THANK GOD FOR GOOD WEDNESDAY!

Because Jesus said His body would remain in the grave for three days and three nights (Mt. 12:40), a Friday Crucifixion is not possible, due to the fact that Jesus rose sometime after sunset on Saturday, or on the first day of the week:  Sunday (Mt. 28:1; Mk. 16:1; Lk. 24:1; Jn. 20:1).  The confusion as to the day of Christ's horrible, torturous death, stems from a misunderstanding of what is meant by the word "Sabbath" in Mark 15:42 and Luke 23:54.  The "Sabbath" mentioned is NOT the weekly Sabbath, but it is the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread!

"And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are My feasts.  Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the SABBATH of the LORD in all your dwellings.  These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.  In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD's Passover.  And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.  In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.  But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein" (Lev. 23:1-8).

In other words, "holy convocations" are Sabbaths.  The Passover, the fourteenth of Nisan, was the preparation day in which the Lamb was slain and prepared before sunset.  Then, on the fifteenth of Nisan, the Feast of Unleavened Bread began with a SABBATH.  See Exodus 12:1-20 as well.

With an understanding that the Sabbath which was quickly approaching was the first day, the holy convocation of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, re-read these verses with that in mind:

"When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple:  he went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.  Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.  And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed" (Mt. 27:57-60).

"And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath" (Mk. 15:42).

"And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on" (Lk. 23:54).

"There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand" (Jn. 19:42).

I believe Jesus was crucified and died at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday.  I believe He was placed in the borrowed tomb before sunset, and after three twenty-four hour days, He arose after sunset Saturday (early the first day of the week - Mt. 28:1; Mk. 16:1; Lk. 24:1; Jn. 20:1). 

There are ZERO contradictions in the Bible.  They only exist in the minds of skeptics and those too lazy to study as a workman that needeth not to be ashamed!