3rd day

 

Some believe the resurrection was on Wednesday or Thursday.

The main support is Matthew 12:40 saying “3 days and 3 nights.”

Mat 27:3 says “after three days” he would rise (they secure the grave for 3 days not 4). This view, Wednesday, puts the resurrection on Saturday,  after 72 hours in the grave, being Thurs, Fri, and Sat.

Jesus said he would rise on the third day.

Lk 9:22; 13:32-33 (notice the inclusive language of today, tomorrow, and third day), 18:33.

Luke 24 is especially a problem, since it is clearly Sunday, and it is said to be the third day. Luke 24:1, 6-7, 18-21: third day since “these things.”

So you have a resurrection on the third day, Sunday, yet a reference to 3 days and nights.

There is the Old Testament account of Joseph putting his brothers in prison for 3 days, and bringing them out of prison on the third day:  "¹⁷ So he put them all together in prison three days.

¹⁸ Then Joseph said to them the third day," Genesis 42:17-18.   It says they were in prison 3 days, yet he brought them out on the third day.

If you take a Wednesday view, why did they wait till Sunday to go to the tomb?   Why didn't they go Friday, if Thursday was a sabbath day for Passover week?  Some say they used Friday to prepare spices, but we are told that the women did that on the same day Jesus was crucified:  ⁵⁵ "And the women who had come with Him from Galilee followed after, and they observed the tomb and how His body was laid. ⁵⁶ Then they returned and prepared spices and fragrant oils. And they rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment." Luke 23:55-56