On what day of the week was Christ crucified?
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I believe Scripture that He was in the tomb for 3 days & 3 nights. Even though we don't know exactly when the Resurrection occurred - when the disciples got to the tomb Sunday morn, it was already empty... it probably occurred about when the Sabbath rest ended Saturday at sunset & probably before midnight Saturday night. It is convoluted theology to expect that God would wait past midnight to schedule the resurrection on Sunday - the pagan day of worship - God has never tolerated anything pagan mixed in with His worship. The reason Christians worship on Sunday is because Emperor Constantine (practicing pagan until he was baptized on his death bed) decreed that the Sabbath must be desecrated in the Roman Empire and that Sunday would be the day of rest & worship for all, no matter what their religion. His decree called it "the venerable day of the sun god" & made NO mention of God, Jesus, Christ, Resurrection... or anything Christian. And his puppet Pope, Sylvester, rubber-stamped all of Constantine's heresies.\n\nCounting back from sunset on Saturday, you get a Wednesday Crucifixion! He would have been in the tomb Wed sunset to Thurs sunset (1st full nite & day), Thurs sunset to Fri sunset (2nd full nite & day), & Fri sunset to Sat sunset [THE SABBATH] (3rd nite & day).\n\nThere are many references in the NT to believers (i.e. "followers" of the Messiah & His Way) meeting on "the first day of the week"... which starts right after sunset on Saturday! One of the references is that Paul preached until midnight on the first day a the week - it doesn't say to droned on for 24 hours, or for even 12 hours (or whatever) on Sunday, he preached from after sunset to midnight on Saturday.
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Did Jesus give up Saturday for us?\nJesus? Christianity? .\n\nYour opinions only, no parroting or C&P from a Bible.\n\n\nIf Jesus died, he could NOT have been God.\nGods do not die? Do they?\n\nIf Jesus 'died' on Friday and 'undied' on Sunday, what else besides Saturday was sacrificed? \n\nIf Jesus died for our sins, he should be dead,dead, dead!
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In the Old Testament God gave the Hebrews the Sabbath as a day of rest.  Jesus honored the Sabbath, but disagreed with the definition of work.  Early Christians chose Sunday as their day for worship and rest.  The day itself is not holy, the worship is.
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I don't know the answer off-hand.  I'll be tuning in to see.  ;)\n\nI have added this edit to my question which you answered:\n\nFeb 27, 2006 at 10:12 pm\nBill, John 19:31 says, "Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath." Ok, so John is saying that the 14th of Nissan (the Day of Preparation) was on Friday that year. So the next day of course would have been Sabbath, as well as 15th of Nissan, the day of the Seder, so yes, a great sabbath. \n\nBut this in no way answers my question. Because if we are to believe John, then the 14th of Nissan that year occurred on a Friday. Therefore, the 15th would have begun Friday evening, there would have been a Passover Seder that evening, and according to Mark, Jesus ate that Passover Seder, then was not crucified until the Next Day, which according to John, then would have been on a Saturday!
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Original Jewish Sabath is sun down on Friday and ended sun down on Saturday.  \n\nIn the Bible, New Testament, the church switched it to Sunday instead of Saturday.
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Jesus proclaimed to be God, hence the crucifixtion. All of the early church leaders thought Jesus was God. Even in the second century there is reports by a Roman oficial of Christians singing praises to Jesus as a God. If you don't believe me check it out for yourself, I did.
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The day our Savior was hung on the cross.\nThe good done that day will never be equaled.\nNo other day in the history of man has such a selfless deed been done for so undeserving a people?
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Friday the 13th was the day that the Knights of the Templar where killed.  There is a whole story about how the King sent out a missive to be opened at a certain time by his commanders and it was to capture and kill any knights.
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Isn't there some debate about the calendar system or something?  I'm not entirely clear on this, but I seem to recall several people arguing over what year it really is now, because of the calendar system in effect way back then.\n\nThe only reason I mention this is that someone said Jesus rose on a Sunday, so the sabbath is now Sunday for all Christians.  If the calendar system was different back then from what it is now, how do we know that it was Sunday and not Wednesday or any of the other days of the week?
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Originally saturday was the sabbath and the holy day.  After the resurrection of Christ early Christians changed the holy day to sunday to show respect for Christs resurrection.  Jews not accepting Christ continued to worship on saturday and still do now.  In the 19th century some Christian groups, including the Seventh-day adventists led by Ellen White, went back to the old day of Saturday.  As far as which is correct and what the only one God thinks you have to ask which church you adhere too.  In the Old Testament Saturday was the day but the New testament does not addressthis issue after Christ and it is more an issue of tradition than literal biblical interpretation as far as I know.
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It didn't change. The Sabbath is still from the evening on Friday to the evening on Saturday. Christians chose to observe the Sabbath on the first day of the week in conjunction with the day of the Resurrection I hear, but I've never seen that in scripture. What I see in scripture is that when Christ was crucified, the Mosiac Law was crucified with Him. As He is seated at the right hand of the Father, making intercession, we can come before the Throne of Grace anytime we need to. We don't need to go to the synagogue on any certain day, but I think it is important to remember what the Sabbath means: the day of Rest after six of work. And worship should be somthing we do often, not just on Sunday.\n\nBy the way, I am a non-Jewish Christian. I attend church usually on Sunday.
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Hi creeklops,\n\nThe word Wednesday is not found in the Bible, days were called acording to the creation order except for Saturday (Sabbath).\n\nSo Sunday being the first day of the week, therefore making Wednesday the 4th day of the week.\n\nCaholics refer to a certain Wednesday of the week during passover "ash Wednesday", which is not found in the Bible either.\n\nHope this helps.
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Sunday isn't exactly a holiday, it is just a day that we set aside for God.\n\nIt started in the New Testament, in Acts to be precise, when the disciples and early Christians met together on the first day of the week to pray and remember what the Lord did.\n\nIt also has a little to do with the fourth commandment (remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy). This commandment was given to Jews but we remember Sunday for the same reason as they remember the Sabbath...namely, to keep it holy. It is the day on which Jesus rose from the grave and, as that is the foundation of Christianity, it is important to us.\n\nI hope that helped.
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No, it was not.  That observation comes from a lazy and superficial reading of the Scriptures.  It is a false assumption that Jesus was killed and buried on a Friday!  And trying to squeeze three days and nights out of two is man's vane attempt to rectify his error with the Bible facts.  A concise, biblical proof of Jesus' death, burrial and resurrection follows:\n\n1st -- Not all Sabbaths are on the 7th day of the week. So many people (even theologians) have assumed that the Sabbath that Jesus was buried before was the weekly (7th day) Sabbath.\n\nBut God also made 7 annual Holy Days that are called Sabbaths.  These Sabbaths can occure on other days of the week.  In John, the Sabbath in question is called a "High Day", that is, it is one of these annual Holy Days. Specifically, it is the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread (called Passover -- actually, the day after Passover) (Leviticus 23:6).\n\nThis is confirmed by the following:\n\nA. Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus (John 19:39) "Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen cloths with the spices..." (John 19:40, Matt 27:59), "and laid it in his [Joseph's] own new tomb" (Matt 27:60, Mark 15:46, Luke 23:53, John 19:39-42).\n\nB. "And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on" (Luke 23:54, John 19:42).\n\nC. "And the women also, which came with Him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre and how his body was laid" (Luke 23:55, Matt 27:61, Mark 15:47).\n\nD. "AND WHEN THE SABBATH WAS PAST, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Solome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him" (Mark 16:1).\n\nE. Then "they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; AND RESTED ON THE SABBATH DAY according to the commandment" (Luke 23:56).\n\nNote: The buying and preparing of the spices and oils by the women occurred BETWEEN TWO SABBATHS. Therefore, these two Sabbaths could not have been concurrent, as is popularly believed. And, as John 19:31 explains, the first Sabbath, the one immediately after Jesus' death, was a High Day, that is, an annual Holy Day, the First Day of Unleavened Bread, not the weekly Sabbath.\n\n"But late in the week, at the dawning into the first day of the week {that is, just after sunset on Saturday}, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.  And the angel answered and said to the women, Do not fear, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified.  He is not here, for He has risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay."  (Matthew 28:1, MKJV, also Mark 16:1-6, Luke 24:1-6)\n\nSo, Jesus was already risen before the first day of the week ever began.\n\nAs for the counting of the three FULL days and three FULL nights, we have:\n\nNight 1: Wednesday/Thursday night {Note: This was a Holy Day/Sabbath that year}\nDay 1: Thursday\n\nNight 2: Thursday/Friday night\nDay 2: Friday {Women bought and prepared spices & oils on this day}\n\nNight 3: Friday/Saturday {Beginning of normal, weekly Sabbath}\nDay 3: Saturday\n\nJesus rose at about the time of day he was buried, just before sunset on the weekly Sabbath!  Not on Sunday; and nowhere near dawn.
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Which day is the Sabbath? Is it Saturday? On which day should a Christian worship? I believe it is Sunday. The Saturday Sabbath was given to Israel. Ezekiel 20:12,20 states: I gave them [Israel] my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD and also hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you [Israel]. This was the first covenant to Israel.\n\nChristians have a new covenant. Jesus made a surety of a better testament (Hebrews 7:22). He [Christ] is the mediator of a better covenant (Hebrews 8:6). He [Christ] is the mediator of the new testament [or new agreement] (Hebrews 9:15).\n\nBecause of His death and this new agreement, we are no longer under ceremonial laws involving days. Moral laws are in effect in believer's hearts, but not the ceremonial laws. Proof? God says in Colossians 2:14,16 that Christ [blotted] out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross.... Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy- day, or of the new moon, or [Get it!] of the sabbath days.\n\nWe are not under the law, but under grace (Romans 6:14). God's moral law is written within and upon the hearts of believers, but ceremonial laws involving days have been nailed to the cross. We honor the Saviour of the new covenant on a new day -- the day of His resurrection, which is Sunday, the first day of the week. This we do out of love, not servitude, not through law, but through grace.
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I was taught in Catholic school that Jesus hung on the cross from 12 noon until 3 PM, when he died.  Personally, I don't see how anyone would know that unless it's recorded in history somewhere....
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Western Christianity\nIn Western Christianity, Easter marks the end of the forty days of Lent, a period of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter which begins on Ash Wednesday and ends at Easter Sunday.\n\nThe week before Easter is very special in the Christian tradition: the Sunday before is Palm Sunday, and the last three days before Easter are Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday (sometimes referred to as Silent Saturday). Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday respectively commemorate Jesus' entry in Jerusalem, the Last Supper and the Crucifixion. Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday are sometimes referred to as the Easter Triduum (Latin for "Three Days"). In some countries, Easter lasts two days, with the second called "Easter Monday". Many churches start celebrating Easter late in the evening of Holy Saturday at a service called the Easter Vigil.\n\nEastertide, the season of Easter, begins on Easter Sunday and lasts until the day of Pentecost, seven weeks later.\n\n\nEastern Christianity\nIn Eastern Christianity, preparations begin with Great Lent. Following the fifth Sunday of Great Lent is Palm Week, which ends with Lazarus Saturday. Lazarus Saturday officially brings Great Lent to a close, although the fast continues for the following week. After Lazarus Saturday comes Palm Sunday, Holy Week, and finally Easter itself, or Pascha (Πάσχα), and the fast is broken immediately after the Divine Liturgy. Easter is immediately followed by Bright Week, during which there is no fasting, even on Wednesday and Friday.\n\nThe Paschal Divine Liturgy generally takes place around midnight, into the early morning of Pascha. Placing the Paschal Divine Liturgy at midnight guarantees that no Divine Liturgy will come earlier in the morning, ensuring its place as the pre-eminent "Feast of Feasts" in the liturgical year.