The Day Jesus Christ Died

The Day Jesus Christ Died For people to say that Jesus died on Good Friday and arose on Easter Sunday morning is not only doing great damage to the integrity of God’s Word, but is also causing many people to question the simple logic of Bible believers who propound such teaching. Jesus Christ explicitly declared in Matthew that He would be in the grave three days and three nights. 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. Matthew 12:40 in twice specifying three days and three nights distinctly denotes three periods of twenty-four hours each. How can a person calculate three days and three nights from Good Friday 3:00 P.M. until Easter Sunday Morning? The Bible declares that Jesus Christ was already risen by Easter Sunday morning which would be the third day; but even so, where is the third night? This teaching does not fit. What are we going to do? We have to go to the Word of God to find the day, the hour and the details involved in Jesus’ crucifixion, burial and resurrection in order to have the Word of God rightly divided. When the Word of God fits, there are no contradictions, no errors. I Corinthians 5:7 says, “. . .Christ our passover is sacrificed for us.” Jesus Christ in fulfilling the law had to carry out exactly the demands thereof. One important part of the law was the observance of the Passover which was first established as Moses and Aaron prepared to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt. Exodus 12:1-6: And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month [Abib or Nisan] of the year to you.* Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him