If Christ was crucified on the sixth day, He was only in the tomb twenty-four hours, as He rose seventh-day evening. Matt. 28:1. A. J. F.
In the first place, parts of days are counted whole days, and the three days and three nights are reckoned from the time that Christ was apprehended by the officers, when Jesus said to them, "This is your hour, and the power of darkness." That included Thursday night, Friday, the Sabbath, and the night after the Sabbath, or what is really Sunday night, for in the Scripture the night precedes the day. It was not Sabbath evening when He arose. Read Matthew 27 with Matthew 28. There are no chapter divisions or even verse divisions in the original. "So they went and made the sepulcher sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch, 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 sepulcher." That is, the stone was sealed and a watch was set on the Sabbath day, but in the early morning they came, as recorded by Mark and Luke. This is altogether the most reasonable supposition in connection with these scriptures.
