What is this "High Day" in John 19:31 and why is it significant enough to be mentioned?

Question

John 19:31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

Answer 1

It was the 14th of Nissan the day before Unleavened Bread a High

Sabbath.

Have you ever noticed Matt 27:62-66 " On the next day, which followed

the Day of preperation, the cheif priests & Pharisees gathered together

to Pilate saying Sir we remember while He was still alive, how the

deceiver said " After 3 days I will rise." Therefore secure Tomb until

the 3rd day............ So they did & set a guard.

Interesting that if the next day was Shabbat they would not have gone to Pilate, If it was a Thursday or Friday they could well have done so. Another version of the Hebrew Matthew says that it was the morrow after the search for leaven, which makes it Friday morning they went to Pilate & that makes a lot of sense. Now if they did it on Friday they still had time, if Shabbat & He rose at the end of Shabbat they had no time to do this. Three days & 3 nights still stand. 72 Hours not 36.

Answer 2

This was the high-day Sabbath, the first day of Unleavened Bread (John 19:31; Leviticus 23:4-7). It is described as the day after the "Day of Preparation" (Matthew 27:62).



in the year AD31 the year Christ was put to death, this High Day was on a Thursday, since God counts days from sun down to sun down, this High Day began on Wednesday at sunset, until Thursday at sunset.



This is why Wednesday the Day He was put on the stake/cross, was called preparation day, the day before the Sabbath.







Feast of Unleavened Bread



Commanded in the Old Testament: Leviticus 23:6-8



Observed by Jesus Christ, the apostles or the Church in the New Testament:

Matthew 26:17; Mark 14:12; Luke 2:41-42, 22:1, 7; Acts 20:6; 1 Corinthians 5:6-8

Answer 3

The concept of a Good Friday crucifixion and a Sunday morning resurrection is a complete falsehood that has led to the deception of those who would be followers of the Christ for centuries. It is one of the traditions of men that we are warned against following. Christians should celebrate Passover as did our Savior.



The truth is that the resurrection was near the end of the weekly 7th day Sabbath (our Saturday) exactly 72 hours after He was placed in the tomb. Anyone who tells you anything else is calling Christ a liar. If it was NOT 72 hours, then He is NOT your Savior. The only sign that He gave that proves His identity is Matthew 12:40. Three days and three nights cannot possibly fit into Friday evening to before sunrise Sunday. You cannot even count, if you believe in a Friday crucifixion, Sunday as a day because the scriptures say He was already risen BEFORE the women got to the tomb and that it was still dark.



Several links where you can study the truth for yourself:



http://www.tomorrowsworld.org/cgi-bin/tw...



http://www.ucg.org/booklets/JC/



To truly understand what went on during the week of the crucifixion, you need to study the Biblical Holy Days:



http://media.pcog.org/en/Literature/PAG_...



To give you a basic overview, because you really need to study this vital truth for yourself, in the Bible, the days start and end at sunset:



Crucifixion week:



Our Tuesday evening (Sunset started the 14th day of Exodus 10-12) Yeshua ate the Passover with His disciples and instituted the bread and wine ceremony as a memorial to His death. That night He was betrayed, arrested, taken to the High Priest's house. The next morning (our Wednesday) very early before the morning sacrifices began at the Temple, He was taken to the Sanhedrin. Peter denied Him, most likely about the time the Temple Crier (Not a rooster) was calling for the morning sacrifices to begin.



After being shuttled back and forth between Herod and Pilate, He is finally condemned, tortured, and crucified and died on the cross late Wednesday afternoon and was placed in the tomb before the sunset that ended that day. This was the preparation day for the 1st High Sabbath of the year, the first day of Unleavened Bread (Again read the Exodus account and Leviticus 23).



This period of time from sunrise Wednesday to sunset Wednesday is also the preparation day for the High day Sabbath mentioned in John's account.



Night 1

Sunset Wednesday to Sunrise Thursday. The High Day Sabbath, the first day of Unleavened Bread, or the Passover of the Jews, mentioned in John's account (19:31) began at this sunset



Day1

Sunrise Thursday to sunset Thursday. It is still the High day Sabbath.



Night 2

Sunset Thursday to sunrise Friday began the preparation day for the weekly Sabbath.



Day 2

Sunrise Friday to sunset Friday. This is the daytime portion of the preparation day for the weekly Sabbath, during which the disciple prepared the spices for the final burial of Yeshua.



Night 3

Sunset Friday to sunrise Saturday, the weekly Sabbath began at sunset Friday and the disciples rested according to the commandment.



Day 3



Sunrise Saturday (Sabbath)to just before sunset Saturday (Sabbath), 72 hours after being placed in the grave before the first Holy Day ends the 3rd day.



This is so easily proven from the Bible that it is ridiculous that people still believe in a Good Friday/Easter Sunday scenario. Like so many other practices and beliefs of traditional Christianity, it is rooted in pagan worship of heathen gods and has no Biblical basis whatsoever.



Bottom line; Which do we love more, God and the truth or the false traditions of man?

Answer 4

The 'high day' is the Passover Day, the first month on the fourteenth day at evening, .." (Exodus 12:18;Leviticus 23:5)

Answer 5

In the Bible, there are three "feasts". Each of those feasts contain certain days that are "sabbaths".

When one of those sabbaths occurs on the weekly 7th day sabbath (saturday), then that day is called a "high sabbath".

(just like sometimes your birthday occurs on a saturday).



There are several reasons why this particular day (15th of Nisan/Abib) was significant enough to be mentioned, the primary reason was to identify certain prophecies that were fullfilled that day.



Also, there are some folk who foolishly propose that Christ was crucified on a week-day other than Friday -- and John 19:31 provides a simple and adequate refute to those false prophets.



Notice:



Exodus 12 - Israel freed from bondage:



14 Nisan - The Lord's Passover

Night - Unleaven Bread first eaten.

Day - Passover lamb slain about 3pm, blood put on the door posts and lintel.



15 Nisan - 1st Day of Festival of Unleavened Bread - A Sabbath day

Night - Passover lamb eaten - Death Angel slays the firstborn of Egypt at midnight.

Day - Israel set free in the morning.



The reference in John 18:28 to the Passover meal being observed on the day AFTER the crucifixion is speaking of the meal in which the Passover lamb would be eaten, which would occur at the early hours of [Friday night] 15 Nisan, the Paschal lamb - symbolic of Jesus having been slain a few hours earlier on the [Friday] afternoon of the 14th. As a result, Matthew 26:17, Mark 14:12, and Luke 22:1, 7-8 all are actually referring to the 14th of Nisan (in a general sense) calling it the first day of unleavened bread.



Summary: Jesus was crucified late on 14 Nisan, the Lord's Passover.



Here is a chronological listing of the events of: the last supper, Gethsemane, arrest and trial of Jesus, the crucifixion, the weekly seventh-day Sabbath, and the resurrection - that puts all the pieces of the puzzle together in a way that satisfies all the Biblical accounts -- with NO CONTRADICTIONS.



14 Nisan/Abib - Friday (Beginning our Thursday night - The Lord's Passover).



Luke 22:7 Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.

Luke 22:8 And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat.



Preparation for the Passover - Mat 26:17-19, Mark 14:12-16, Luke 22:7-13. -- Lev 23:5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord's passover. --- The 14th of Nisan is to be the Lord's Passover, and it was just after sunset (Thursday night - the beginning of the 14th day) that the Passover meal of unleavened bread was celebrated by Jesus with His disciples.



Judas identified as the betrayer- Mat 26:21-25, Mark 14:18-21, Luke 22:21-23, John 13:21-30.



The Lord's Supper- Mat 26:26-29, Mark 14:22-25, Luke 22:14-16.

Jesus retires to Gethsemane and is arrested- Mat 26:30-56, Mark 14:26-52, Luke 22:39-53, John 18:1-12.



In the morning of Friday (but still 14 Nisan) the trials took place, (Matt. 26:57-27:26 Mark 14:53-15:15, Luke 22:54-23:25, John 18:13-19:16), and the crucifixion began at about 9am (the third hour- Mark 15:25).



Jesus died at the very moment the Passover lamb was to be slain at the Temple, the ninth hour (our 3pm) on the 14th of Nisan (our Friday). From the moment Jesus was laid in the tomb, UNTIL sunset, the Jews reckoned to be the first day in the grave, even though it was only a few hours.



All of this took place on what was the preparation day - preparation not only for the 7th day Sabbath, but also for the upcoming Feast of Unleavened Bread.



Note - that particular seventh day Sabbath was a "high" day ... John 19:31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.



15th of Nisan/Abib - Saturday (A double "high" Sabbath day which began at sunset on our Friday night. First day of the week long Festival of Unleavened Bread). ... it was a "high" Seventh day (Saturday) Sabbath because it was ALSO the 15th of Nisan/Abib, a feast day Sabbath.



Lev 23:6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. Lev 23:7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.



The Messiah rests in the tomb, observing the Sabbath day rest the entire day. This is the second day in the grave.



16th of Nisan/Abib (The day of first fruits, Resurrection day) - Sunday, which began at sunset - on our Saturday night.



Not a Sabbath day in type or antitype.



The resurrection takes place at some time after the beginning of the day (at sunset Saturday) but before the [Sunday] morning sunrise. Just exactly when after sunset the resurrection took place is uncertain, but that it happened on what we today call Sunday is really quite clear as Luke 24 showed.



But here is more evidence: 1 Cor 15:20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the Firstfruits of them that slept.



So just how does the following verse relate? -- Lev 23:10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the Firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: Lev 23:11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.



The wave sheaf of Barley represented the first fruits of the resurrection, the Messiah (1 Cor 15:20), and the day it was presented was the day AFTER the Sabbath as Lev 23:11 just proved. (The Sabbath meant here is 15 Nisan/Abib, the first day of Unleavened Bread [Lev 23:6-7] - not necessarily "Saturday", however this year that calandar date did indeed fall on that particular weekly day.



Clearly then, since the first day of Unleavened Bread coincided with the Seventh day Sabbath that specific year, the resurrection of Jesus (the first fruits), happened on 16 Nisan/Abib the day AFTER the "double" or "high" Sabbath, on the first day of the week, Sunday.



Because the Firstfruits represents the resurrection, the day of Firstfruits must clearly occur on the third day after the crucifixion (14 Nisan), to fulfill scripture.



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Answer 6

First day of the feast of unleaven bread.



Leviticus 23:4-8

4These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.

5In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD's passover.

6And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.

7In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

8But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

Answer 7

The question that needs to addressed is on what day is the day of "preparation" is it on Friday the day the sabbath begins or is it the day before the sabbath begins, on thursday?



this is the question that needs to be answered.

Answer 8

it was a high sabbath