Does Jesus' death on Good Friday and His Sunday morning Resurrection fit with the Bible?

Answer 1

Jesus' crucifixion was never specifically stated that it was on a Friday. The early Church specified that recognition of his crucifixion to coincide with the pagan celebration of Oeaster, and called it Easter. Good Friday is the Christian version of the crucifixion, with resurrection on Sunday (Easter). However there are problems with the three days event: If Jesus were crucified on Friday, the resurrection would be on Monday. However the Church counted, incorrectly, Friday to Sunday so that it may be celebrated on the Christian's sabbath which is Sunday. From studying the Roman punishment of crucifixion it usually took days for a person to die, usually not one day. They suffocated and dehydrated. It was said to be an agonizing death. Bottom line, the celebrated Easter does not coincide with the gospel's recollection of Jesus' death and resurrection, just as the Biblical birth of Jesus has no connection to December 25th celebration of Christmas. That is another pagan holiday, the Yule of winter solstice.

ANOTHER ANSWER:

Very little of this world's goings-on fit with the Bible. Nor does the god of this world want it to.

This world's reckoning of what composes a "day," for instance, is not according to God's recognition. This world begins a day in the middle of the night [at twelve o'clock, the "witching hour"]. God begins the day as He created it; with the "night time" portion of the twenty-four hour day, first... or at "sundown." With the "daytime portion" of the twenty-four hour period finishing up the "day."

So, figuring a twenty-four hour day God's way doesn't require a "clock" or a "watch." Each new day, biblically speaking, starts at "sundown" with the "nighttime" portion of a twenty-four hour day beginning the day.

"...And the EVENING [nighttime] and the MORNING [daytime] were the first day." (Gen.1:5)

So, the backward way of this world's keeping track of the days renders the account of Christ's crucifixion difficult indeed for the average person to make much sense as to how it really went down.

If anyone would bother to study the Bible... they would quickly see that Jesus was crucified on the "Passover" -- a specially commanded annual "High Day Sabbath" of the LORD [not of the Jews]:

"These are the Feasts OF THE LORD [not Jewish holy days], even Holy Convocations [commanded assemblies; you hear modern professing Christians talk about "not forsaking the assembling of ourselves" - Heb.10:25; when they want to justify their gathering together in the name of the LORD: even as they ignorantly "forsake the commanded assemblies of the LORD" as He inspired the recording of them in Leviticus 23], which ye shall proclaim IN THEIR SEASONS. In the fourteenth day of the FIRST MONTH at even [evening] is THE LORD's PASSOVER. And on the fifteenth day of the same month [the day after the Passover] is THE FEAST of Unleavened Bread UNTO THE LORD..." (Lev.23:4-6).

A Satan-blinded and deceived modern professing Christianity is utterly blinded to the Truth of the "Christ-centered" Passover [Jesus Christ who is the LORD]... which totally "fits with the Bible" -- and has swallowed the counterfeit passover of the god of this world, "Easter" that happens to occur very near to the time of God's commanded annual Sabbath.

"...For even CHRIST OUR PASSOVER is sacrificed for us: therefore LET US KEEP THE FEAST..." (I Cor.5:7-8).

There is a wonderful "New Testament" commandment to KEEP THE FEASTS OF THE LORD for God's "New Testament church," as the LORD Himself commands of His servants to do as recorded "in the Bible." A commandment which modern professing Christianity has chosen to ignore for centuries, now.

Instead... they ignorantly observe "Easter" [a pagan Babylonian goddess of fertility] -- which is not in the Bible at all! "Good Friday"... "Sunday morning resurrection." You have to "find" them in the Bible, first, before they can "fit" there. Nowhere in the Bible does God command His servants to "celebrate Christ's resurrection on Sunday" -- or any other day for that matter.

No... the Bible commands [and it fits]... anciently... God's Faithful servants to observe THE PASSOVER; the DAY OF THE LORD's DEATH!

The Passover that fell on that week of Jesus' crucifixion didn't fall on "Friday" that week... good or otherwise. It fell on the day of the week that this twisted world calls "Wednesday" [named after the pagan god "Woden"]. And according to the reckoning of a "day" that "fits with the Bible"... the "fourth day of the week" on which the Passover fell that week [our Wednesday] would begin on our "Tuesday NIGHT at sundown!"

It wasn't "Good Friday" when Jesus was murdered... but ON THE PASSOVER that week. On our Wednesday. And Jesus observed the Passover that "Tuesday night" with His disciples that week. The "first part [nighttime portion] of the fourth day of that week."

Jesus was arrested on our TUESDAY NIGHT that week. And His trial before Pilate and His crucifixion occurred during the "daytime" portion of the Passover, the fourth day of that week. And He died and was placed in the tomb "before sundown" on that same fourth day: Passover day.

It's from THIS time that the "three days and three nights" should be counted. NOT FROM FRIDAY!

THIS is the real time frame that "fits with the Bible." From our Wednesday sundown [when Jesus was buried] to our Saturday sundown [when He arose from the tomb, at exactly the same time of day that He was buried] is exactly "three days and three nights."

So Jesus didn't resurrect on our "Sunday" in the morning, as this world's popular fable and false belief goes: which is not in keeping with Jesus' promise [Matt.12:39-40] or "fitting with the Bible." He rose from the tomb on our "Saturday afternoon" just before sundown... at exactly the same time of day that He was buried three days before!

The Bible doesn't say that Jesus was "ris-ING" on the "first day of the week" [not "Sunday" -- God numbers all the days of His created week except for the Sabbath Day; which He calls "the Sabbath."] the Bible says that Jesus was already "ris-EN" [Matt.28:6]... past tense... by the next morning: the first day of the week; our "Sunday."

No... this world's popular "Easter" fable and all the fallacies that go with it does not "fit with the Bible." The Bible reveals an entirely different set of events... beginning with that Passover [Tuesday] night, which Jesus passionately desired to share with His disciples for the last time, so that He could "change the way the Passover was to be kept and observed" with the symbols of the "Bread and Wine" from that night on until He would return from heaven where He was to ascend, later.

"...they made ready the Passover [not a "Friday" night meal]. And when the appointed hour was come [as commanded by the LORD in the Bible], He sat down, and the twelve apostles with Him. And He said unto them, 'With desire I have desired to EAT THIS PASSOVER [not, 'this EASTER dinner'] WITH YOU before I suffer..." (Luke 22:13-15).

There is no biblical command from God in the Bible for any of His servants "to observe or celebrate His Son's resurrection" or "Easter" or to "color Easter eggs" or to "bake hot-cross buns" or to "hide eggs" or any of the other "non-biblical" ancient pagan customs and traditions, that the deceived inhabitants of this world blindly keep and do as expected of them.

It certainly doesn't "fit with the Bible." But then... so few people have bothered to read the Bible, or know what's really written therein.

Answer 2

There seems to be a discrepancy between the three days prophesied between the death and the resurrection of the Messiah and the length of time from Friday afternoon to Sunday morning. We would call that either two days or a day and a half. Interestingly enough, however, is which group of people would call it three days: the ancient Romans, including the authorities who sentenced Jesus to death. When counting a period of days, their counts always included the first and last days. For example, most of us have heard of the Ides of March, which we refer to as March 15, the day of Julius Caesar's assassination. Well, what we refer to as March 14, the ancient Romans referred to as the second day before the Ides of March.

Answer 3

No. In 31 AD (the year that many biblical students consider the best fit with all Scripture), the Passover death of Jesus occurred during the daylight portion (Hebrew days begin and end at sunset) of Wednesday, April 25, 31 AD: see timeline below:

Luke 3:23New King James Version (NKJV)The Genealogy of Jesus Christ
23 Now Jesus Himself began His ministry at about thirty years of age, being (as
was supposed) the son of Joseph, the son of Heli,

Last Supper - Passover night, 25 April 31 AD, 4th Passover as Sir Isaac newton
first postulated

Crucifixion - Passover day 25 April 31 AD, just before sunset and start of High
Annual Sabbath of the Feast of Unleavened Bread

Resurrection - Saturday Sabbath, 28 April 31 AD, just before sunset and start of
first day - Sunday. Jesus ascends to the Father as the 'wave sheaf' offering for
mankinds' sins


Ascension - Thursday, 07 June 31 AD or 40 days after the Resurrection awaiting
Holy Spirit

NT Church - Pentecost Sunday (50 days after resurrection Saturday), 17 Jun 31 AD
and release of God's Holy Spirit to all He chooses (see John 6:44; 65).