JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED ON WEDNESDAY

JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED ON WEDNESDAY. This is evident in the scripture. The confusion is due to the fact that there are Sabbaths on the Jewish calendar other than the weekly Sabbath or Saturday. Keep in mind that the Jewish day begins at sundown and ends at sundown the next day.

The scripture says in Mark 15 and Luke 23 that the crucifixion took place before the Sabbath. Folks mistakenly think this was Friday. There are two kinds of Sabbaths. There is the seventh day Sabbath and the High Day Sabbaths.

In Leviticus 23, we have seven Sabbaths listed besides the weekly Sabbath. Leviticus Chapter 23--The Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a Sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation This was a yearly Sabbath. Leviticus 23:32. "And it shall be unto you a Sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even shall ye celebrate your Sabbath." This is the Sabbath of the Atonement. Leviticus Chapter 23:39 When ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days: on the first day shall be a Sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a Sabbath. In Leviticus 23 there are seven sabaaths. There is the Passover Sabbath in the first month, fourteenth day followed by the Unleavened Bread Sabbath fifteenth day. There is the First Fruits Sabbath on the first month, and the seventeenth day. There is a Pentecost Sabbath fifty days later. There is a Sabbath of the Trumpets in the seventh month, the Sabbath of Atonement in the seventh month, and also the Sabbath of the Feast of Tabernacles. The Sabbaths listed here are not the weekly Sabbaths.These seven are called high Sabbaths.

Jesus Died before sundown the time in which the PASSOVER SABBATH commenced. Remember the Jewish day begins at sundown. We know it was passover. Jesus ate the Passover before the crucifixtion with his disciples. John 19:14-- "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." ( A HIGH DAY SABBATH WAS NOT THE WEEKLY OR SATURDAY SABBATH). Jesus was crucified before sundown just before the PASSOVER SABBATH NOT THE WEEKLY SABBATH. Passover sabbath was the 14th day of the month. ALWAYS the day following the the Passover Sabbath was the Sabbath of unleavened bread the 15th day of the month. This lasted from sundown Thursday until sundown Friday.

So Jesus was crucifed on Wednesday before the passover Sabbath which lasted from Wendesday Sundown until Thursday sundown. Thursday Sundown began the Sabbath of unleavened bread; from Sundown Thursday until sundown Friday. The weekly Sabbath went from sundown Friday until Sundown Saturday. Jesus arose Early Sunday AM.

Matthew 28:1 ---In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. Sunday AM He arose. He was in the grave three FULL Jewish days an nights. Just as he said he would be----Pastor Rodney Houston