Related:
– The meaning of παρασκευή (‘day of preparation’)
– Re. The Passover: Why do Christians Assert the Calendar Day Began at Sunset?
– Re. The Crucifixion: Possible to Correlate Timekeeping and Calendar Days?
– Historical Evidence that the Sabbath Rest Began at Sunset – Prohibiting Work During the Preceding Night?
1. Question – Word Study, Greek Semantics
Why is ἐπιφώσκω, (Dawn) translated completely differently in Matthew and Luke?
2. The Texts
NASB / Interlinear Matthew 28:1 – Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn, (ἐπιφωσκούσῃ) toward the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to look at the grave.
NASB, Luke 23:54, Interlinear – It was the preparation day, and the Sabbath was about to begin, (dawn?, ἐπέφωσκεν).
In English, the Idiom Seems Counter-Intuitive:
English Analogy: The Dawn of Christmas Eve.
Varnel Watson
obviously NOT a cultural calvinist Philip Williams Read this Gary Micheal Epping very much declining in the old US
Philip Williams
Again, your links aren’t working.
Varnel Watson
of course it does – opens to a discussion question on WHO IS THIS CULTURAL JESUS?