How many sabbaths in the bible

After but the Sabbath [pl] at [the] dawning Elthen mariam hE magdalEnE There are two occurrences of "sabbaton" in this verse. The first use of "sabbaton" is in the genitive plural and occurs in the phrase "after the sabbaths" which refers to a point in time "after the sabbaths" - referring to more than one sabbath.

Considering the word rendered "first" which modifies the second "sabbaton", genitive plural; we must conclude that this second 'sabbaton' refers to a "week", or period of seven days. This proves that there was more than one "Sabbath" during the week Jesus was crucified. The first day of the feast of unleavened bread was past. Sabbath number one beginning on Wednesday Evening. And the second sabbath which was past was the weekly Saturday sabbath.

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Here the scholars do not quite agree, but the second option is favoured. For Passover, the weekly Sabbath always from Friday evening to Saturday evening lies between the two High Sabbaths 15th and 21st Nisan , unless it falls on the 15th Nisan double Sabbath. Since the High feast Sabbaths fall on different weekdays from year to year, the weekly Sabbath is either at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of the Passover festival see the illustration in the chapter on the Intermediate day :.

On the 14th of Nisan, the Passover lambs were slaughtered at the 9th hour i. This was followed by the Feast of Unleavened Bread, on which no leaven was allowed to be eaten. The Passover festival lasts 7 days 15th to 21st Nisan and the first 15th and last 21st days are High Sabbaths or: Great Sabbaths.

Between these two annual Sabbaths there is always the weekly Sabbath, the 7th day of the week. This is the " first Sabbath" in the counting of the 7 weekly Sabbaths until Pentecost. The major Sabbaths, on the other hand, fall on different weekdays from year to year.

In the year in which Jesus was crucified, the weekly Sabbath fell on the 17th Nisan. In the Jewish calendar, this corresponds to the same frequent sequence of days that existed, for example, in the years , , and etc.

Jesus died on the 14th Nisan and was raised after "3 days and 3 nights". That was on the 17th of Nisan. This was on a weekly Sabbath, more precisely, on the " first Sabbath" Mk , which is the first of the 7 weekly Sabbaths that are counted every year until the 3rd yearly Sabbath of Pentecost Shavuot :. The first annual Sabbath is exactly in the middle 15th Nisan of the first month, therefore always at full moon. The people of Israel were freed from Egypt, the land of sin, at full moon.

Jesus, the true Passover Lamb, was also crucified at 3 p. The second annual Sabbath is the 21st Nisan , which is the final day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The third annual Sabbath is Pentecost. Because of the counting of the 49 days 7 weeks it is also called the "Festival of Weeks" Shavuot, see Omer.

Between the years and there are exactly 10 years in which, according to the Jewish calendar, there is exactly the same sequence of days as when the Isrealites left Egypt first Passover and when Jesus was crucified last Passover :.

The feasts of God are family celebrations and gatherings with the Creator. In their expressiveness they offer much more than Christmas baby birthday party, origin: birthday of the pagan sun god at the time of the winter solstice and Easter origin: festival of the fertility goddess Ostarte. In addition to the death and resurrection of Jesus, the feasts of the Bible also show a time frame in God's plan for mankind until eternity.

Anyone who overlooks the symbolism of God's biblical feast days will never be able to fully understand God's plan.

He will also never be able to put the fulfilment of prophetic events into the right time frame. Jesus Himself observed all 7 High Sabbaths and came to Jerusalem every year for the feast days. Refer chapter 23 of Leviticus. Three of these days are defined as days of 'sabbathism'. Lev Speak to the children of Israel, saying: 'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a rest sabbathism , a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.

While the word 'sabbath' Strong's reference is not expressly used in these verses it is apparent these days were also a form of sabbath, ie break from normal work. The Greek is commonly 'first of the sabbaths' and refers to the wave sheaf day which began the counting toward Pentecost.

In other words the notion 'sabbaths' connects back to the first form of 'sabbaths' discussed under point one above, ie a specific set of weekly sabbaths defining the period between the first and third month assemblies.

And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the day of the Sabbaths not 'Sabbath day' , and stood up to read. Acts But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the day of the Sabbaths not 'Sabbath day' and sat down.

Acts And on the day of the Sabbaths not 'Sabbath day' we went out of the city to the riverside, where prayer was customarily made; This term 'day of the sabbaths' could refer either to the wave sheaf day the first day of the sabbaths period or Pentecost the last day of the sabbaths period.

So it seems the term 'day of the sabbaths' is actually describing the wave sheaf day. Mark Then they went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbaths He entered the synagogue and taught. Mark Now it happened that He went through the grainfields on the Sabbaths ; and as they went His disciples began to pluck the heads of grain. Matt At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbaths.