This is the Baimah podcast with Marty Solomon. I was co-hosts, Brent Billings. Today, we pick up after the moment of Jesus's death on the cross, looking at the preparations for his burial and the work of two unexpected characters who take maybe for the first time their own stand in honoring Jesus.

I like it. I think we can dive right in. John, John 19. Yes. So what do you mean? Yeah. Yeah. Straight to the text. Okay.

Now it was the day of preparation, and I promise we would talk about this on this upset. Yeah, I'm anxious. I don't have any notes on this. I can't wait to hear what you have to say.

I don't necessarily have notes, but just I'm curious about the day of preparation. Like that, I'm not sure we've talked about that before. We've talked about Passover, clearly.

But I don't know if we've talked about the day of preparation. Yeah. So, and there are a lot of different takes on stuff. And there's a ton of people that work very hard at trying to show how the nuances of this week are all wacky and off, and they don't work. And here's this.

Jesus is actually in the tomb for like three nights or whatever. Like there are so many weird wacky theories out there about what's going on here that I just don't think are warranted in the text. I think it's people taking.

The text probably a tad bit too literally probably not in its original language, probably making some assumptions and being a little bit too picky about context and nuance.

But in my opinion before about the case for John being written in Hebrew, not as much of a strong case as we maybe have for Matthew, but we've talked about that.

Yeah. And I've avoided bringing that up at every time that I thought like because I've thought a lot in the last few episodes. I'm like, man, this is another place where you can make that case. This is another place, but I don't really like the theory. So I haven't been bringing it up probably to set my own mind to these because I don't want to wrestle with it any more than I already have.

But yeah, I mean, that could be at play here, but the day of preparation is the day prior to Passover. It's the day. So Passover is going to be that evening, the technical Passover. The as I understand the historical details, this isn't keeping me up at night. Like I don't think it's all that difficult.

I have not really figured out why everybody's so worked up about the days and the details of making this week work and making the gospels harmonize themselves. I think John does use language differently. I think he references the days little differently.

And there might be reasons why he does that textually, but generally speaking, just historically contextually, the day of preparation is the day before Passover is a day you're getting ready for Passover. Passover on this year fell on that Passover is going to be Friday evening.

You're going to eat that you would have eaten that Passover Friday evening, but Friday evening is what in the Jewish world, Brent? That is the Sabbath. It's a Sabbath. Now they don't do this today, but there seems to be plenty of evidence that suggested in the first century, second temple Judaism, you didn't want to be working and having a satire and holding all that stuff on this.

John's going to call it even later a special Sabbath. This is a holiday Sabbath. The holiday falls on the Sabbath. And so that makes it an interesting special Sabbath. And so in that day, they bumped their satire one night earlier. Now the official satire, the Levitical satire, in other words, the sacrifice that has to be offered in the temple by the priests, that still that doesn't change on the calendar. That's still the day it needs to be.

But your family at home had the satire the night before. And this is why the whole week works. Jesus celebrated the satire on Thursday evening with his disciples.

The next evening was actually Passover. So that Passover, the official sacrificial Passover lamb, the the Paschal sin offering in the temple would have been offered while he's dying on the cross.

So he still dies as the Passover lamb, but also eats the Passover with his disciples the night prior. But then that means that that Sabbath is coming and they now have to get him in the tomb like all the details work, all the details work.

He's eating on Thursday, he's sacrificed as the Passover sacrifice on Friday before sundown. And then at sundown, the Passover actually begins with not observing the Passover as far as a meal goes. So now he's in the tomb, which means he then rises on Sunday.

And now he's that that makes that makes him rise on first fruits. The first Sunday following the Paschal Shabbat is always first fruits. So that makes him rise on first fruits. That means he's in the tomb for about at least 26 hours.

That would be three Jewish days. And I know that in some references, it's three days and three nights, but that's usually a reference to prophets, not a reference to his actual burial. That's a remorse when it says three days and three three days and three nights.

The three days, he's in the tomb for three days. Any part of time of any day, one hour on one day. All of Saturday and one hour on the next day is three Jewish days. That would be three and the Jewish mind. That's three days.

26 hours would be three days. So I think he gets not just any not just any 26 hours, but the last hour of one day. And then the 24 hours of a full day. And then the first

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