Day 8, Mary Magdelene and other women go to the tomb to finish the burial procedure and find it empty. The guards fled as the stone rolled away. Mary Magdelene meets Jesus who calms her. She tells Peter, Peter goes inside to see the unwrapped linen strips and folded cloth that was on his head.
I used day by number so as not to confuse the reader.
Day 1 is Palm Sunday, and so on.
Day 4 should be Good Wednesday.
Days 5, 6, and 7 Jesus is in the tomb. Three full days.
If Jesus was crucified on Friday, he's only in the tomb a day and a half.
Matthew 12: 38-41
38 Then some of the teachers of the Law and the proud religious law-keepers said to Jesus, “Teacher, we would like to have you do something special for us to see.” 39 He said to them, “The sinful people of this day look for something special to see. There will be nothing special to see but the powerful works of the early preacher Jonah. 40 Jonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of a big fish. The Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the grave also. 41 The men of the city of Nineveh will stand up with the people of this day on the day men stand before God. Those men will say these people are guilty because the men of Nineveh were sorry for their sins and turned from them when Jonah preached. And see, Someone greater than Jonah is here!
The sign Jesus gave to scribes and pharisees was being in the tomb three full days, not a part of Friday, Saturday and part of Sunday.
Three full days is also proof he was dead and not in a coma.
The other part of the prophesy is that these scribes and pharisees would reject his "something special" and then salvation would be open to the gentiles metaphorically "Nineveh."
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