When Did Jesus Rise ?

[veryberry]

Mat 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.
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
Luke 24:1 - Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.
John 20:1 - The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.

Sunday is the first day... Sometime around dark thirty in the morning

 

[Deborah13]

What? It's only New Year's Eve and we're already debating the timing of Easter? I didn't expect that for a couple of months yet, but okay...

Besides the problem with counting 3 days and 3 nights, there is at least one other problem I know of with a Sunday morning resurrection. All the annual festivals described in the books of Moses point to Christ in some way. Passover points to his crucifixion, and the Feast of First Fruits points to his resurrection. The Feast of First Fruits was on the day after the weekly Sabbath during the Days of Unleavened Bread. Just before the end of the Sabbath, the priests would go into a nearby barley field and wait for the sun to set. Once they had confirmed that the sun was set and the Sabbath had ended, they would harvest one sheaf of barley and take it back to the temple. The following morning they would thresh and winnow it and bake two loaves of bread from it, which they would offer as a wave offering.

I believe Jesus rose at the same time the priests were harvesting the barley. The following morning, he told Mary "Do not thou touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father" (John 20:17). The reason he said this was that the time for offering the wave offering had not yet come. He would have gone to his Father to present himself as the First Fruits offering at the same time that offering was being made in the Temple, a few hours after he spoke to Mary. If Jesus rose early on Sunday morning, none of this could fit.

The TOG​

Let me see if I am understanding you, please.
They would harvest the barley after sunset, which would be the beginning of the Jewish Sunday, the first day of the week? Then in the morning they would offer the wave offering, this day still being the Jewish Sunday, the first day of the week?

 

[TOG]

Let me see if I am understanding you, please.
They would harvest the barley after sunset, which would be the beginning of the Jewish Sunday, the first day of the week? Then in the morning they would offer the wave offering, this day still being the Jewish Sunday, the first day of the week?

Yes. That's the way I heard it explained. The Sabbath ends at sunset on Saturday, and the first day of the week (they didn't call it Sunday) begins. Since work is not allowed on the Sabbath, that was the first opportunity to harvest. They would then bake and offer the bread on the following morning, which was the morning of the first day of the week. At some point, the grain had to be threshed and winnowed, but I'm not sure exactly when they did that, whether it was in the evening or the following morning.

The TOG​

 

[Deborah13]

Yes. That's the way I heard it explained. The Sabbath ends at sunset on Saturday, and the first day of the week (they didn't call it Sunday) begins. Since work is not allowed on the Sabbath, that was the first opportunity to harvest. They would then bake and offer the bread on the following morning, which was the morning of the first day of the week. At some point, the grain had to be threshed and winnowed, but I'm not sure exactly when they did that, whether it was in the evening or the following morning.

The TOG​

I did find this one scripture about it....Of coarse this doesn't mean this it how it was done for the wave offering, but I found it interesting.

Rth_3:2 And now is not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley to night in the threshingfloor.