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Dave in Tenn:
Remember that the Hebrew scripture doesn't count 'days' as 24-hour periods...or as 'days and nights'.  Day is day and night is night.  He was raised on the third day.  He was raised again in three days.  From crucifiction to resurrection:  3 days.  FriDAY day, SaturDAY day, SunDAY day, as we'd say it in English.

However, He DID spend Three Days and Three Nights in the heart of the earth.  He did not spend all three NIGHTS in the tomb, however, as Ray has explained.  The FIRST of those three nights he spent in Gethsemene.  There is no contradiction. 

mharrell08:

--- Quote from: edpro on March 07, 2011, 07:06:56 PM ---"Not exactly Heidi, Jesus was not dead for 3 days. Jesus said He would be in the 'heart of the earth' for 3 days."

I was referring to this topic. Jesus was said to be in the heart of the Earth for three day's and He was not necessarily dead for three day's. So I looked at the other verse to see if maybe it say's something like "destroy this temple for three day's and I will raise it up" but it did not.
So I wanted to see what did Jesus mean when he said that "in three day's I will raise it up".

So the question is "Was Jesus dead for three day's"?
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Edpro,

See Samson's post regarding the word 'destroy'. When Jesus said 'Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up' (John 2:19), it was not just about in the physical sense. Jesus had also predicted that He would be 'betrayed and condemned' [Matt 20:18, Mark 10:33]. All these events happened over 3 days and were part of destroying of the temple, in the symbolic sense.


Hope this helps,

Marques

edpro:
Thank you guy's soooooo much. This helps a lot. Some time's it takes a person who can thing outside the box to see certain thing's that another might not see.

Thank you.

Ed

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