The verse is::
Matthew 28: KJV
1 "In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre."
Sunday was Not a Sabbath.. Friday sundown to saturday sundown was the 7th day weekly Sabbath refered to in Matthew 28..
The High Sabbath that happened during the week just before the weekly Sabbath was the First day of unleavened Bread which happens the Day after the Passover.. So the High Sabbath of the first day of unleaven Bread started on Wednesday sundown and went to thursday Sundown.. They hurredly buried Jesus in the tomb to avoid His body hanging on the cross on the first day of unleavened bread..
Yes, the old era of sabbaths (the word is plural) It began the work of the ceremonial fast on the 6th day of the week allowing the born again Jews apart from their regular work needed to maintain their bodies a special time set aside to bring the gospel out to those who knew not God, as the true fast. .
This was prior to the new era of sabbath rests 1st. day.... the reformation had come. You could say, I believe the introduction of the children of light a sign to the whole world. A terrible time of tribulation for the outward Jew that was hoping his flesh could profit for something. I time like never before or ever again .
The word sabbath first and foremost is
not a time sensitive word. It means rest. Using the word "week" (no Greek for week at that time )it is adding or introducing another meaning... destroying the use of the word. The Greek word for week is evdomáda .
Two reasons why not to attach time sensitivity.. . One the weekly sabbath ceremonial law as a shadow is that men turned into idol worship as some sort of self serving sign that they called sign gifts. (Seeing is believing)
By changing it into a time sensitive word it would make Hebrew 4 reference without effect in respect to the word "today" (under the sun) Any time we do mix faith in what we hear or see and do not harden of hearts we are receiving the gospel of our faith as the end thereof , the salvation of our soul. It is God who does make our hearts soft by which he can rest in the Bosom of His love. If we make it all about what the eyes see we will miss the mark
I offer that looking at the first aspect of the three day demonstration, the unseen work of suffering as the father and the Son. The Father poured out the cup of wrath the suffering was unto death as he gave his spirit life in jeopardy of his own Spirit. That work describes the metptphor to drink the blood. The father in mutual submission with the Son to bring us the peace of God that does surpass our ability to understand . This was on Thursday. The next part of the 3 day demonstration of the work of the Holy Spirit not seen was on the cross and last of the three part demonstration, the tomb.
I am not saying one demonstration cannot be used in different ways .The way of the cross is most likely the greatest as to how many times But they all work to represent one three day demonstration .Or at least that is what I would believe. Three seems to represent the end of a matter in any parable, as one that comes along side another, the sign of Jonas as a living sacrifice..
From my experience the cross is usually used as the beginning point and it makes it difficult to fulfill the three day demonstration. Beginning with the demonstration in the garden of Gethsemane would change that point .
For what purpose? Possible to re-introduce the garden of Eden episode. This time the bride is protected by a husband who was willing to give the life of his Spirit in jeopardy of His own Spirit.
I would offer the garden episode as the beginning. A work of the father and Son . Putting the disciples asleep to signify it was a exclusive work of the father and Son working together in mutual submission in order to establish the government of God.
Then come with them doth Jesus to a place called
Gethsemane, and he saith to the disciples, `Sit ye here, till having gone away, I shall pray yonder.' And having taken Peter, and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful, and to be very heavy;then saith he to them,
`Exceedingly sorrowful is my soul -- unto death; abide ye here, and watch with me.' And having gone forward a little, he fell on his face, praying, and saying,
`My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou.' And he cometh unto the disciples, and
findeth them sleeping, and he saith to Peter, `So! ye were not able one hour to watch with me! watch, and pray, that ye may not enter into temptation: the spirit indeed is forward, but the flesh weak.' Again, a
second time, having gone away, he prayed, saying,
`My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from me except I drink it, Thy will be done;'and having come, he
findeth them again sleeping, for their eyes were heavy. And having left them, having gone away again, he prayed a
third time, saying the
same word; then cometh he unto his disciples, and saith to them, `Sleep on henceforth, and rest! lo, the hour hath come nigh, and
the Son of Man is delivered up to the hands of sinners.Mathew 26:36-45
You could say
delivered up in preparation for the next phase. The cross.
Gethsemane, an apropriate name (oil press) looked at from the parables found in Luke. The Holy Spirit uses literal "as it were" blood to demonstrate work of the Spirit of Christ working in the Son of man, Jesus. "As it were" denotes a parable is in view.
Using sweat like Jesus used with spit..rain , dew as living water(H20) to represent the cleaning work of the Holy Spirit..
The father in mutual submission strengthened jesus to finish the work .Just as hie strenthedned Jonas to finish that three day work
And there appeared to him a messenger from heaven
strengthening him;and having been in agony, he was more earnestly praying, and his sweat became, "as it were", great drops of blood falling upon the ground. And having risen up from the prayer, having come unto the disciples, he found them sleeping from the sorrow,
Luke 22:43-45 Young's Literal Translation (YLT)