Jesus was not in the tomb for three days and three nights?
Haman Begging the Mercy of Esther, by Rembrandt (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Jesus speaks of himself saying, “For just 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”(Matt 12:40). But Jesus was not in the tomb three days and three nights? If you were a 1st century Jew and heard someone utter the phrase “three days and three nights” you would never expect precisely seventy-two hours. Remember that you would have no wrist-mounted method of measuring hours after sunset anyway. The correct way to interpret Scripture is to employ the historical-grammatical hermeneutic. That just means we interpret the Bible by understanding the language the Bible writers used in their own historical context. Two thousand years from now sociologists will examine flat screen relics from the 21st century and will ponder why people all over the Western world referred to Saturday and Sunday collecti