Nisan 14 Day of preparation

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And at 3 in the

afternoon… with a loud cry, Jesus breathed His last…..

The Death of Jesus

33 At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. 34 And at three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).[a]

35 When some of those standing near heard this, they said, “Listen, he’s calling Elijah.”

36 Someone ran, filled a sponge with wine vinegar, put it on a staff, and offered it to Jesus to drink. “Now leave him alone. Let’s see if Elijah comes to take him down,” he said.

37 With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last.

38 The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. 39 And when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, saw how he died,[b] he said, “Surely this man was the Son of God!”

Footnotes:

Mark 15:34 Psalm 22:1

Mark 15:39 Some manuscripts saw that he died with such a cry

Burial was done before the 15th began. (shown by red line)

31 Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down.

32 The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other.

33 But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.

34 Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus’ side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water.

35 The man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe.

36 These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken,”[a]

37 and, as another scripture says, “They will look on the one they have pierced.”[b]

Footnotes:

John 19:36 Exodus 12:46; Num. 9:12; Psalm 34:20

John 19:37 Zech. 12:10

The Burial of Jesus

38 Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jewish leaders. With Pilate’s permission, he came and took the body away.

39 He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.[a]

40 Taking Jesus’ body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs.

41 At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.

42 Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.

Footnotes:

John 19:39 Or about 34 kilograms

The women followed all the way, Via Dolorosa,Golgotha and burial site.

Nisan 15 Sabbath

The women observed the sabbath rest.

The next day of the Preparation Day, chief priests and the Pharisees entreated Pilate to seal the stone of the tomb and to post the guard until the 3rd day. So they were

permitted to make secure and to guard the tomb as they knew how.:

The Guard at the Tomb

62 The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate.

63 “Sir,” they said, “we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’

64 So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come and steal the body and tell the people that he has been raised from the dead. This last deception will be worse than the first.”

65 “Take a guard,” Pilate answered. “Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how.”

66 So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.

1 The chief priests and their peers violated the Sabbath but

    the women kept the Sabbath rest.

2 To make secure the tomb was a convert operation, no announcement, only Pilate,

    his guards and chief priests with their peers knew.

3 They set an UPPER TIME LIMIT to Jesus’ resurrection: only if Jesus’ body was still in the tomb

    after the 3rd day, Nisan 17, it was surely evident that Jesus was a deceiver.