Reply #32: "Good Friday" was a mistake. [View All]

[tjdee]

People assumed that the "Sabbath" talked about was regular Saturday Jewish Sabbath. on edit: And I assume Good Friday ("God's Friday"), like Lent, came from the Catholic Church, which is tradition based as well as scripturally based.

However, John 19:31 specifies that the Sabbath involved was a high day/special Sabbath, due to the Passover. If I recall correctly, the "Last Supper" was the Passover Seder.

He was crucified on Passover (Wednesday?), and the women (?) asked he be brought down because they couldn't attend him on the Sabbath (the special sabbath, I think it has to do with the feast of unleavened bread as well?). I won't bore you with the scriptural references.

This makes a lot of sense if you get into the symbolism of Passover, and Jesus being a symbolic lamb....

He rose on "Easter" late Saturday/early Sunday morning, because when the women went to see him, he wasn't there.

(also, the days of the week are obviously in question. I was assuming Easter "Sunday".)