that is wrong! Jesus died 3PM and was buried before the Sabbath! YOu education is woefully lacking.
I don't think I need to be attacked for you to make your point. But okay. I understand. I know that whenever someone attacks me personally, I must have given that person something to think about.
I mentioned the parable of the landowner. This parable gave me many clues as to how the Jews treat a day. Have you not read this parable? Before we get to that, let's look at another verse related to time.
John 11:9
Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
Jesus did not consider a partial day to be a full day. He tells you that there are twelve hours in a day. Did his disciples say, "It's okay Lord. You already worked 10 hours, that's just a full day to us." No. His question was rhetorical, expecting affirmative agreement. Of course there are twelve hours in a day. He knew it and so did they. Everyone knew the difference between a full day and a partial day.
Parable of the Landowner:
Read and review Matthew 20:1-16
Here Jesus tells a parable, a story drawn from everyday life. A landowner hires a crew to work his fields. Some he hires early in the morning; others he hires at various times throughout the day. Since this story is taken from everyday life, we can know something about how the first century Jewish people thought about time. The day is divided up into twelve hours beginning "early in the morning." (verse 20:1)
At the beginning of the day, the landowner agreed to pay his laborers a denarius for a full day's work. At the end of the day, when it came time to pay his workers, he decided to pay each of them the same. Every man, whether he worked 12 hours or one hour received a denarius. If Jewish culture considered a partial day to count as a full day, then the men had no complaint. But these men understood that if the landowner was fair and just, he would apportion each man's wage according to the number of hours he worked.
The landowner and the laborers all share a common understanding about fair labor, especially with regard to wages. But his argument is not based on fairness, i.e. those who work for more hours deserve more pay. His argument is based on his generosity. Those whom he hired in the morning should not be upset that he is paying the same wage to those whom he hired at the 11th hour.
My point is this. From the New Testament itself, we can see that neither Jesus, nor his disciples, nor his culture understand that a partial day is like a full day. We also see, from this parable that the day began early in the morning. What about the term "evening".
Consider Matthew 24:15. In that verse we discern that the term "
evening" indicated the end of the day when folks gathered to relax and have dinner or supper. The day is over. When evening came the workers stopped working and the landowner gave them their wages. Evening is after sunset Mark 1:32; Evening is when Jesus and his disciples ate the Passover Matthew 26:20, Mark 14:17.
My point here is this. First century Jews employed the term "evening" to speak about the end of the day when all work had ceased, when people ate the main meal of the day, when people relaxed and held conversation, just before it was time for bed. Evening is not a partial day; evening comes after the day is spent and the night has begun.
Jesus died the ninth hour of the day but this is not the hour when he was placed in a tomb. According to Matthew, "When it was
evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph . . . who asked Pilate for the body of Jesus." This is not a partial day; the day was over. It was supper time. Joseph went to ask Pilate for the body of Jesus and surely this took time. What time was it when Jesus actually entered the tomb? The text doesn't say specifically, but we can be sure that the day was over and night had begun. There is no way to count Friday as a partial day because the day was already over.
YOu may consider it dubious- but the Jews didn't too bad you reject what is history for your revisionist view!
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So what? These men weren't there. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were eye witnesses to these events. If Eddersheim and Fruchtenbaum disagree with the apostles, I trust the apostles.
