What day was the -Preparation Day? The Preparation day was the 14th of Aviv, but just what day of the week did this fall on? The Catholic and Christian churches have taught that this day was a Friday, however, this day was an Annual Holy day that could fall on any day of the week. What do the scriptures have to say about what day of the week that it fell upon? In order to prove which day that Yahshua was sacrificed, we must look to see which day that He rose from the grave.

Mattithyah 27:62-66; “Now the next day that followed the Day of Preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together to Pilate, saying; Ruler, we remember how that deceiver, while He was still alive, said; ‘After three days I will be raised up.’ Therefore, command that the sepulcher be made secure until the end of the third day, or His disciples may go and steal Him away, and say to the people: ‘He has been raised from the dead. So the last deception will be worse than the first. Pilate said to them; ‘You have a guard of soldiers . Go your way and make it as secure as you can. So they went and secured the sepulcher by sealing the stone and setting a watch.'”

According to verse 62, where it says, “the next day that followed the Day of Preparation”, would make you think that the chief priests and Pharisees went to Pilate on the 15th of Aviv. However, since the 15th is the Passover High Holy Day Sabbath, they probably would not be going to Pilate on this day. So it must be the day after the Passover Sabbath Day, (which is an annual day that can fall on any day of the week).

This would actually be the second day that Yahshua was in the grave.

The chief priests and Pharisees were over zealous about what couldn’t be done on the Sabbath. They condemned Yahshua for healing people on the Sabbath (Matt 12:9-14, Mark 1:21-28, Luke 13:10-17, Luke 14:1-6, Yahchanan 5:1-16, Yahchanan 9:1- 16), and for allowing His disciples to gather grain and eat it on the Sabbath day (Mark 2:23-28, Luke 6:1-5). Even today the rabbis and priests have man-made rules about what can be done on the Sabbath, such as how far a person can drive or walk to get to and from a synagogue. I say this only to prove that they would not have violated the Sabbath day by going to Pilate, it was the day after the Sabbath, the 16th.

Yahchanan 19:39-40; “And Nicodemus, who at the first came to Yahshua by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes; about a hundred pounds. Then they took the body of Yahshua, and wound it in linen wrappings with the spices, in accordance with the burial customs of the Yahdaim.

Luke 23:54-56; “And that day was the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near. Now the women who had come with Him from Galilee followed after, and noted the sepulcher, and saw how His body had been laid. Then they returned. Then they prepared spices and ointments. Then they rested the Sabbath Day according to the commandment.”