Yeshua was three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. All the texts place the day before the night because the day is before the night. Here is how it goes:
All the resurrection passages place the resurrection on the "first of the Sabbaths":
Matthew 28:1, Now the later of the Sabbaths, at the dawning on the first of the Sabbaths, Miriam Magdalene and the other Miriam came to look at the grave.
Mark 16:2 And very early on the first of the Sabbaths, they came upon the tomb as rises the sun.
Leviticus 23:15 explains why the Sabbath after Passover is called the first of the Sabbaths. It has to be since seven Sabbaths are counted after Passover!
Also Luke 24:1 and John 20:1 have the same literal translations. This can be
confirmed by looking at Young's Literal Translation, reading the Gree
k,
or many interlinears, or even Latin translations. The 480 pape book at the
left goes into great detail into every aspect of this. There are preview
pages on my home page. Also
the same chart may be found in my other online chronology book, The
Scroll of Biblical Chro-nology and Propehcy. All the pages of this book
are available for previewing (online
chronology book).
I do show in the books that placing the resur-rection in the afternoon of the Sabbath or at sunset on the Sabbath is a chronological error. It causes the wave sheaf offering to miss its typological fulfilment by Messiah (1Cor. 15:20-23). The Levitical Law teaches that the offering lasts all night and does not end during the day (Lev. 6:9-10). Also the Levitical Law teaches that the day for the PEACE OFFERING ends at daybreak (Lev. 7:15).
The Saturday afternoon/sunset theory of the resurrection has achieved the status of tradition among opponents of the Friday-Sunday tradition. Did its author's know about these problems? No they did not. Did they know their correction to the first tradition contained flaws? Perhaps some did. One very important text that is fatal to this view is Luke 24:21. This is often justly used by Friday-Sunday proponents to refute the Saturday afternoon/sunset theory of the resurrection. For in Luke 24:21, Cleopas says that the third day has just passed when they are going to Emmaus! It is hard to make this work when Sunday morning is the 5th day from Wednesday, using the Scriptural method of inclusive counting. There is really no way this text can work out unless the resurrection is at DAWN or just before on the weekly Sabbath. The above book explains how it works out.