Re: Religion returns to Easter

"Douglas Berry" <penguin_boy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> On  16 Mar 2008 13:40:59 -0400 "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> carved the following into the hard stone of rec.arts.sf.fandom
>
>>I don't know what the holidays were like in ancient Judea.  Maybe they
>>stuffed an extra day in the *middle* of the weekend, given that it was
>>somehow three days from Good Friday to Easter Sunday.
>
> Remember that the Hebrew calendar starts a day at sundown. The Gospels
> make it clear that Jesus died before sundown, as there was still time
> to persuade the guards to lower him so he could be buried. Day One,
> Good Friday.
>
> Spends sundown Friday to sundown Saturday being dead; something I
> think we can all grok. Day Two
>
> Sometime after sundown on Saturday, decides that this "dead" thing is
> for other people, and comes back. Mary Magdalene wanders by the next
> morning (either alone or with a tour group, depending on where you are
> getting your story from) and immediately demands a writ of Habeas
> Corpus. Day Three, and everyone goes off to confuse matters by naming
> the holiday after a Saxon goddess.

There isn't a way to make it work out, it's just an error.

Matthew 12: 40 "For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the
belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three
nights in the heart of the earth."

Karl Johanson