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Sabbath or Sunday Resurrection? – Pt 2

Assisting us in putting together the various facts pointing to Yahushua’s resurrection on the first day of the week (Sunday) is the important story found in Luke 24.

After giving the account of the women coming to the tomb of Yahushua on the first day of the week, just before daybreak, and finding the tomb empty (vs. 1-8), it continues by saying that the women immediately went to the apostles and other disciples to report their findings (vs. 9-10).

These people disbelieved the women, but Keph (Peter) rose up and went to the tomb to see for himself. Finding their testimony true, he returned home wondering about what had happened (vs. 11-12).

Road to Emmanus
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Sabbath or Sunday Resurrection? – Pt 1

Many present-day followers of Yahweh believe that Yahushua the Messiah was resurrected on the seventh-day Sabbath. For them, the idea of the Messiah being resurrected on the first day of the week (Sunday), which coincides with the Christian holiday of Easter, is too offensive to entertain.

Is it actually possible to determine the exact day of the week when Yahushua the Messiah was resurrected? After thoroughly considering all the evidence, this study will demonstrate that we can indeed ascertain the actual day of Yahushua’s resurrection.

Jonah
Yahushua tells the scribes and Pharisees that the only sign of his Messiahship that would be given to an evil and adulterous generation is “the sign of Jonah the prophet.”

For even as the prophet Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish three days and three nights, so will the son of man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights. (Matthew 12:38-40; see Luke 11:29-30)

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