Resurrection, Sunday: Is it really true that Yeshua was resurrected on Sunday?
Aside from all of the debates surrounding the chronology of Yeshuas frequently-called Passion Week, which are present in both evangelical Christianity and the Messianic movement, it can be legitimately challenged from the Greek text of Matthew 28:1 whether or not the Messiah was resurrected on a Sunday morning. In most versions, the text reads as, Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to look at the grave (NASU). Notably different from this is the 1901 American Standard Version, which has, Now late on the sabbath day, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher. The difference between after or late on depends how one renders the Greek preposition opse (oye), which can mean after a long time, late, or applied as late in the day, at even.[a] Did the Marys leave to go to Yeshuas tomb on Sunday morning, or late on the Sabbath day on what we wou
