The 6th and 7th Days (Friday and Saturday) of the Final Week Passover (the Special High Sabbath) and the Sabbath Day From Matt 27:62-66, 28:2-4 and Luke 23:56 The next afternoon, when the Passover celebration was coming to an end and the regular Sabbath Day was about to start, the Jewish religious leaders went to see Pilate. “Sir,” they said when he came out to where they were waiting, “We remember that while that deceiver was still alive, he said, ‘After three days I will be raised up.’ We would like you to secure the tomb he has been buried in so his disciples don’t come and steal his body then tell everyone that he has risen from the dead. If that happens we will be worse off than we were before.” Then Pilate replied, “Take guards and make it as secure as you can.” So they sealed the tomb and posted guards to protect it. That is how things stayed, at least by outward appearances until sometime in the early morning hours on Sunday morning. That was when a great earthquake took place and an angel of the Lord came down from heaven, rolled the stone away from the entrance of the tomb, and sat down on it. His face was as bright as lightening and his clothes as white as newly fallen snow. When the guards saw this, they began to tremble with fear and suddenly fell over in a dead faint. |
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