Was Jesus crucified on Friday or another day of the week. We have always been taught that Jesus was crucified on what has become to be known as Good Friday, but is that correct. Many people just repeat what they are taught without searching the scriptures themselves.
Some people say Jesus was crucified on Wednesday or Thursday. I believe the scriptures indicate Thursday was the correct day. Just about everyone agrees that Jesus rose from the grave on Sunday, today referred to as Resurrection Day or Easter. (Mark 16:9 ¶ Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.) Many other verses tell of the women and later Peter and John going to the tomb of Jesus on the first day of the week. We know the first day of the week is Sunday as the Jews sabbath day was Saturday which was the last day of the week.
(Matthew 12:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.)
Jesus said he would be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights. The Jews counted any part of a day as a full day, even if it was only an hour. Unlike our day and the Romans day which starts at midnight, the Jews day started at sunset or 6 pm. Even with the thinking of a partial day, you cannot get three days and three nights from Friday to Sunday morning. You would have Friday day, Friday night, Saturday day, Saturday night, and Sunday day for three days, but only two nights. Scripture tells us Jesus gave up the ghost at the ninth hour or 3 PM. (Mark 15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?) (Mark 15:37 And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.)
Jesus was our passover lamb. (I Corinthians 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:)
We know they sacrificed the Passover lamb on 14 Nissan. (II Chronicles 35:1 Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.) The first month on the Jewish religious calendar is Nissan.
If Jesus rose again three days later, that would be 17 Nissan. If 17 Nissan was a Sunday, then 14 Nissan was a Thursday. The Jews actually sacrificed the passover lamb on preparation day (John 19:14-15 14 And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King! 15 But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.), the same day the house was cleansed of all leaven (leaven represents sin). The actual passover was on 14 Nissan, with 15 Nisan being the first day of the feast of unleavened bread, and we know Saturday or 16 Nissan was the regular weekly sabbath. (Leviticus 23:5-8 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD’S passover.
6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.) Jesus presented himself as an offering for the feast of unleavened bread. The chief priests wanted to remove Jesus from the cross as quickly as possible and bury him since a high holy sabbath day was coming with passover at sunset and the weekly sabbath following after it. (John 19:31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. The regular weekly sabbath was never referred to as a high day, only feast days. No work was to be done on these days. This is why the women waited until Sunday to bring the spices for Jesus’s body since they could not do anything on the sabbath days. So if you have two days in between his death and his resurrection on Sunday, it makes Thursday his day of crucifixion.
(John 12:1 Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.)
Jesus was at the home of Lazarus on 9 Nissan, just before he entered Jerusalem on what we call Palm Sunday on 10 Nissan. Adding 6 days to 9 Nissan gives us 15 Nissan for the passover, which was on Friday. Mary anointed the feet of Jesus (John 12:3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.) to prepare Jesus for his upcoming death.
(Mark 15:25 And it was the third hour, and they crucified him.)
We know Jesus went to the cross at the third hour (9 am) and gave up the ghost at the ninth hour (3 pm). 9 am was the time the Jews brought their passover lamb to the temple to wait for it to be slaughtered and sacrificed at 3 pm. Jesus as our passover lamb also went to the cross at 9 am and was dead at 3 pm. His blood dripped onto the mercy seat of the ark of the covenant hidden under the cross found by Ron Wyatt a nurse and amateur archaeologist. The high priest used to place the blood of the sin offering on the mercy seat (Leviticus 16:15 ¶ Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:). Jesus as our High Priest (Hebrews 3:1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;) who was the ultimate sin offering to cover all sins for all mankind forever later placed his blood on the heavenly mercy seat, but only after leaving his blood on the earthly mercy seat in accordance with the law. (Hebrews 9:11-13 11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:) This was why Jesus told Mary Magdalene on that Sunday morning of his resurrection, not to touch him, since he had not ascended to his Father yet. Jesus had not placed his blood on the heavenly mercy seat yet and could not allow Mary Magdalene to touch him before he did or he would be polluted from her sin and could not have been our sinless and clean sacrifice. Ron Wyatt had the blood of Jesus tested by Jewish experts not telling them were it came from and they confirmed it had 24 chromosomes instead of the normal 46 chromosomes. Jesus received 23 from Mary and one Y chromosome from the Holy Ghost. 24 is the number for the priesthood as seen in the 24 courses of the priests. Jesus is our high priest. Many of the Jewish experts were later saved when they were told that blood was from their Jewish Messiah. Jesus blood had water added to it and was made alive again showing Jesus’s blood never died. Normal blood cannot be tested for DNA once dried out.
Jesus rose on 17 Nissan which was also the feast of the first fruits. Jesus was the first fruits of resurrection. (I Corinthians 15:20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.) (I Corinthians 15:23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.) The number 17 means victory (and also possibly security in the Lord) which all have if they choose Jesus as their Saviour and Jesus had victory over Satan and death with his resurrection. The feast of first fruits always was on the first day after the regular sabbath following passover which would have been Sunday when Jesus rose from the grave. (Leviticus 23:10-11 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:
11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.) Fifty days from the feast of first fruits was Pentecost, also known as the feast of weeks. This was when the Holy Ghost was given.
When Jesus entered Jerusalem on 10 Nissan or Palm Sunday, that was also the day the Jews selected their lamb to be killed for the passover. Jesus was presenting himself to the Jews as their passover lamb. 10 means law and Jesus obeyed and fulfilled all of the law to the letter. Jesus entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday on the exact day as Daniel had predicted over 500 years earlier, so the Jews were without excuse for not realizing that Jesus was their Messiah. Jesus would be cut off or crucified on the day scripture says. Sixty nine weeks of seven years, with each week representing seven years equals 483 years since the Persian king Cyrus allowed the people to return to Jerusalem and rebuild. (Daniel 9:25-26 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.) The last week of seven years is yet to come in the future tribulation.
Jesus died at 33. The number 33 means promise. If one has received Jesus as their personal Saviour and is saved, they have the promise of eternal life with Jesus.
The word blood is found 447 times in scripture and sin is found 448 times. The blood of Jesus covers all sin except the sin of the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost. (Matthew 12:31-32 31 ¶ Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
32 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.)
Jesus died on the 14th. 14 means deliverance. Jesus was delivered to the cross for our salvation. The number 15 means rest as the 15th was the passover and we can rest knowing that Jesus died for our sins and will save us if we call upon Jesus to save us.
As a side note, the Easter bunny and Easter eggs are both of heathen origin, most likely from Germany or the area around Northern Europe. The bunny and eggs are representative of the ancient fertility goddess as Satan has always been about sex and tries to bring it into all aspects of a Christian’s life. The bunny was chosen as she gives birth to lots of rabbits in the Spring around the time of Easter. The bunny is a very reproductive animal and the saying of someone with lots of children is she breeds like a rabbit. The coloring of the eggs was in honour of the heathen goddess. The Roman Catholic Church says the eggs represent the emergence of Jesus from the tomb and the resurrection of Jesus. Leave it to a cult to support a heathen tradition. Do not believe any of these lies. The Easter bunny and Easter eggs have nothing to do with Jesus or his resurrection and are only put there by Satan to support a heathen goddess and to corrupt the most holiest day for Christians, the resurrection of Jesus. Satan wants people to not think about Jesus, but rather a bunny and painting eggs and having an Easter egg hunt with gifts inside such as toys or candy. Why are Christian holidays always about the children and not about Jesus? No Christian should participate in any Easter egg hunts or allow their children to and they should have nothing to do with egg painting or the Easter bunny. Do not bring your children to see the Easter bunny and get a picture with him. Just as Satan has taken over Christmas with Santa, he has taken over Easter or Resurrection Day with the Easter bunny and painted eggs. Many churches even have Easter egg hunts though they try to justify it by saying they are Resurrection Day eggs or some other name and they say they have Bible verses inside them. Easter has become commercialized just like Christmas and the focus is placed on a bunny and eggs rather than Jesus. These churches do not help the situation. Tell the pastors of these churches to stop this nonsense. Christians stay away from both and lets return the day back to Jesus and his glorious resurrection. Easter is not about a bunny and eggs, it is about Jesus and his resurrection which without that we would still be dead in our sins, so let us put Jesus back in Easter.
For those who may be listening and are not saved, today is the day to call upon Jesus as your Saviour so that you too can celebrate the resurrection of Jesus and not the Easter bunny. Turn from your sin and pray and ask Jesus to save you. Do it now.
