The Crucifixion Was Not On Friday PDF - Church of God Faithful Flock
The Crucifixion Was Not On Friday PDF - Church of God Faithful Flock
The Crucifixion Was Not On Friday PDF - Church of God Faithful Flock
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Crucifixion</strong> <strong>Was</strong> <strong>Not</strong> on <strong>Friday</strong> 9Let us suppose again that Jesus was crucified on <strong>Friday</strong>. If H(•were to rise on the first day after His crucifixion and burial, HEwould be raised on Saturday; if on the second day after hiscrucifixion, He would rise on Sunday; but if He wereto rise on the third da y, He would ha ve been raised on Monday!But Jesus was already resurrected by Sunday morning. Plainly,<strong>Friday</strong> was not the day <strong>of</strong> the crucifixion!How clear that all these expressions mean the same thing- three days and three nights - 72 hours! J esus never oncesaid He would be parts <strong>of</strong> three days in the grave.How the Bible Counts DaysAdam Clarke, in his commentary on Matthew 12:40, quotesthe Jewish Talmud in support <strong>of</strong> the idea that three days andthree nights supposedly mean one day and two nights! <strong>The</strong>Seventh Day Adventist Bible Commentary implies the same.But the Bible is not interpreted by the Jewish Talmud or bya human Commentary. Jesus rejected the Talmudic traditions<strong>of</strong> the Jews.In the April 1956 issues <strong>of</strong> the Review and Herald, the<strong>of</strong>ficial publication <strong>of</strong> the Seventh Day Adventists, appeared twoarticles on the crucifixion listing severa! texts which, they claim,indicate that three days means no more than a day and onehalf!Let's look at these verses to see if the Scripture supportswhat they claim.Here is the first text they <strong>of</strong>fer as "pro<strong>of</strong>" that "after threedays" does not mean after three days! <strong>Not</strong>ice it!King Rehoboam told the people who carne to meet him:"Come again unto me after three days. And the people departed"(II Chronicles 10:5). <strong>The</strong> same event is quoted inI Kings 12: 5, "Depart yet for three days, then come again untome." <strong>The</strong> story continues with verse 12: "So J eroboam and allthe people carne to Rehoboam the third day, as the king hadappointed, saying, Come to me again the third day."<strong>The</strong> people left "for three days" and did not return until"after three days"- "as the king had appointed." Let us supposethey had first met the king sometime on <strong>Friday</strong>. As theywere ordered to return at the end <strong>of</strong> three days, they could nothave returned before the same time <strong>of</strong> day the following
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