Maundy Thursday?

[rstrats]

Does anyone who is familiar with Maundy Thursday, the day during Holy Week which commemorates the last supper of the Messiah with the apostles know which part of Thursday that this took place - during the night time of the first half of Thursday, or during the daytime of the second half of Thursday?

 

[rstrats]

Since it's a new year perhaps someone new visiting this topic may know the answer.

 

[tango]

Realistically it probably wasn't Thursday at all. Traditionally we commemorate Christ's crucifixion on Good Friday, largely based on the idea that his body was placed in the tomb before sunset so that it would be there before the Sabbath. The Sabbath is Saturday, therefore the crucifixion is said to have been on Friday.

But there's a problem, because death on Friday to resurrection on Sunday morning doesn't fit the timeline of three days and three nights.

The Last Supper was commemorating Passover, an annual Sabbath. So if we figure Jesus was crucified earlier in the week we can find a timeline that has his body in the tomb before the Sabbath starts (an annual Sabbath, not the weekly Saturday version), the resurrection on Sunday morning (after the Sabbath, on the first day of the week), that still fits three days and three nights between the two.