Jesus actually died on a Thursday

Tomorrow being Good Friday I thought this would be a good time to post about this. Most Christians have grown up being taught/believing that Christ died on a Friday. Most of this due to the fact that Joseph of Aramathea asked to take down the body of Christ because the next day was the Sabbath, which is of course, Saturday.

A little backstory on the Passover holiday, the first day of Passover was always on the 15th of the Jewish month of Nisan, no matter what day of the week on which it fell. The day before is called the Day of Preparation. According to Exodus 12, the Jews were commanded to observe both the 1st and 7th day of Passover as a holy day of rest, these were special sabbaths called "high days". So the 15th of Nisan would be a sabbath day wherever it fell during the week.

The Gospel of Luke states Jesus was crucified on the Day of Preparation (Luke 23:53), the day before Passover. And John tells us that they asked for Jesus' body because the next day was not only a sabbath, but a high day (John 19:31).

Now this is where it gets interesting, at least to me. In our English translations of the Bible, Matthew 28:1 tells us that Mary Magdalene went to visit the tomb after the Sabbath, but in the Greek texts, it uses the plural of Sabbath, indicating that there were back to back Sabbaths.

A Thursday crucifixion also fits Jesus' prophecy of his Resurrection much better than a Friday one. Jesus said like Jonah was in the whale, so will the Son of Man stay three day and three nights in the earth. Now the Jewish way of keeping time was very inexact, where they would count any part of a day as we would a whole day, and you could argue that since he died on Friday and rose on Sunday, that he was in the grave for parts of three days, you can't get three nights out of it. But you can with a Thursday death.

There's more evidence for a Thursday burial, but this was the major stuff and all I have time for right now. Anyway, I hope you find this interesting.