Craig, Your illustration proves too much for your position. For if there were a literal 72 hours (3 days) from Wed. Eve to Sat. Eve. then Jesus would have had to rise on Sat. before Sundown according to your logic (i.e.> the time all the way up to just before the beginning of the FOURTH day! ) Saturday was the third day and Sunday was the 4th day. After Sundown on Sat. the 73 hour began and so did the 4th day approaching the fifth. So then you would be saying that Jesus was in the tomb more than 3 days and 3 nights and so since it is more than that time frame your text would still appear to be inaccurate. Peace, Steve Craig Ledbetter wrote: > All of this is just TOO FUNNY! > > David Powell, for someone whose arm really hurts, you do FAR too much > typing and rambling! > > > > Now, for the BIBLE’S account of how to reckon the meaning of “three > days”, go and compare two simple Scriptures and apply the resulting > principle to the 3 days and 3 nights dilemma that some of you are > encountering: > > > > See, 1 Kings 18:1 and James 5:17 > > > > 1Kgs 18:1 ¶ And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the > LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto > Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth. > > > > Ok, note the words, “IN THE THIRD YEAR” > > Alright, let’s look at James 5:17: > > > > James 5:17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he > prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth > by the space of three years and six months. > > > > Hmmmm. Evidently, God thinks that IN THE THIRD YEAR means anything > between the beginning of the third year, and the end of the third year. > So, when God recorded Elijah going to meet Ahab “in the third year”, God > thought it included actually 3 and a HALF years. > > > > Applied to the three days and three nights Scripture (Mt 12:40), when > compared with other Scriptures that say, “IN three days…”, etc., > evidently, according to the way GOD seems to see time, three days and > three nights can actually include the time all the way up to just before > the beginning of the FOURTH day! > > > > So, finally, Wednesday is the most logical day to begin our time > reckoning for the Crucifixion, with Thursday being the Passover (High > Sabbath), and VERY early on Sunday (sometime after Sunset on Saturday > night is the actual beginning of the First Day of the week in the Jewish > system) Jesus rising from the dead and leaving the tomb waiting for > someone to come looking for His dead body! > > > > Go figure! > > > > Craig Ledbetter > > www.biblebc.com <http://www.biblebc.com/> > >