This is now Sunday morning. Jesus was interred in the tomb just before sunset on Wednesday. Count it out—3 days and 3 nights. If we wanted to spend the time, I could take you through and show how God inspired the prepositions used, so that when He spoke of when He was going to be resurrected, He used "in," He used "after," He used "within" to describe it. In other words, by doing so, He was proving He was going to be there in the tomb exactly 72 hours—within 3 days, on 3 days, after 3 days. It had to be exactly 72 hours.
In John 20:1, we find that it was very early on Sunday morning. That is 4 days from the time He was interred. We know then that by the time He spoke to Mary—a Sunday morning—He had been resurrected for about 8 or 10 hours already. Because we know that He was crucified on the 14th, and that the next day after He was crucified was a high holy day (the 15th),and He was resurrected on the 17th, it is therefore absolutely necessary that He be crucified in a year in which Passover would fall on a Wednesday. That is the only way it can be in order to be Scripturally true. There can be no deviations from that.
