2699.-After Three Days

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 13, 1909

2699.—After Three Days.

Will you please harmonize for me, Matt. 20:17-20; Mark 10:33, 35, with Matt. 12:38-41, and Mark 8:34?

B. B. No. 745.

There is no inharmony in these scriptures if we will simply understand this, that "after three days," and "in three days," and "three days and three nights," are all expressions employed in a general way just as such expressions are to-day. It does not mean just seventy-two hours or just so many hours a day and a night. The term "day and night" was an expression used by the Jews simply for a day, and "a day and a night" meant what would be called a day, altho it might lack several hours of being a day. Again, "three days and three nights in the heart of the earth" may not mean in the grave, but in the power of Rome who then ruled the earth. If we will look at some of these simple things, it will help us quite materially to understand the Scriptures and this text in particular. The two men who went down to Emmaus and who met Jesus there, told Him, according to the 24th chapter of Luke, at the very close of the first day, that it was the third day since those things were done. The third day, including the three days which include His sufferings and betrayal as well as His crucifixion.