Yeshua's Resurrection When?
Havienu L'Shalom - Hebrew Calendar
Hebrew Year 4030, Jewish Calendar Year 3790 years from Adam
Note 240 years removed from Jewish Calendar in 135 CE

The algorithms for hebcal ver. 3.10 were taken from Emacs 19's calendar routines
by Edward M. Reingold and Nachum Dershowitz. http://www.knowledgengineers.com/Havienu/html/vestibule/hebcalmonthview.html
Documentation and References at the end of this Article

April in the Year 30 AD
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
11 Nisan 3790	1 12 Nisan 3790	2 13 Nisan 3790	3 14 Nisan 3790 5:19 Ta'anit Bechorot CRUCIFIXION Erev Pesach	4 15 Nisan 3790 5:20 Pesach I	5 16 Nisan3790 5:21 Pesach II	6 17 Nisan 3790 Havdalah: 7:13 Pesach III RESURRECTION AT SUNSET, EXACTLY 72 HOURS LATER
7 18 Nisan 3790 Pesach IV FEAST OF FIRSTFRUITS	8 19 Nisan 3790 Pesach V	9 20 Nisan 3790 5:2 Pesach VI	10 21 Nisan 3790 5:24 Pesach VII	11 22 Nisan 3790 Havdalah: 7:17 Pesach VIII	12 23 Nisan 3790 5:25	13 24 Nisan 3790 Havdalah: 7:18 Shmini
14 25 Nisan 3790	15 26 Nisan 3790	16 27 Nisan 3790	17 28 Nisan 3790	18 29 Nisan 3790	19 30 Nisan 3790 Rosh Chodesh 6:30	20 1 Iyyar 3790 Rosh Chodesh Havdalah: 8:23 Tazria-Metzora
21 2 Iyyar 3790	22 3 Iyyar 3790	23 4 Iyyar 3790	24 5 Iyyar 3790	25 6 Iyyar 3790	26 7 Iyyar 3790 6:35	27 8 Iyyar 3790 Havdalah: 8:28
28 9 Iyyar 3790	29 10 Iyyar 3790	30 11 Iyyar 3790
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday

This calendar, for the month of April and/or Nisan (YEAR 30 A.D.), has Nisan 14 on Wednesday, APRIL 3RD. Here is what is amazing. Pontius Pilate wrote to the Roman Emperor, in an attempt to explain the reason for having Yeshua, Jesus, crucified. Pontius Pilate wrote the letter, and at the end of the letter, he dates the writing: "THE 5TH OF THE CALENDS OF APRIL." The word "calends" has reference to the first of a month, thus it appears to mean the 5th day of the beginning of April.

Since this letter is in the British Museum in London, it appears authentic. This means that whenever Nisan 14, the day of the crucifixion, was ------ it had to be BEFORE APRIL 5TH !!
This authenticates the year of 30 AD, when according to the above calendar, Nisan 14 was on APRIL 3 --- JUST TWO DAYS BEFORE THE LETTER WAS WRITTEN ON APRIL 5TH. That is the calendar shown above. It makes perfect sense that Pontius Pilate would, almost immediately, (2 days later), write the Emperor, explaining what he did, and try to explain why.

Crucifixion ................Resurrection
29AD	Nisan 14	Saturday	April 14	Nisan 17	Tuesday	April 17
30AD	Nisan 14	Wednesday	April 3	Nisan 17	Saturday	April 6
31AD	Nisan 14	Monday	March 24	Nisan 17	Thursday	March 27
32AD	Nisan 14	Monday	April 12	Nisan 17	Thursday	April 15
33AD	Nisan 14	Friday	April 1	Nisan 17	Monday	April 4

One of the most well known facts of history is the death, burial, and resurrection of Yeshua the Messiah, Jesus the Christ. Scholars have long argued the time frame between 29 AD and 33 AD as the time of the crucifixion and resurrection of the Messiah. It is one of the most well documented facts of history that He died on a Roman Cross, and in 3 days rose again from the dead. There has always been a cloud of uncertainty regarding the exact day and year. The fact of the resurrection of the Messiah gives a blessed hope to all mankind.

Computers are great tools for study, research, and calculations. Modern calendar computer programs, some of which were developed for the space program and astronomy, have allowed us to know the exact date for these most historic events.

We can now know that there is only one date that agrees with all the Gospel accounts. That date agrees with our modern Roman Gregorian calendar, Hebrew calendar, the modified Jewish calendar, and also the letter of Pontius Pilot, written on April 5, 30 AD.

The Messiah died on a Roman cross in Jerusalem on Nisan 14 at 3:00pm, on Wednesday, April 3, in 30AD. In 3 days and 3 nights, exactly 72 hours later, on the Sabbath at 3pm, Saturday, April 6, in 30 AD, Yeshua the Messiah rose from the dead. The Lord of the Sabbath, rose from the dead on the Sabbath, Nisan 17, on Saturday, April 6, 30 AD.

This is important because it proves that God never did change the 4th Commandment. It proves that the pope and others who honor Lucifer's sun god with their Sunday services should consider how their traditions have made the COMMAND of God, of no effect.

Mat 12:39-40 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Mark 16:2 And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.

When they got to the tomb before daylight Sunday, He was already risen. When did He rise? That depends upon when He was crucified and put into the tomb. When careful research and study is done one finds that Passover, or the day of preparation, the 14th of Nisan, when Messiah Yeshua, (Christ Jesus),was crucified was on Wednesday. He said "It is finished": and He bowed His head, and gave up the ghost, at about the 9th hour, or 3:00pm, Wednesday, Nisan 14, in 30 AD. The Perfect Passover Lamb of God, by His Precious Blood, totally defeated Satan, and Redeemed the fullness of the earth which He had created. Had the princes of this world known, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory.

Obviously, since He was in the earth 3 days and 3 nights, being crucified on Wednesday, it was Wednesday night, Thursday, Thursday night, Friday, Friday night, Saturday. He rose on Saturday, the Sabbath, The Lord's Day. Yes, Yeshua the Messiah, Jesus Christ, arose from the dead on Saturday, the Sabbath.

Let us take a look at the Passover, in which God instructs Moses, with this feast of the Lord, to teach how He would PassOver in judgment, those who were protected by the blood. Messiah is our Passover. On the 10th of Nisan a lamb was taken into the house to be observed for perfection till the evening of the day of preparation or Passover, which was always on the 14th of Nisan. The lamb was then killed in the evening, at 3:00pm, and the blood applied to the door of the house. It was that application of the blood of the lamb, (Messiah is our Passover, The Lamb of God), that would protect them from the judgment of death.

Exo 12:6 And ye shall keep it (the spotless lamb), up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. (Yeshua died in the 9th hour, or 3:00pm on Nisan 14)
Exo 12:7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.

During the feast of Unleavened bread the first day, Nisan 15 is a sabbath, (day of rest), and the Saturday during the feast of unleavened bread is a high sabbath.

Lev 23:6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
Lev 23:7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

Thursday, the day after Yeshua was crucified was Nisan 15, the first day of unleavened bread, and a sabbath, where no servile work could be done and that was the reason for the rushed burial in Joseph of Arimathaea's tomb. The rushed burial had to be completed before evening. The first day of unlevened bread, required sabbath rest. That Thursday Sabbath, of the first day of unleavened bread, began at sundown. Therefore we again see that Yeshua Messiah was in the tomb Wednesday night, Thursday, Thursday night, Friday, Friday night, and Saturday. When Mary went to the tomb as early as it was possible to do the work of applying the spices to the body of Yeshua, as soon as the Saturday Sabbath was over, before it was daylight on the first day of the week, she found the tomb empty and Yeshua already risen on Saturday, the Sabbath, The Lord's Day.

Mat 27:57 When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple:
Mat 27:58 He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.
Mat 27:59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
Mat 27:60 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.
Mat 27:61 And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.
Mat 27:62 Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,
Mat 27:63 Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
Mat 27:64 Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.
Mat 27:65 Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can.
Mat 27:66 So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
Mat 28:1 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.
Mat 28:2 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.
Mat 28:3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
Mat 28:4 And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
Mat 28:5 And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.
Mat 28:6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

Before dawn on Sunday, Yeshua had already risen. He rose on Saturday, having spent 3 days and 3 nights in the tomb. He rose on Saturday, the Sabbath, the Lord's Day.

Luke 23:50 And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counsellor; and he was a good man, and a just:
Luke 23:51 (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 23:52 This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.
Luke 23:53 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 23:54 And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.
Luke 23:55 And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.
Luke 23:56 And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
Luke 24:1 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 24:2 And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.
Luke 24:3 And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus.

When they arrived very early, before daylight on Sunday, they found that Yeshua had already risen.

And in John's gospel also we see that it was (Passover), the day of preparation for the feast of unleavened bread, when His body was placed in the tomb. It was a Sabbath as soon as it got dark that Wednesday when Yeshua Messiah was crucified on Nisan 14. By Hebrew reckoning the 15th day of Nisan would begin at dark and therefore the rushed burial as it was getting dark Wednesday. Yeshua's body lay in the tomb of Joseph, Wednesday Night, Thursday, Thursday Night, Friday, Friday Night, and Saturday. It was not a dead body of Yeshua in that tomb Saturday night. Yeshua was resurrected before dark on Saturday. As soon as they could get to the tomb without violating Sabbath, while it was yet dark on the first day of the week, most likely Saturday night, they found the tomb empty. The sabbath, the seventh day, Saturday, in truth, always has, and always will be the Lord's day, no matter how the Supreme Pontiff, and all others, would rather follow the traditions of men than the truth revealed in God's word. They have been deceived and are deceivers.

John 19:31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, (Passover), that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
John 19:32 Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.
John 19:33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:
John 19:34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
John 19:35 And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
John 19:36 For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
John 19:37 And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.
John 19:38 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 19:39 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 19:40 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 19:41 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 19:42 There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
John 20:1 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.

The resurrection of Yeshua had occurred before Mary got to the tomb, on Sabbath, Saturday, the Lord's day, that He sanctified, and commanded us to Remember to keep holy. Ex. 20:8.

Calendrical calculations are based on hebcal calendar calculation programme version 3.20:

Jewish Calendar References

The algorithms for hebcal were taken from Emacs 19's calendar routines by Edward M. Reingold and Nachum Dershowitz. Their program is extremely clear and provides many instructive examples of fine calendar code in emacs-LISP.

Edward M. Reingold's Calendar Book, Papers, and Code

Calendrical Calculations

By Nachum Dershowitz and Edward M. Reingold.

Cambridge University Press, 1997.

A unified, algorithmic presentation is given for the Gregorian (current civil), ISO, Julian (old civil), Islamic (Moslem), Hebrew (Jewish), Persian, Coptic, Ethiopic, Bahai, Mayan, French Revolutionary, Chinese, and Hindu calendars. Easy conversion among these calendars is a byproduct of the approach, as is the determination of secular and religious holidays. Calculations of lunar phases, solstices, equinoxes, sunrise, and sunset are described as well.

Implementing Solar Astronomical Calendars

By Nachum Dershowitz and Edward M. Reingold.

Birashkname (Musa Akrami, editor), University of Shahid Beheshti, 1998.

In this note we describe a unified implementation of calendars whose year is based on the astronomical solar cycle--that is, on the precise solar longitude at a specified time. For example, the astronomical Persian calendar begins its new year on the day when the vernal equinox (approximately March 21) occurs before apparent noon (the middle point of the day, not clock time) and is postponed to the next day if the equinox is after apparent noon. Other calendars of this type include the French Revolutionary calendar and the future form of the Bahai calendar. Our approach also offers a slight simplification to the implementation of the Chinese lunisolar calendar. (PostScript; 7 pages)

Line Drawing and Leap Years

By Mitchell A. Harris and Edward M. Reingold.

submitted for publication.

Bresenham's algorithm minimizes error in drawing lines on integer grid points; leap year calculations, surprisingly, are a generalization. We compare the two calculations, and show how to compute directly, without iteration, individual points of a Bresenham line. We also discuss an unexpected connection of the leap year/line pattern with Euclid's algorithm for computing the greatest common divisor. (PostScript; 18 pages)

Conversion To and From Other Calendars

The Emacs calendar displayed is always the Gregorian calendar, sometimes called the "new style" calendar, which is used in most of the world today. However, this calendar did not exist before the sixteenth century and was not widely used before the eighteenth century; it did not fully displace the Julian calendar and gain universal acceptance until the early twentieth century.

The Emacs calendar can display any month since January, year 1 of the current era, but the calendar displayed is the Gregorian, even for a date at which the Gregorian calendar did not exist.

While Emacs cannot display other calendars, it can convert dates to and from several other calendars.

Supported Calendar Systems

The ISO commercial calendar is used largely in Europe.

The Julian calendar, named after Julius Caesar, was the one used in Europe throughout medieval times, and in many countries up until the nineteenth century.

Astronomers use a simple counting of days elapsed since noon, Monday, January 1, 4713 B.C. on the Julian calendar. The number of days elapsed is called the Julian day number or the Astronomical day number.

The Hebrew calendar is the one used to determine the dates of Jewish holidays. Hebrew calendar dates begin and end at sunset.

The Islamic (Moslem) calendar is the one used to determine the dates of Moslem holidays. There is no universal agreement in the Islamic world about the calendar; Emacs uses a widely accepted version, but the precise dates of Islamic holidays often depend on proclamation by religious authorities, not on calculations. As a consequence, the actual dates of occurrence can vary slightly from the dates computed by Emacs. Islamic calendar dates begin and end at sunset.

The French Revolutionary calendar was created by the Jacobins after the 1789 revolution, to represent a more secular and nature-based view of the annual cycle, and to install a 10-day week in a rationalization measure similar to the metric system. The French government officially abandoned this calendar at the end of 1805.

The Maya of Central America used three separate, overlapping calendar systems, the long count, the tzolkin, and the haab. Emacs knows about all three of these calendars. Experts dispute the exact correlation between the Mayan calendar and our calendar; Emacs uses the Goodman-Martinez-Thompson correlation in its calculations. __________________________________________________________________________________

March 23/2008

Jesus was Crucified on Wednesday not Friday.

Luke.23: 52-54 " This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. 53 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. 54And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.”

We are approaching what the world calls " Easter weekend " There is a lot of details about holidays like this one coming up ~ some that are
fact, other that are fiction!  Tradition would tell us that:
        i. Jesus died on Friday afternoon at 3 p.m.
        ii. Jesus' body was put into the grave before 6 p.m. on that Friday night (just before the Jewish Sabbath day began)
        iii. Jesus lay in that grave Friday night, all day Saturday (Sabbath), and part of Sunday morning
        iv. Jesus arose from the grave prior to 6 a.m. on Sunday Morning.

        i. We are overwhelmed today with traditions (holiday traditions, religious traditions, church traditions, etc.)
        ii. Some tradition is right

 2 Thess.3: 6 “ Ά Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.”

, Some tradition is wrong

Col.2: 8 “ Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ."
       

 iii. The test is:  Is that Tradition in agreement to, or contrary to Scripture?

Mk. 7:7-9 “ Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

8  For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.

9  And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.”

c.  We must begin untangling this question by beginning to think as the Jew thinks, instead of how Gentiles think.

For a Gentile:
        i. The focal day of the week is Sunday
        ii. Our day begins at midnight, and runs 24 hours until the next midnight (hence, we talk about a day being " morning and evening ")
For a Jew:
        i. The focal day of the week is Saturday (they call it their Sabbath day)
        ii. Their day begins at 6 pm, and runs 24 hours until the next 6 pm. (hence, they talk about a day being "evening and morning"; 

Gen.1: 5, 8, 13 “And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. And the evening and the morning were the third day.”

Lev.23: 32 “ It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.”
d

 Luke 23:54 “ And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.”

The standard traditional teaching is that Jesus was crucified on Friday (in the year A.D. 30), and they quickly hurried to get His body off of the cross and into the tomb before Friday 6:00 p.m. rolled around, because at 6:00 p.m. on Friday ~ the weekly Saturday (weekly Sabbath) began . and it was sacrilegious to have a  criminal still hanging on the tree on the Saturday Sabbath day.

e.        Now, it does say that they hurried with Jesus' body because the "sabbath drew nigh", but the Bible tells us that the Jews had two different kinds of Sabbaths:

f.         - the weekly Saturday sabbath

Ex. 31:15 -16 “ Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

16  Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.”
 

The feast days called sabbaths

Lev. 23:27,32 “ Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you;

and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.”  -

see 6 p.m.)     

Those Jews had several yearly feasts that they called High Sabbaths:

Passover Lev. 23: 4-5 “ Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. 25 Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.” 

Pentecost Lev. 23:15 –16 “ Ά And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:

16  Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD ” 

Trumpets Lev.23: 24 “ Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.” 

Atonement Lev. 23: 27,32 “ Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.”

f.  That 1st one, the Passover was the 1st of their annual festival sabbaths. It commemorated the final plague on Egypt when firstborn of the
Egyptians died & Israelites were spared because blood smeared on the doorposts.

Ex. 12:12 -14,18 ” For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.

13  And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

14  And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.” 

Num. 28: 16 -18 “ Ά And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD.

17  And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.

18  In the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein:” 

Notice that the Passover was 1st month, 14th day. The Feast of Unleavened Bread that immediately followed it was 1st month 15th day to 1st month 21st day.
 

Ex. 12:2, 3, 6 “This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

3  Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:

And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.” 

The particular lamb was chosen on the 10th day of the 1st month, and then prepared until the 14th day of the 1st month.
 

g. 

Question:  Did these special feast sabbaths always land on a Saturday?  NO! [i.e. in 1997, Passover is on Tues., Apr.22nd]
      As Jesus was crucified in A.D. 30. the Passover in THAT YEAR landed on the Thursday of the week.  [It was JUST AS sacrilegious to execute a criminal on

a FEAST Sabbath as a WEEKLY Sabbath.]
 

g.        The question now is. " HOW do we know if Jesus died the day before a WEEKLY sabbath or HOLIDAY sabbath? " Answer:  (Jn 19:30-31) "It is finished . the Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away."
   

 That term, "sabbath day was a high day" tells us that it wasn't the weekly sabbath, but the holy day sabbath!

John 19:14 ” And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King! ” 

The exact feast sabbath that we are dealing with here is the Passover! (explains preparation. Vs.31)

i.  So, we now know that they were hurrying to take Jesus off the cross before the Thursday Passover Sabbath instead of the weekly Saturday sabbath.
    But the Bible doesn't stop there in it's proof, for look here in Matt.12: 38-40 “ Ά Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.

39  But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:

40  For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”

 (specifically given as 3 days & 3 nights)  

IF Jesus died at Friday 3pm., then let's count the days (even counting a part of a day as a day)

 They would have: DAYS   NIGHTS
Jewish Friday (Gentile Fri.3 pm – 6 pm; only 3 hrs) 1
Jewish Saturday (Gentile Fri .6 pm - Sat. 6  am;   12 hrs)      1
Jewish Saturday (Gentile Sat 6 am - Sat. 6 pm;   12 hrs)    1
Jewish Sunday (Gentile Sat. 6 pm - Sun. 6 am;  12 hrs)      1
Jewish Sunday (Gentile Sun. 6 am- Sun. 7 am;     1 hr)    1
Even stretching it (counting 1 hr as a day) . you still cannot get more than 3 days and 2 nights!  And when you read Luke 24:1. It would seem to suggest that they came BEFORE 6 am! John 20:1 “ Ά 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.”

  But IF Jesus died at Wednesday 3pm . & We’ll only count full 12 hr. periods as days (Jn.11: 9) or nights.

        They'd have   DAYS NIGHTS
Jewish Thursday (Gentile Wedn.6pm - Thu.6am;   12 hrs)      1
Jewish Thursday (Gentile Thurs.6am - Thur.6pm;  12 hrs)    1
Jewish Friday (Gentile Thurs.6pm - Frid.6am;   12 hrs)      1
Jewish Friday (Gentile Friday 6am - Frid.6pm;   12 hrs)    1
Jewish Saturday (Gentile Friday 6pm – Sa.u.6am;   12 hrs)      1
Jewish Saturday (Gentile Saturday 6am –Sat..6pm; 12 hrs) 1 

Without any stretching or counting 12 hours as day. You get the needed 3 days and 3 nights from Wednesday!   It means Jesus arose anytime after Saturday 6 pm (Gentile days) He'd already gone by Sunday 6am 

John. 20: 1-2 “ Ά 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.

2  Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.”
   Well, what did He do all night?

Matt.27: 50-53 “ Ά Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.

51  And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;

52  And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,

53  And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.”

That's why we don't have a " GOOD FRIDAY SERVICE " - but we have a " GOOD WEDNESDAY SERVICE "

j.  That being the case: what happen the last day before Jesus was crucified?
    1.   John 13:1-2 (Tuesday afternoon) Jesus had a supper with his 12 apostles in the upper room
    2.   John 13:4-16  Jesus washes the feet of His 12 apostles
    3.   John 13:18-26  Jesus told that 12 that one of them would betray him
    4.   John 13:27-30  Judas leaves that upper room to make plans to betray Christ
    5.   John 13:31 -- some wonderful truths are told to remaining 11(after Judas was gone) APPLICATION
    6.   John 13:38; Jesus tells Peter that Peter will betray Christ
    7.   John 14-17  Jesus teaches them, prays for them, etc.
    8.   John 18:1  Jesus takes His 11 to the Garden of Gethsemane to pray
    9.   John 18:3,12  (Tuesday later evening) Judas with a mob of soldiers come to Garden to arrest Christ
    10. John 18:13,19,24 Jesus is tried before religious leaders and the High Priest
    11. John 18:28,29  Jesus is tried before Pilate
    12. John 19:16-17  (Wednesday a.m.)  Jesus is sentenced to crucifixion (at the 3rd hr of the day ~ 9 a.m.  Mk.15:25)
    13. Lk.23: 44-46 There is darkness over whole earth from 12noon until 3pm
    14. Jn.19: 31,38, 42 Joseph of Arimathae hurries to get Jesus off the cross by Wednesday 6 pm

   We looked last week how that Jesus' spirit went to God (Lk.23:46), His body to the grave (Luke 24:1-4); and His soul to Hell (Acts 2:27,31) .
Jesus dropped of our sins and set free the O.T. saints.

Eph.4: 8-10 “ He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.) Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

9         (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? ”
   

 15. Jn.20:  They waited all Thursday, all Friday, all Saturday . & early Sunday morning went to respice the body!  What they didn't know
was that sometime Saturday night, Jesus had already risen from the dead!
 16. Jn 20:19; Jesus meets with His 10 apostles in the evening (Thomas excluded)
 17. Jn 20:26; A week later, Jesus meets with 11 apostles (Thomas included)
Back to our original Question  "Pastor, can you explain why you say that Jesus did NOT die on Good Friday?"
     i. He was removed from the cross quickly before the sabbath began!
     ii. That sabbath was not the weekly (Saturday) sabbath. but the festival (Passover) sabbath
     iii. In A.D. 30. that Passover Sabbath was on the Thursday of the week.
     iv. A Friday burial will not allow for Him being in the grave 3 days and 3 nights. but a Wednesday burial will.
     v. The business of Good Friday is a TRADITION of man that has replaced the WORD of God!