Matthew 12:40

[The Irish Ram]

lol. Friday daytime comes before Friday nighttime. Friday night is the second part of Friday and the first part of the Jewish sabbath. . If you believe Christ died on Friday, and he was gone by Sunday, how many days and nights was Christ in the heart of the earth again?
And what do you do with John's special sabbath? He said the day AFTER Christ died was a special sabbath. If Jesus died on Fri. then the next day would merely be the weekly sabbath, not a special one. Do you just ignore John telling us about the annual sabbath?

Let's use your math and see if it matches scripture:
According to you, Christ dies on Friday 3 hours before the beginning of the weekly sabbath, and is removed from the cross before the weekly sabbath begins at 6pm. ( He was not in the heart of the earth on Fri-day. He was hanging on a cross in Israel on Fri. His body was still with them and was laid in the tomb right before Fri @ 6pm. So, Friday night to Saturday would be 1 night. So, Christ, on Saturday, was in the heart of the earth, It was His day 1. Saturday night to Sunday would be night #2.
Before the sun even came up Sunday morning, Mary went to the tomb and Christ was already gone. By your calculations how long was Christ in the heart of the earth? 2 nights and 1 day. John gave you the answer to the controversy, and you simply choose to ignore it.

Explain what John was referring to and see then if that gives you the 3 days and 3 nights, because your calculations do not. John gave you the correct timeframe, and you simply choose to leave it out of your calculations, which is why you come up short.

 

[The Irish Ram]

Jewish people would never ask that.

And the Sabbath rarely starts at 6pm.

If they asked the Romans to kill Jesus, they wouldn't mind a few broken legs before the High Day Sabbath. Let's continue with scripture and Jewish John:

John 19:31-33 Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down. The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other.

 

[rosends]

If they asked the Romans to kill Jesus, they wouldn't mind a few broken legs before the High Day Sabbath.

if the text makes one historically erroneous claim, why not keep making them. I see.

Let's continue with scripture and Jewish John:

John 19:31-33 Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down. The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other.

Next, I get to quote Harry Potter. Fiction is fiction.

 

[The Irish Ram]

if the text makes one historically erroneous claim, why not keep making them. I see.

Next, I get to quote Harry Potter. Fiction is fiction.

You had better hope you are wrong because Israel is about to become ground zero. 1/3 of the Jews are going to be killed and 1/3 of what is left of them are also going to be killed. You will be a remnant by the time Christ comes back to stop it.

 

[ding]

According to you, Jesus spent the day Friday nailed to a cross. He died right before sundown. So, from Friday night to Saturday morning would be the 1st night. Saturday would be the first day. From Saturday night to Sunday morning would be the 2nd night. He was gone from the tomb on Sunday. And since we know that Jesus does not lie, then there needs to be a different calculation.
We know from John that there was a sabbath on the day after Christ died. Not the regular weekly Friday sabbath, but a special one. If the regular sabbath starts on Friday night, and that is when Christ died, then John was wrong about a special sabbath. I was just the weekly one. And yet, John made the distinction, and it fits exactly the 3 days and nights Jesus said he would be spending. The fact that John was the one who told us about the double sabbath, it is worth taking note. Which sabbath would correlate with Jesus' statement, the weekly one or the special one?

• Mark & Luke: These gospels typically record Jesus saying he will be killed and rise "after three days" (Mark 8:31, 9:31) or "the third day" (Luke 9:22, 13:32, 24:7, 24:46). Luke 24:21 also records disciples mentioning it is "the third day" since the crucifixion.
• John: Refers to the destruction and rebuilding of the temple in "three days" (John 2:19-21), interpreted post-resurrection as referring to his body.

 

[The Irish Ram]

But Jesus made a point about how long He would be in the heart of the earth, in days and nights. He even used Jonah as an example, which was also 3 days and 3 nights. That works literally if you use what John said. There were 2 sabbaths. One fits the timeframe and one doesn't. Why won't you consider what John said?