Very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb, after sunrise.
yawn that market opened early
I’m still exhausted from our vigilwas it only two days ago
I really needed that sabbathwell it’s a new week of creation
let’s listen for a new wordhey you’re forgetting we’re still beloved
we’ve got all the words we needwell yeah for sure of course
but we’re still going to a tomboh yeah that’s right
I keep forgetting thatwell it’s not far now
what shall we do after
There has been much made of rising on the third day. There has been a long road trod since the Transfiguration event. All along that timeline we have heard about suffering, death, rising and third days.
Now we hear a different reference—a first day.
A third day rising has baffled character after character. It seems to have a null set that could never be factored in because there was so much resistance to the suffering and death.
When the arrest happened, no one suggested being ready to start a countdown as the suffering and death proceeded to deepen and darken. There was no anticipation of a bright-sun day.
After reminding us that the first day is not related to the rising as an event, but its proclamation, LaVerdiere2319 goes on:
Normally, the Greek expression for “the first day” should have been written with an ordinal numeral, prote (“first”), as we find it in translation. Instead what we find in Greek is a cardinal numeral, mia (“one”), making for a very awkward expression in Greek, “the day one,” instead of “the first day.”
The significance of this begins to dawn when we know that the Septuagint (Greek Hebrew scripture used during Jesus’ time) did this same number play for the first day of Creati*n (day one). This eventually connects with those who follow Jesus to have this be day one, a new creation. As per usual, the characters are not aware of this.