The crucifixion of Jesus Christ was it on a Friday?

The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ was it on a Friday

Good Friday, the Friday before Easter Sunday is celebrated worldwide among Christians as the anniversary of Christ’s death on the cross. This day was set apart as a holy day as long ago as the 300’s, in the time of Constantine. But the big question is: Was Christ truly crucified on a Friday and resurrected on a Sunday? This should not be taken lightly, because if we desire to worship and serve the Lord, we are to do it in truth, for the time has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks to worship Him.

Jesus Christ in predicting His death said to His disciples; “We are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled. He will be turned over to the Gentiles. They will mock Him, insult Him, spit on Him, flog Him and kill Him, and on the third day He will rise again” (Luke 18: 31-34).

So the big question is, when Jesus Christ was crucified! Was it on a Friday as globally accepted and celebrated? Or was it as foreordained and prophesied by the archangel Gabriel in the seventy weeks prophecy to the prophet Daniel who said to him; “Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering” (Daniel 9:27).

So what day is the middle of the week when sacrifices and offerings came to an end was it on Wednesday or on Friday? How can the exact day be proven? Remember that, if we approve of the wrong doing of others even though we ourselves are not doing it we nevertheless will be guilty as those who do the wrong thing.

So let us with an open mind delve into this subject as to when was Jesus Christ the true Messiah was crucified buried in the heart of the earth and resurrected on the third day because this is the only sign that Jesus Christ gave to prove that He was indeed the Messiah as He unequivocally said to the Pharisees; “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it (His Messiahship) except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” (Matthew 12:39-40).

In the event that one does not know or not sure of the day on which Christ was crucified, I believe that knowing the day of His resurrection will help determine the day of His crucifixion and later placed in the heart of the earth, if we believe in the scriptures let us begin with the day of His resurrection. For it is written “On the first day of the week (Sunday), very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb, they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus, and while they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightening stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them; “Why do you look for living among the dead? He is not here; He has risen! Remember how He told you, while He was still with you in Galilee: ‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ Then they remembered His words” (Luke 24:1-3).

The apostle John wrote his account concerning the resurrection stating; “Early on the first day of the week, (Sunday)while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance" (John 20:1).

So the question is what time was Christ Resurrected? From all indications, Jesus Christ had already risen by the time the women went early to the tomb while it was still dark on the first day of the week, therefore, at what time was Jesus Christ resurrected?

If we believe the scriptures there will be no ambiguity as to when Jesus Christ was resurrected from the dead, for the scriptures confirms that, “After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it, His appearance was like lightening, and His clothes was white as snow. The guards were so afraid of Him that they shook and became like dead men. Then the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus who was crucified. He is not here: He has risen, just as He said. Come and see the place where He lay” (Matthew 28:1-6).

Mark’s account states it this way; “Now when He rose early on the first day of the week, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom He had cast seven demons.” The resurrection of Jesus Christ therefore was in the evening of the seventh day of the week, at the end of the Sabbath, precisely at the time He was placed in the tomb and definitely before dawn of the first day of the week,

 To be continued

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With brotherly love\

Lucius Joseph