The Jews and the Christians
I always find it interesting around this time of year as Easter draw nigh. Last year Kathryn and I wanted to celebrate passover. I grew up quasi-jewish–keeping all of the dietary laws and keeping all of the holy days.
Last year when we tried to celebrate passover but found out that passover was a month after easter. I was so very puzzled as to how Christians and Jews determine one their most holy days.
This year though passover happened to fall exactly perfectly with Easter.
The passover occurring on Wednesday evening. With Christ being taken into Roman custody wednesday night. Jesus was therefore crucified on thursday, as he would have had to be taken down before the first day of a Holy Week called the Days of Unleavened Bread. Since this "Sabbath" day is Friday and in Jewish tradition begins at Sunset. This Holy Day would have begun thursday sunset and lasted until friday sunset.
Therefore Jesus would have been placed in the tomb on thursday before sunset. The Jews would have celebrated the first day of unleavened bread that evening.
This is Mathew 12:39 Then some of the experts in the law55 along with some Pharisees56 answered him,57 “Teacher, we want to see a sign58 from you.” 12:39 But he answered them,59 “An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 12:40 For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish60 for three days and three nights,61 so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.
Therefore Jesus was in the belly of the earth from thursday sunset, to friday sunset, to saturday sunset, and rose on the third day Sunday.
For Jewish Christians there is no question as to the timeline of these events....though I have always wondered why Christians have never questioned the timeline of Good Friday and Easter.
I am interested to know what thoughts you might have.
These thoughts have been made while imbibing grapefruit juice and some wonderful blueberry muffins made from Kathryn's hand.
Last year when we tried to celebrate passover but found out that passover was a month after easter. I was so very puzzled as to how Christians and Jews determine one their most holy days.
This year though passover happened to fall exactly perfectly with Easter.
The passover occurring on Wednesday evening. With Christ being taken into Roman custody wednesday night. Jesus was therefore crucified on thursday, as he would have had to be taken down before the first day of a Holy Week called the Days of Unleavened Bread. Since this "Sabbath" day is Friday and in Jewish tradition begins at Sunset. This Holy Day would have begun thursday sunset and lasted until friday sunset.
Therefore Jesus would have been placed in the tomb on thursday before sunset. The Jews would have celebrated the first day of unleavened bread that evening.
This is Mathew 12:39 Then some of the experts in the law55 along with some Pharisees56 answered him,57 “Teacher, we want to see a sign58 from you.” 12:39 But he answered them,59 “An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 12:40 For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish60 for three days and three nights,61 so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.
Therefore Jesus was in the belly of the earth from thursday sunset, to friday sunset, to saturday sunset, and rose on the third day Sunday.
For Jewish Christians there is no question as to the timeline of these events....though I have always wondered why Christians have never questioned the timeline of Good Friday and Easter.
I am interested to know what thoughts you might have.
These thoughts have been made while imbibing grapefruit juice and some wonderful blueberry muffins made from Kathryn's hand.
posted by Jonathan Myers at 1:14 PM
3 Comments:
only you would use the word imbibe! heh, well since I was invited to a passover dinner tonight but was unable to attend, I think I would have thoroughly enjoyed it. Considering Easter has been so far glamorized by popular culture I think that celebrating passover instead would be something good to do. The other reason I think celebrating passover instead is because we are grafted into the tree, the gentiles are not the original tree and in that knowing and celebrating jewish christian tradition might bring more clarity to where our heritage is in Christ. Maybe we should celebrate pentacost? :)
which pentacost? The one the jews celebrate? Or the spirit coming?
Which begs the question, isnt the spirit of God descending on the earth just as important as Jesus coming–if we truly belief that the HS is part of the trinity?
hmmmm
I was referring to the spirit coming. And yet it is just as important, except like Jesus' coming, there are references to the Holy Spirit in the old testament. David often wrote of the Holy Spirit in his Psalms, suggesting that the Spirit was with him, not just a new testament idea. Likewise "Jesus" persona is said to have walked in the garden, walked with Abram. etc...
But yes I'd say they are equally important.
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