Why is there no proof in any Bible that Jesus rose from the dead on Sunday?

Answer 1

The only proof you have is written versions of oral recollections that happened over 2000 years ago. There were no photographs or videos at that time. Certainly there are no direct witnesses alive. Many of us believe that the event occurred; without proof even you cannot say it didn't happen.

Answer 2

The gospels may not be proof of the resurrection, but they could be written evidence that it did happen. This is even more the case if it can be shown that the gospel accounts, although different, are genuine recollections of witnesses and the differences are those we would expect from different witnesses. However, Archbishop Peter Carnley writes:
"The presence of discrepancies might be a sign of historicity if we had four clearly independent but slightly different versions of the story, if only for the reason that four witnesses are better than one. But, of course, it is now impossible to argue that what we have in the four gospel accounts of the empty tomb are four contemporaneous but independent accounts of the one event. Modern redactional studies of the traditions account for the discrepancies as literary developments at the hand of later redactors of what was originally one report of the empty tomb...

There is no suggestion that the tomb was discovered by different witnesses on four different occasions, so it is in fact impossible to argue that the discrepancies were introduced by different witnesses of the one event; rather, they can be explained as four different redactions for apologetic and kerygmatic reasons of a single story originating from one source."

We now know that the one single report was that written in the Gospel of Mark, which originally ended at verse 16:8 with the young man telling the women that Jesus was risen and they fled in terror, telling no one. This is scarcely proof of a resurrection, and the subsequent gospel authors attempted to address that, as did an editor who added the 'Long Ending' (verses 16:9-20) to Mark.

Answer 3

Because He didn't. He was already arisen in the dark early morning hours of Sunday (1st day of week)


John 20New International Version (NIV)The Empty Tomb20 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.2 So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”

Many Bible students believe Jesus arose just before sunset but on the Sabbath or Saturday. Here is a timeline for your reading pleasure:

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, 10 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).