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• Reason for this page? -- The scripture says our redeemer would be in the grave three days and three nights no more and no less. It is the tradition of men that says this is between Friday sunset to Sunday sunrise, which cannot be three days and three nights. The gospels show a different time frame, which is Wednesday crucifixion not Friday.

Since Jesus was crucified on the day before the Sabbath, we can understand why some have thought of Friday as the day of the crucifixion. But the Sabbath that followed his death was not the weekly Sabbath, but an annual Sabbath -- "for that Sabbath was an high day" (John 19:14, 31). This Sabbath could fall on any day of the week and that year apparently came on Thursday. He was crucified and buried on the preparation day (Wednesday), the next day was the high day Sabbath (Thursday). Then Friday, followed by the weekly Sabbath (Saturday). Understanding that there were two Sabbaths that week explains how Christ could be crucified on the day before the Sabbath, was already risen from the tomb when the day after the Sabbath came -- yet fulfilling his sign of three days and three nights.

A careful comparison of Mark 16:1 with Luke 23:56 provides further evidence there were two Sabbaths that week -- with a common work day between the two. Mark 16:1 says: "And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary the Mother of James, and Salome, bought sweet spices that they might come and anoint him." This verse states that it was after the Sabbath when these women bought their spices. Luke 23:56, however, states that they prepared the spices and after preparing them rested on the Sabbath: "And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment." The one verse says it was after the Sabbath the women bought spices; the other verse says they prepared the spices before the Sabbath. Since they couldn't prepare the spices until first they had purchased them, the evidence for two different Sabbaths that week seems conclusive.

"The Bible nowhere says or implies that Jesus was crucified and died on Friday. It is said that Jesus was crucified on "the day before the Sabbath"... Now the Bible does not leave us to speculate in regard to which Sabbath is meant in this instance... it was not the day before the weekly Sabbath (that is, Friday), but it was the day before the Passover Sabbath, which came this year on Thursday -- that is to say, the day on which Jesus Christ was crucified was Wednesday. John makes this as clear as day.

"Jesus was buried just about sunset on Wednesday. Seventy-two hours later... he arose from the grave. When the women visited the tomb just before dawn in the morning they found the grave already empty.

"There is absolutely nothing in favor of Friday crucifixion, but everything in the Scriptures is perfectly harmonized by Wednesday crucifixion. It is remarkable how many prophetical and typical passages of the Old Testament are fulfilled and how many seeming discrepancies in the gospel narratives are straightened out when we once come to understand that Jesus died on Wednesday, and not on Friday."