Joannah schreef:In the 'translation' of your Bible it may read first day of the "week," but that is an unfortunate translation. That's why the word day is italicized in the KJV. It means the actual word day is not in God's Word. And the actual word there translated week is Sabbaths or [sabbaton]. You should note carefully that in that verse of Matthew 28:1, the two words (one translated 'week' and the other 'Sabbath'), are the exact same identical words. It is the plural of sabbath, [sabbaton]. i.e., in the first or beginning of Sabbaths. It may not have seemed correct to the translators to say, "in the end of the Sabbaths (plural), as it began to dawn towards the first of the Sabbaths (plural)," and they decided to translate it another way. But that is exactly what the original text says. And I might add, exactly what it means! When we understand that it was speaking of an end to the Old Testament era of Sabbaths, and the beginning (dawn) of a New Testament era of Sabbaths, it makes perfect sense. We can readily understand this mistranslation, though not condone it. Translating one instance of sabbaton "week," and the other identical sabbaton as "Sabbath" (singular) in the same context and tense, is incorrect. By the way, all scholars confirm that in the original Greek, both words are the identical plural word for "Sabbaths.
This is not true and conform the Greek. All scholars confirm that the meaning is the first DAY of the week. See your Greek Biblical dictionary (it doesn't really matter which).
Literally it means: the first [day] from the sabbats, and that is clear the Sunday.
The plural has no specific meaning as all scholars confirm.
The same is the case with 'the first day of the months' (plural) as several times in the Old Testament occur.
Be aware that the word 'sabbat' in Hebrew and Greek have two meanings: 1. sabbat. 2. week.
But than how can Easter and Pentecost be 50 days apart, if both of them are on a sunday?
Don't forget that Pentacost is the fulfilllment of lev 23:16.
Indeed is this the fullfillment. There is however no problem because the 50th day always is the same day of the week as the first day to count.
The first day of 50 = 16 Nisan = 2nd day of the Jewish Passover (the day after the sabbat following Lev. 23.16)
The 50 day of 50 = 6 Sivan = Pentecost
If 16 Nisan is Sunday, also 6 Sivan is Sunday. This is still kept by the Jews today, see next quote.
(N.B. Jesus Christ died on 14 Nisan, the day of the Passover Lamb, the 15 day was both weekly sabbat as the passover sabbat.)
Wikipedia schreef:The date of Shavuot is directly linked to that of Passover. The Torah mandates the seven-week Counting of the Omer, beginning on the second day of Passover and immediately followed by Shavuot. This counting of days and weeks is understood to express anticipation and desire for the Giving of the Torah. On Passover, the Jewish people were freed from their enslavement to Pharaoh; on Shavuot they were given the Torah and became a nation committed to serving God.
Shavuot = our Pentecost = 50th day
Second day of Passover = 16 Nisan = the day of the resurrection