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The second support for a Wednesday crucifixion is that in the Friday view there are too many events (Scroggie lists twenty)2 between Christ’s crucifixion at 3 p.m. and His death at 6 p.m. Scroggie proposes that Jesus was buried on Wednesday evening, the body remained in the tomb during Thursday, Nisan 15, the Passover Sabbath, and then on Friday, the day between the Sabbaths, the body was embalmed.3 In addition to these two main arguments, there is also the argument from typology whereby the lamb
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