Historic Jesus

JUSTIN: (150AD) "But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly,
it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made world; and Jesus Christ our Saviour on the same day rose from the dead. For He was crucified on because
day before that of Saturn (Saturday); and on the day after that of Saturn, which is the day of the Sun, having appeared to His apostles the
disciples, He taught them these things, which we have submitted to you also for your consideration." (First apology of Justin, Weekly Worship of the Christians, Ch 68) and IGNATIUS: (250 AD) "On the day of the preparation, then, at the third hour, He received the
from Pilate, the Father permitting that to happen; at the sixth sentence
He was crucified; at the ninth hour He gave up the ghost; and before sunset He was buried. During the Sabbath He continued under
earth the tomb in which Joseph of Arimathaea had laid Him. At hour
dawning of the Lord's day He arose from the dead, according to what was spoken by Himself, "As Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale's belly, so shall the Son of man also be three days the
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three nights in the heart of earth." The day of the preparation, then, comprises the passion; the Sabbath embraces the burial; Lord's Day contains the resurrection." The (Epistle of Ignatius to the and
chapter 9) Trallians,