(19) Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and
of the Holy Ghost:
(20) Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you
alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.‖
28:1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week―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.‖
As noted, Y‘shua and His followers remained in the faith of Israel and its Torah; and this observed the
Sabbath on the "last" day of the week; i.e., from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. The Biblical method
of counting the "days of the week" is Day 1, Day 2, etc., through Day 6 – followed by the Sabbath.
The change from keeping YHWH's Sabbath to worshipping on Sunday is discussed in the article, Not
Subject to the Law of God? in the YashaNet library.
Overview on the week leading up to the crucifixion and the resurrection
Western
Days
Time Hebrew
DaysNissan
DatesActivity1 st The New moon starts the month Nissan – exactly 14 days later
is Passover according to Exod 12:1-14.
Friday 6
th
Day 9th
6 Days before the passover, Y‘shua^ came to Bethany. (John
12:1)Saturday Sabbath 10 th The next day a great multitude that had come to the Passover
Feast heard that Y‘shua was coming to Jerusalem - they took
branches of palm trees and went out to meet him. (John 12:12-
13)
Sunday 1 st Day 11 th
Monday 2 nd Day 12 th 2 Days before Passover, Y‘shua is in the home of Simon the
leper (jar maker) and the woman pours perfume on his head.
(Matt 26:2, 7)
18:0
0
3 rd Day 13 th Jewish day start at 18:00 when the sun goes down,Tuesday 00:0
0
And not as the Western day 6 hours later at midnight.06:0
0
12:0
0
18:0
0
4 th Day 14 th
Passover
starts
Tuesday
night
18:00Now on the first day of the Feast of the Unleavened Bread
(Passover), the 14th of Nisan when the sun went down and the
Passover day started, the disciples came to Y‘shua, saying to
him, ―where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the
passover?" (Matt 26:17-18). They started with the meal shortly
after sundown as per the Hebrew custom. (Matt 26:19-20)Wednesda
y
00:0
0
It is customary to eat the Passover meal till normally just after
midnight - Y‘shua and disciples then left for the Garden of
Gethsemane to pray. Whilst praying, the soldiers came and
took him to Caiaphas where He was tried in the early hours of
the morning before sunrise.
06:0
0
At sunrise, Y‘shua was taken to Pilate and Herod where he was
sentenced to death; and at exactly 09:00 he was nailed to the
stake. (Mark 15:25)
12:0
0
At 12:00, Y‘shua cried out ―my God my God why have you
forsaken me‖ (Mark 15:34) and darkness came over the land till
15:00 (Mark 15:33) when Y‘shua died (John 19:30). From 15:00
to 18:00, Joseph pleaded for Y‘shua‘s body from Pilate; and
then it was removed from the stake, washed, prepared and put
in the tomb (Matt 27:57). All this had to be done before the next
day which started 3 hours away at 18:00; as the next day was a