Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!sun-barr!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: James.Quilty@comp.vuw.ac.nz (James William Quilty) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Day Jesus Christ Died (was Re: the Sabbath) Message-ID: Date: 26 May 91 05:58:32 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Computer Science, Victoria University, Wellington, NewZealand Lines: 60 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , edc!fraser@uunet.uu.net (Fraser Orr) writes: > Now every scripture fits together, and we have the rightly divided word > and we stand approved before God (2Tim 2:15). I might, others might, but at the moment, you seem to have ignored the rest of the Bible while concentrating on your interesting little diversion :-) Consider: Matthew 26:18 KJV: " And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my diciples." And, if you read on, in Matthew 26 till the crucifiction, Mark 14 till the crucifiction, Luke 22 till the crucifiction (particularly verse 7: TEV: " The day came during the festival of Unleavened Bread when the lambs for the Pasover meal were to be killed [14 Nissan, by my concordance ! - Jim]." KJV: " Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed." NIV: " Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the passover lamb had to be sacrificed." ) You'll see that is just what he did ! John is not as clear as the others on the passover matter, but certainly, the passover (14 Nissan) was held and celebrated by Jesus BEFORE his crucifiction - remember, the last supper ? My concordance states: "The Passover lamb was slain at sunset closing the fourteenth day of the month Abib (or, as it was afterwards called, Nisan), ..." You state that Matthew 26:19 says that Jesus was "going to" the passover feast - On the contrary, he was already there (having made the triuphant entry into Jerusalem on the back of a colt) and was only making the final preparations ! (see verse 18 !) Your assertion is inconsistent with the Bible ! (I thought you'd like to know :-) > When we realise that Christ was crucified on Wednesday, and raised Saturday, > we no longer have to give embarrassing excuses to people on how to get three > days and three nights from Friday to Sunday, and can instead proclaim the great > meaning of the death and resurrection of the Lord, the salvation of all > mankind. I can't subscribe to your calculations, they are inaccurate ! This means that I don't 'realise' that Jesus was crucified on a Wednesday, not at all ! You will note in the verses that surround the references above, mention is made of preparation for the Passover (Festival of Unleavened Bread). So the preparation you refer to as 'clear' is not really that clear at all ! I don't have to give embarrasing excuses, ever ! The salvation of all is by faith, not sabbaths ! see my other postings ! Jim.