counsel for you, for your life is perfect?

Number five, have you ever said that GFC is the only true church in the Quad Cities? Number six, do you believe the elders have nearly unlimited authority in the lives of congregants? Have you ever said if someone owns a gun, is in the military or police, they have premeditated murder in their hearts?

Do you share details about counseling sessions with other members? Did you ever imply that men and women should be able to kiss someone else on the lips that is not his or her spouse? Have you ever shared details of your own sexual intimacy with any of the people in your counseling sessions with members of the opposite sex?

Do you believe you are infallible against sexual immorality? And the last one, by name, what specific pastors, theologians, and or teachers have you condoned the practice of meeting with women alone in counseling sessions?

So those were the 12 questions that we had.

Yeah. And I can assure you on that last question, that Phil Johnson and Justin Peters are not two of them because I've spoken with both of them personally. And so even though there's been rumors out there that Phil has condoned this or has been okay with it, that is absolutely, completely false.

Absolutely, completely false. So having said all these questions, Andrew, very simple to answer, right? And he knows these questions are out there. He's been given these questions. He's decided not to answer these questions.

And so what we have found out in recent times is that Mike Reed decided to do a response video, he and his elders, and they did a response video for their congregation.

Now, that was a great video, right? I mean, you got to see it and get all the answers to the questions, right? Oh, yeah.

That was a great, great video. Yeah. April fools. Yeah. Yeah. Because apparently his response video for our questions was not given to the public. It was only allowed to be shown to people who were in the church.

Well, in fact, it was sent to people that I spoke to at Grace Community Church. And the issue that came up is Tony Miano was going to be coming back out there to be able to do some evangelism. And they actually, some folks over there watched all of the episodes we did on Dangerous Doctrines.

And so in that, what ends up happening is they gave a response video to, I guess, some of the elders over there at Grace Community Church. But you know who hasn't gotten a video that's responding to what we've done?

Us.

Yeah. You know who else hasn't gotten it? Kevin and Jen Yant, who are the ones who were the big whistleblowers a couple of years ago and have continued to be whistleblowers. They also have not gotten the opportunity.

In fact, Mike Reed does not want to talk to them at all unless Kevin and Jen fly across the country and go back to their church and meet in front of their elders with nobody else present in order to levy charges.

And that's the thing that, I mean, I do find it very interesting that someone would do a response video to the work we did, but they don't want us to see it. And even the folks that did have it, I guess, were, you know, it was given to them with, I guess, instructions not to share it.

And so Kevin has requested it. Does seem strange. I did ask someone who at least got to see it and said, have they, first off, is there anything that we said that they said we got inaccurate or is there anything that, you know, where they felt they needed to correct something we said?

Did they answer any of the dozen questions we asked? And basically the answer was they really didn't answer the questions. They didn't in this response video that we can't see. I do think it's strange.

You respond to someone, but you don't want the person you're responding, you know, just you want people to see it, but not the person that actually kind of levied the accusation. Almost as if they don't want people to know that this exists because they don't want anyone to see their poor responses maybe, or someone to question their responses.

Yeah. It's almost like they want to control the narrative, like the Democrat party. Yeah, that's right.

So on that, if there's anybody who can get their hands on a video, or if there's anybody who has left Mike Reed's church and has a copy of that video, we'd love to have a copy of it. And we'd love to show it live and work through it.

So, all right. And so for folks, real quick, for folks on Facebook, Anthony sometimes will also respond to folks on chat. So if people on Facebook are wondering why it says we will bond servants from striving fraternity ministries, it's because Anthony doesn't know how to click the little box at the bottom that says to choose between Facebook and YouTube.

So he's responding to someone on YouTube. It's amazing that Anthony knows how to drill in people's teeth.

Okay. It's just, it's just, I can do blindfolded.

All right. So let's bring in A .M. Rooster now. So, so Anthony, you know, I don't, I don't know that, you know, Aaron very well. I do not. But he's one of the podcast, actually, he has two of the podcasts in the Christian podcast community, but I'm going to ask you, Aaron, to introduce yourself.

And it's one of your podcasts on that actually brought about this topic. But you know, this is coming, Aaron, you know, I'm going to make you have to explain this, but he's an actual ninja. I'm going to let him explain it.

Before I do that, I'm going to say, Anthony, apparently I know a lot more about you than you know about me, because man, what he's been saying about you for the past 16 minutes is just, it's gold. It's absolute gold.

So I'm glad you have a chance now to get to know me a little bit. Yeah. Usually doing this to me. Trust me. Okay. Yeah. So I'm, I'm a ninja, right? That's okay. That's the thing. So I actually have been studying the martial arts since I was 12 years old.

I have studied over 10 different styles. I've been teaching since I was 15. I have three different black belts, one in Tang Sudo, one in a traditional form of ninjutsu and one in a modernized ninjutsu.

I have a first degree, a third degree, and then I have a fifth degree black belt in the modern ninjutsu. So technically when you study ninjutsu, when you become a black belt, you are officially a ninja.

Now it's, you know, it's nothing like Hollywood, Andrew. I keep having to tell him he doesn't listen. I know it's not like the smoke bombs and the climbing of walls and all that kind of, it's just, it's not, but he just, so I, you know, I maybe that's why I wore all black today.

I did it for you.

Wait, so you're saying that you don't do all this just to prepare for the TV show. It's true. It's true. I don't, I don't.

I thought that's what being a ninja was all about. Exactly. Modern. Or was it, was it a American ninja warrior? That's what it is. I watched those people and I just go, wow. You know, and probably in real life they can climb a rope and get over a wall and do all that kind of stuff, but I could still beat them up.

So I just have that.

I feel better about myself. Please tell me you at least know how to throw those little star things, right? Yes.

Yes, I do. I have studied most of the traditional weapons. My favorites are the nunchaku or as we would call them nunchucks and the bow, which is like the six foot staff.

Oh yeah. One of the Ninja Turtles had that Donatello man. And it's hello. Yeah. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. I got black belts and AR 15, a Sig P 938 and a few others. That's about all I have.

I have a similar one in the, in the Springfield XDS mod too. I, so I have a, that, that one of those similar belts ranks. Yes, that's a nice one.

All right. So, so Aaron, on one of your podcasts, Celebration of God, and I put up a banner, folks, if you want to check out his podcasts, he has two of them. One is Truth, Love, Parent podcast. Both of his podcasts, Celebration of God and Truth, Love, Parent are both available at the Christian podcast community.

Go to christianpodcastcommunity .org and you can find both of them there and subscribe to them. Excellent podcasts. I was actually listening to his podcast before he joined. And so when he joined, I was like, oh, this is easy.

So, but you had a podcast. I'm going to let you, you start off. I, I don't know if you got a chance to listen. I, about two years ago on my Daily Rap Report podcast, that's a two minute one. I had dealt with the question of the day that Jesus died.

Uh, and I thoroughly, you know, proved without a shadow of a doubt that, that Friday, the traditional day is the accurate day. And, and so you mistakenly have gone on your podcast and decided to, to say that, that, you know, you actually think it was Thursday.

So, but I wanted to, I thought, you know, with, with Resurrection Sunday coming up, you know, with whether today is good Thursday or for us, good Friday tomorrow, uh, this would be a good starter topic.

Um, so why don't you go through quickly for folks who didn't listen, get a chance to listen to your podcast, go through your, your position with why you think that, um, why it was Thursday was the day Christ died.

There we go. I'm back. You know, I asked him if this was going to be a discussion or debate. He says, oh, it's just a discussion. I'm kind of getting that debate feel. I don't know. I'm kind of feeling like the, uh, like I need to get my sparring gear on or something.

Um, yeah, it's the celebration of God. So this is, uh, this whole thing about Easter has been a, uh, something I've been working on for all over five years now. It's just, uh, been one of those things that's just a passion.

I, as a follower of Christ, I wanted to understand, uh, these and answer these big questions that I had. Now I listened to your podcast, actually I did, and I think you did a great job. It's exactly what I would have expected to hear.

It's exactly what I believed, uh, for the majority of my life. Uh, with, with the occasion, I mean, as growing up as a child, I always had these questions in my head on Easter, you know, the big theological questions that every kid asked their parents.

Uh, but for the most part, you know, when it came right down to it, I just accepted that Jesus Christ was crucified on Friday. And, uh, and that was that. Uh, and so I, I, I loved what you said and how you put it out there.

And the fact that you could do it in two minutes, even just eight minutes, all of them together was amazing to me. I hope you're not expecting me to do the same thing. Um, there are, I have three main points that I like to focus on.

Uh, one of them was the main one that you addressed. And so I'll start with that. And that has to do with the number three, right? Um, and of course, everyone who's a Christian, who's read the scriptures knows that, uh, the number three, when it came to, you know, Jesus rising three days later was extremely, uh, important and, uh, desperately, you know, uh, it was, it needed to be fulfilling prophecy and so on and so forth.

And all throughout the scriptures, he talks about in three days and the prophets talk about in three days and so on and so forth. But there's one passage in particular, uh, being one that sticks out to me as being a significant issue, uh, with the Friday night, Friday crucifixion, um, and Friday burial.

And that's the fact that it's the, uh, the passage of Matthew 1240, where Christ says for his Jonah 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.

Now this is known as Christ's sign of Jonah. It comes from Jonah 117 that talks about how the Lord appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah. And he was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights.

Now in Sunday school, uh, we know when they have the felt board, right? Um, and they have Jonah and they've got the, the whale and everything. Um, everyone just accepts the fact that he was in the belly of the whale for three days and for three nights.

Um, and we don't have an issue with that. Everyone's fine with that. And so here Christ is quoting that in two times in the same passage, he says, um, just as he was in the belly of the whale or the fish for three days and three nights.

So the son of man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights. And, uh, one, one big, one big question I have about that is the fact that if he were buried during the daytime hours on Friday, now, by the way, what you said about the word day, uh, in your podcast, being able to be used for a portion of a day, a full day, even just an age, which could be a ton of days is a hundred percent correct for the Hebrew usage of the word, even the Greek usage of the word, uh, the word day didn't need to always refer to a 24 hour day.

And I agree with that. Um, but still, even with that said, uh, even though we could say, you know, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, three days. Um, when we look specifically at that passage where Christ makes a big deal out of saying three days and three nights, if he were buried during the daytime hours on Friday and then rose on the, uh, before the daytime hours, the Bible is very clear about rising before the daytime hours on Sunday.

That's only two days and two nights. That would be Friday day in the grave. Now a portion of the day, which would count as the whole thing, Friday night, Saturday day, Saturday night, he raises before Sunday day.

Therefore it was only two days and two nights in the grave. And I think in the exact same way that we take, uh, Jonah, you know, uh, for what it is literally, uh, that he was in the whale for three days and three nights.

Uh, I think it's very important that we take Christ literally here, which is why he specifically made it a point to say that. So do you want me to get to the other points too, or do you want to have a chance to answer that?

How do you want to do this discussion debate slash thing?

Um, well, I'll say this and, and I'll kind of, I guess, correct a little bit. I would argue he, with that, it was, he was, he would be buried for three days and two nights, maybe then not to do because right.

He was in the ground Friday before sundown. And that's one of the things that I dealt with on my podcast is that it's sundown is the, is the time break. So Friday day, Saturday day, and then Sunday in the morning was sun, you know, is now Sunday.

So can I say something to that real quick? Cause that's a, I, that's a totally fair observation. I think one of the important things we need to remember though, and I have a feeling I've heard you talk about this before, so forgive me if I'm wrong.

Um, but the Jews historically during that time, and even nowadays don't count time the same way we do. Correct. Um, they have the evening and the morning, basically the evening and the day being their day.

And one of the really important elements, uh, I believe of Christ's rising and the Bible specifically says before dawn, before dawn, every single time, you know, rising before dawn, uh, is the fact that he didn't actually get into the, what would be considered the Jewish daytime hours.

He was in the Jewish evening hours of Sunday, but he wasn't in the Jewish daytime hours of Sunday, which I think is a really important observation to look at.

Yeah. And so I think, I think there, what we get to is the question of, cause I think this is where we end up differing, right? Either the three days and three nights is literally three days and three nights, or it's just referring to three period, three days of time, uh, in which you have either one.

And so, I mean, my argument is, and I would agree that the passage you bring out is probably the strongest argument I know of for a Thursday burial.

Oh man, I can't wait to show you the other stuff then if that's what you think.

I already listened to both your podcasts on this. Oh, but I got more. I brought more.

Okay. All right. So that's the one thing. And like I said, you, uh, you, uh, you answered that. Um, the two other points are the, and the second one is kind of a smorgasbord. It's a, it's a, a potpourri miscellaneous category.

I just called the textual questions, um, because there are some important textual questions that all apply to this particular thing. I'm going to go through this as quickly as I can, uh, but it's so fascinating for me.

I hope you guys, uh, think equally that it's, it's cool. Um, one of the questions that gets asked a lot in regard to this is when was the Passover actually observed? Um, because there are some, uh, there are some passages in the scripture that give us that, that confuse people.

I'll just put it that, that, that way. Uh, it talks about Jesus observing the Passover with his disciples. Um, but then it talks about the fact that that, what we call the last supper actually was before the Passover.

And so, uh, just to, to simplify this, uh, really during that time period, historically, the Passover was observed at two different times and in two different places. We know from Exodus 12, seven, that God originally prescribed through Moses that the Passover would be celebrated at twilight on Nisan 14.

Now Nisan is the Jewish month and the day 14, they don't say like the 14th of Nisan like we do. They say Nisan 14. And that was the day that God prescribed way back in Exodus. And the families were meeting together at twilight.

They were slaughtering the lamb in their home. They were putting it up on the, on the doorposts and they were celebrating that together. However, long before the time of Jesus, many Jews, specifically the religious leaders had started observing the Passover in the temple.

This started during the reforms of Josiah and second Chronicles 30 and 35. And I wanted to quote from the encyclopedia, uh, Judaica, because I think it's really fascinating. He says, quote, the first Passover consists of, sorry, the feast of Passover consists of two parts, the Passover ceremony and the feast of unleavened bread.

Originally, both parts existed separately, but at the beginning of the Babylonian exile, they were combined. Now concerning this practice, David Crabb makes this really interesting observation. He says this careless and unscriptural merging of festivals resulted in the Jews observing Passover late on Abib 14 or Nisan 14, as it was later renamed just hours before the feast of unleavened bread.

Thus, a third variation of Passover observance was added to the mix. So there was a lot of confusion and people were honestly doing Passover in different ways at different times. So here's my conclusion.

You're not going to like the day, but just stick with me for a minute. Jesus and his disciples followed the traditional observance of the Passover, which makes all the sense in the world that he would do that because that's what it was instituted by God, the father.

That was on Nisan 14, which was the date of the Passover. But of course, evening precedes day. And so I would say that, and I would argue that he was observing the Passover with his disciples on what we would call Wednesday evening, which was the beginning of Nisan 14.

Whereas the scribes and the Pharisees were planning to eat the Passover at the temple later during the daytime hours of Nisan 14, which would have been our Thursday afternoon. This is why Matthew 26, 17 refers to the last supper as the Passover.

But John 13, one through two says that the last supper was before the Passover. And that's an important part of this. We'll see how it connects in a minute. Another one of the textual questions that comes up is when is the first day of unleavened bread?

Okay. Is it the Passover? Is it the day after the Passover? How does that work? And there's a lot of confusion on this matter. Some people refer to the Passover as Nisan 14, and then Nisan 15 is the first day of unleavened bread.

Some people today refer to the Passover and the entire feast of unleavened bread, which is seven days, they call the whole thing the Passover. And then some people refer to the Passover just as the first day of unleavened bread.

Like it's kind of like the eighth day that got tacked on, the first of eight days that got tacked on. But when we go to Exodus 12, seven and Leviticus 23, five through eight, we learned that the Passover was celebrated on Nisan 14 and the feast of unleavened bread was to start on Nisan 15.

And I'll let you guys look at those passages on your own. Okay. So this provides us half of the clarity because I, Andrew, I appreciate that you brought up Matthew 26, 17 in your podcast. This understanding about the feast of unleavened bread brings up a really kind of half of the clarity needed to understand what it means in Matthew 26, 17, when it says now on the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?

Okay. So if, if the actual Passover were the first day of unleavened bread, there wouldn't, there would have been a problem. The disciples wouldn't have eaten the Passover on the first day of unleavened bread.

That would have been a day late for them because the Passover was before that day. They also wouldn't prepare the Passover meal on the first day of unleavened bread because the first day of unleavened bread was a high Sabbath, just like the seventh day was.

So Passover preparations would have broken all of the Sabbath rules. Okay. But the verse says on the first day of unleavened bread. All right. So we see, we need some more clarification. We need some help putting all this together.

And here's the second half of what I believe is going to give us the full clarity for understanding this. Um, it comes from really what I'm going to call an unfortunate English translation. All right.

Um, in the King James, for those of us who grew up on that, it reads now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus. There's no preposition on like there is with a lot of our modern translations.

And then the word day and feast are all in italics, uh, meaning that they're at the context. They weren't there in the original. So the passage could read now first of the unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus.

Now that's a terrible translation. I never claimed to be a Greek scholar and that's obviously why they didn't translate it that way. And it obviously just doesn't make any sense in English, but the Greek word translated first in scripture is often translated before.

It's kind of like the word day. It doesn't just refer to one thing. For example, in John 1, 15 and verse 30, John uses the same Greek word to explain that Jesus existed before John existed. And in John 15, 18, Jesus himself uses the word.

He says, if the world hates you, you know, that it's hated me before it hated you. All right. So going back to Matthew 26, 17, we find that a correct English translation, uh, would have to read now before the day of unleavened bread.

And this is totally consistent with the fact that the Passover was really genuinely the day before the first day of the feast of unleavened bread. All right. Now, uh, somebody who believes that Christ died on a Friday would have no problem with that because, um, Passover would have been on Friday, the day before the feast of unleavened bread, which would have been on the Saturday and everything's fine.

Okay. But there's another consideration we have to understand. This is another one of these potpourri topics of textual questions. When was the Sabbath during this passion week? And of course, we all know, uh, there are four times in scripture that the word preparation and Sabbath show up together.

Only four times, uh, one in each of the gospels. And it tells us that, uh, in Mark 15, 42, when evening had already come because it was the preparation day, the day before the Sabbath, Joseph of Marimathea, he asked for the body of Christ.

And Luke 23, 54, it says something very similar. Um, in John 19, 31, it tells us that the Jews, because it was the day of preparation so that bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath for that Sabbath was a high day.

They went and asked Pilate for the body. And then the, uh, the fourth one is actually from Matthew 27, 62. And it actually refers to the day after Jesus's death as being the day after the preparation.

Okay. So I know I'm going through this quickly. Stick with me. Since the weekly Sabbath started on Friday evening and continue through the afternoon on Saturday, most Christians have understood this day of preparation before the Sabbath to be the evening and the daytime hours that preceded Friday evening.

All right. So Jesus, if he died on Passover, if he died on the preparation before the Sabbath, he clearly died on Friday. The conclusion that is, you know, moving backward, Jesus was raised on Sunday.

He was in the tomb on the Sabbath, Saturday. He was crucified on Friday, the preparation, and he observed the Passover on Thursday evening. But there are some other, there are actually a lot of issues associated with this understanding, but there's only one issue I want to focus on right now is that there were often more than one Sabbath in a Jewish week.

All right. Um, the, in this particular event, the first Sabbath, um, if it happened right after the, I'm sorry, the second Sabbath happened right after the first Sabbath, they shared the same day of preparation because depending on the year, the Jews observed a ton of Sabbaths.

I won't even go through the list right now, but basically it's over 60 Sabbaths in a year that only had 50 to 54 weeks in it, depending on the year. Okay. So if we assume that the Mark 1542 Sabbath is Saturday, then a Friday crucifixion makes sense, at least partial sense.

But what if there were another Sabbath that week that landed before Saturday? And as we've already learned, the seventh day or the seven day feast of unleavened bread is preceded by the feast of the Passover.