His first year isn’t complete until he reaches his twelve-month anniversary. It’s why a president’s “first” year in office is the one that begins immediately upon his inauguration.
The first unit of time after something happens begins immediately after the event. To understand which day was the third, one must understand a couple things about how biblical authors counted: However, the standard way of referring to the timing of the event was “on the third day”-a usage also found outside the Gospels (Acts 10:40, 1 Corinthians 15:4). Mark also records three instances of him saying he will rise “after three days” (Mark 8:31, 9:31, 10:34), and John has him saying it will happen “in three days” (John 2:20). This is the standard way that Jesus referred to the time he would rise. You’ll note that in Matthew the Jewish authorities asked that the tomb be secured until “the third day” (Matt. He thus indicates that Jesus was crucified and buried on the day of preparation (Friday), which preceded the sabbath (Saturday), and he was discovered alive again “on the first day of the week” (John 20:1).”Īll four Gospels thus point to the same Friday-Saturday-Sunday chronology, with each saying specifically that Jesus was crucified on the day of preparation (cf. He then says that the Jewish leaders asked for the legs of the crucified to be broken “since it was the day of preparation, in order to prevent the bodies from remaining on the cross on the sabbath (for that sabbath was a high day)” (John 19:31)-and a sabbath falling in Passover did have extra solemnity.įinally, John indicates that Jesus was buried hurriedly, in a nearby tomb: “So because of the Jewish day of preparation, as the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there” (John 19:42). Mark’s chronology thus has Jesus being buried on a Friday and raised on a Sunday, with the weekly sabbath intervening.įinally, John says that Jesus was crucified “the day of preparation of the Passover” (John 19:14, LEB)-that is, the Friday in Passover week. This is particularly significant because he then says the women found the tomb empty “when the sabbath was over” (Mark 16:1). Mark says that Jesus was buried, “the day of preparation, the day before the sabbath” (Mark 15:42). Matthew thus indicates that Jesus was buried on the day of preparation (Friday), and the next day-Saturday-the priests requested a guard be posted until the third day (Sunday). The next day, the one following the day of preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate and said, “Sir, we remember that this impostor while still alive said, ‘After three days I will be raised up.’ Give orders, then, that the grave be secured until the third day” (Matthew 27:62-64). Speaking of the same day that the women rested, Matthew records: 
The same is indicated by the other Gospels. What Luke is saying thus is that Jesus was crucified on Friday, the women rested on Saturday, and they found his tomb empty on Sunday.
Pesaḥim 4:1 the day is called ‘Yoma da-’Arubta’ (Day of Preparation)” (s.v. “The idea of preparation is expressed by the Greek name paraskeuê, given by Josephus ( Ant. “This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Tomorrow is a day of solemn rest, a holy sabbath to the Lord bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over lay by to be kept till the morning’” (Exodus 16:23).įriday thus became known as the day of preparation.
That way he could lie in the tomb all of Thursday, all of Friday, and all of Saturday, only to be raised early on Sunday.Įvery year at this time-and periodically throughout the year-I get email from people telling me that I, and the vast majority of scholars (Catholic and Protestant alike), don’t know what we’re talking about when placing the Crucifixion on a Friday. To solve this dilemma, some propose that Jesus was actually crucified earlier-on a Wednesday. Many people ask, if Jesus was crucified on Good Friday, how could he rise on Easter Sunday? That’s not “three days and three nights” later-at least by our reckoning. However, it raises a question about the timing of these events. This has widely-and correctly-been understood as a reference to the period he spent in the tomb, between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection. Just as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.
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