This indicates that the «an high day»
sabbath ended at noon!
Not exact matches
But by the
end of the second day we begin to slowdown, and by the third day we're finding a
sabbath rhythm of morning prayers and coffee followed by whatever we want to do or not do.
The story
ends with a Q.E.D., «so the Son of man is lord even of the
sabbath.»
Jesus was entombed after his crusifiction, not buried, and on the third day he rose in the
end of the
sabbath.
Matthew, perhaps aware of this difficulty, has omitted the word «already», making it possible for the words to mean, «while evening was coming», and both Luke and John have understandably omitted the whole of this time reference which reduced the available time to nil, and instead have
ended their versions of the burial by saying that the
sabbath was then about to begin.
Only at the
end, when our partial knowledge ceases, when we see God «face to face,» 184 will we fully know the ways by which — even through the dramas of evil and sin — God has guided his creation to that definitive
sabbath rest185 for which he created heaven and earth.
By the
end of my personalized
sabbath I felt rested and energized without doing much more than making a personal pledge to skip e-mail, social media and my laptop.