The new moon was the beginning of a month:
I Samuel 20:24 So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat meat.27 And it came to pass on the morrow, which was the second day of the month, that David’s place was empty: and Saul said unto Jonathan his son, Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to meat, neither yesterday, nor to day?
New moons do not always occur on the same day of the week.The last one, in the central time zone was on the third day of the week (Tuesday, March 24, 2020)Then the next (Wednesday, April 22, 2020), then (Friday, May 22, 2020), etc.So, the seventh month would start on different days of the week, each year.Therefore the tenth day of the seventh month would also be on a different day of the week, each year.It did not always fall on the seventh day of the week, yet it was to be a sabbath of rest:
Leviticus 16:29 And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:30 For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.31 It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.
The day of atonement was to be a sabbath of rest, no matter what day of the week it was on.So, for many years, there would have been two sabbaths of rest that week.One on the day of atonement and one on the weekly sabbath.The same thing was for the feast of trumpets:
Leviticus 23:24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
The same thing on the feast of tabernacles on the 15th, and then also on the 22nd:
Leviticus 23:39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
So, some weeks of the year with feast days, had one of these special sabbaths in addition to the weekly sabbath.It appears that the same thing was true for the 1st and 6th days of the feast of unleavened bread:
Leviticus 23:5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD’S passover.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.7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.8 But 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.
So, was that special sabbath, the high sabbath mentioned in John 19?
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.
If so, then was the sundown, after Jesus was crucified, the start of that high sabbath?Then would it have been followed by a day which was not a weekly sabbath that year?A day when the chief priests and Pharisees could go back in to meet with Pilate?
Matthew 27:62 Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,
Would it not have been a day that the women could have gone to the market to purchase spices and then prepare them?Then the following day would have been the weekly sabbath, in which they could neither have purchased the spices in the market, nor have prepared them.If it was close to sundown when they watched where Jesus’ body was laid, then they would not have had time to purchase and prepare the spices that day.Also, they could not have purchased and prepared the spices the next day, because it was the high sabbath.The day following that they could go to the market to buy and then prepare the spices, and also that day the chief priests and Pharisees could go back and meet with Pilate.However, the next day after that, none of that could have been done, because it was the weekly sabbath.Then early the following day, the first day of the week, before the markets would have been open, they brought the spices that they had previously bought and prepared:
Mark 16:1 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
Luke 23:56 And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
Luke 24:1 Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.
So, if Jesus was buried at sundown Wednesday, the high sabbath would then have begun immediately afterwards.Then Thursday, during the day, was during the high sabbath, and the markets were closed, and no work was done, like preparing spices.Then Friday, during the day, the markets would have been open, work would have been done, like preparing spices, and the chief priests and Pharisees could meet with Pilate.Then Saturday, during the day, was still the weekly sabbath, and the markets were closed, and nor work done, like preparing spices.Then at sundown Saturday, the weekly sabbath was over, and the first day of the week began.So, if Jesus rose from the dead at sundown, it was right at the conclusion of the sabbath and the beginning of the 1st day of the week.Then some 8 or 9 hours later, while it was still dark, the women arrived at the tomb.If it happened that way, then Jesus was buried from sundown Wednesday to sundown Saturday.That would have allowed all the above things to happen.It also would have meant that Jesus would have been buried for exactly three days and three nights:Wednesday night, Thursday day, Thursday night, Friday day, Friday night, and Saturday day.
Matthew 12:39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
I had grown up being taught that Jesus was buried for even less than a day and a half.They taught me that he was buried by sundown Friday, but rose before sunrise Sunday.By so doing, those who taught that, were robbing the Jews of the only one sign that had been given to the Jews at the time of the resurrection.That sign, then, was continuously robbed from the Jews of every generation from that time until now.I was taught that, back then, even a part of a day was counted for a day, to explain the three days.However, that in no way explained the three nights, at all.Perhaps I’m not correct in understanding the days and sabbaths from the crucifixion to the resurrection.If so, would someone show me, from the scriptures, how I should understand them correctly?