What day did Christ rise?
Extra consideration, is also to be had about the following text,
"the Spices", when were they purchased?:
“And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.” Mark 16:1
For those which advocate a middle of the week [Wednesday, or Thursday], or elsewhere Crucifixion for Jesus, utilize this text along with the phrases “three days and three nights” [Jonah 1:17; Matthew 12:40] and “in the heart of the earth” [Matthew 12:40] in isolation, attempting to prove that Jesus needed to be in the grave for 72 hours [12 full hours for each day and night], some having Jesus raised the Seventh Day Sabbath, others on Sunday, others raised elsewhere, depending on their various respective views.
For these advocates of such eisigeted theologies/explanations, ask the question, how could those women, “ Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome”, all “had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him” since they were not allowed to do so during “seasonal” feast “sabbath” hours, nor during the 7th Day Sabbath hours?
Generally, the question is begged with
the apriori position that they could have had no time from the time Jesus was crucified and burial to do so.
However, let us see what we will of the Scriptures first in
all four Gospel accounts together [beginning with the “
Truly this was the Son of God” statement/event and continuing from there], before addressing this:
“Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.” Matthew 27:54
“And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God.” Mark 15:39
“Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.” Luke 23:47
“And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned.” Luke 23:48
“And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:” Matthew 27:55
“There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;” Mark 15:40
“And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.” Luke 23:49
“Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children.” Matthew 27:56
“(Who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered unto him: ) and many other women which came up with him unto Jerusalem.” Mark 15:41
“When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple:” Matthew 27:57
“And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,” Mark 15:42
“And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counsellor; and he was a good man, and a just:” Luke 23:50
“(The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them; ) he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.” Luke 23:51
“He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.” Matthew 27:58
“Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.” Mark 15:43
“And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead.” Mark 15:44
“And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph.” Mark 15:45
“This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.” Luke 23:52
“And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.” John 19:38
“And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,” Matthew 27:59
“And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.” Mark 15:46
“And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.” Luke 23:53
“And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound [weight].” John 19:39
“Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.” John 19:40
“And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.” Luke 23:54
“Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.” John 19:41
“There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation [day]; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.” John 19:42
“And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.” Matthew 27:60
“And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.” Matthew 27:61
“And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid.” Mark 15:47
“And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.” Luke 23:55
“And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.” Luke 23:56
“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.” Matthew 28:1
“And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.” Matthew 28:2
“And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.” Mark 16:1
“And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.” Mark 16:2
“And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?” Mark 16:3
“And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.” Mark 16:4
“Now upon the first [day] of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain [others] with them.” Luke 24:1
“And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.” Luke 24:2
“The first [day] of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.” John 20:1
Without resorting to various theories as held by others, what does the text plainly give to us?
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