THE SON OF MAN SAID THAT HE WOULD SPEND THREE DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE HEART OF THE EARTH. Ironically, The People, Who Claim The Bible Is The Inerrant, Infallible, Literal Word Of God. Celebrate Easter Friday As The Day Upon Which Jesus of Nazareth Was Crucified And Sunday As The Day He Rose From The Dead. Now at best, if we play witchcraft with meanings of the words, we have three days and two nights, or at face value: Friday night, Saturday day and Saturday night, which makes for 1 day and 2 nights—not exactly...

 📜 Three Days and Three Nights: 

 The Prophetic Key to the Crucifixion Date

“For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”
— Matthew 12:40

This is one of the most explicit prophetic statements Jesus ever made. And yet, in most Christian traditions, it’s routinely explained away or treated as symbolic—especially when defending a Friday crucifixion and Sunday resurrection. But what if we took Jesus at His word?

What if “three days and three nights” actually means... three days and three nights?

🔍 The Problem with Friday

If Jesus died Friday afternoon and rose Sunday morning, then the maximum time He would’ve spent in the tomb is:

• Two nights (Friday and Saturday),

• One full day (Saturday),

• And only parts of Friday and Sunday.

That doesn’t add up. Even allowing for “inclusive reckoning,” this interpretation falls short of Jesus’ own standard.

✅ The Wednesday Solution

Only one timeline fits without mental gymnastics:

• Wednesday (Nisan 14) – Jesus is crucified and buried before sunset.

• Thursday (Nisan 15) – A special Sabbath, the first day of Unleavened Bread.

• Friday (Nisan 16) – Women buy and prepare spices after the High Sabbath.

• Saturday (Nisan 17) – The weekly Sabbath, on which they rested.

• Sunday (Nisan 18) – The tomb is found empty just after the third night ends.

That gives us:

• Three days (Thursday, Friday, Saturday),

• Three nights (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday),

• And a resurrection after the Sabbath, just as Matthew 28:1 (in Greek) implies: “After the Sabbaths…”

📅 Astronomical Confirmation: April 25, AD 31

Modern astronomical data confirms that Wednesday, April 25, AD 31 was the 14th of Nisan according to the sighted crescent moon method used in first-century Judea.

• U.S. Naval Observatory data shows the first visible crescent occurred on the evening of April 11, making Nisan 1 begin then.

• Counting 14 days places Passover squarely on Wednesday, April 25.

This matches the biblical timeline exactly—with no need for calendar manipulation or symbolism.

🧠 Scholars Are Catching On

Academics like Dr. Kevin P. Woodbridge (University of Hull, UK) have identified this same date through independent research, citing astronomical, historical, and gospel data. While Woodbridge doesn’t emphasize the “three days and three nights” prophecy as strongly, his calculations corroborate the Wednesday crucifixion—making his work a valuable insight towards the dismantling and debunking of the falsehood perpetrated by tradition.

📚 Prophecy, Not Tradition, Is the Guide

We must ask: Are we following tradition, or the text?

• Jesus said He would be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.

• The Passover lamb was killed on Nisan 14, not 15.

• The resurrection occurred after the Sabbaths, before sunrise on Sunday

• The Hebrew Calendar that the Jews observed was evening to evening not midnight to midnight.

Tradition may be powerful. But prophecy is precise.

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🧾 Conclusion

The Wednesday crucifixion on April 25, AD 31, is not a fringe theory—it’s the only option that honors both Scripture, eye witness and astronomy without compromise. When we let prophecy speak for itself, the timeline becomes clear when backup by indisputable facts and eyewitnesses, the Gospel accounts harmonize, and the tradition-bound confusion falls away.

The sign of Jonah wasn’t an analogy. It was a countdown.

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