I hold the view it is three whole days and three whole nights, ie partial days or nights don't count.

As such I am of the view Good Friday is in fact Good Thursday. The first day of the Passover Week, the 15 of Nissan, was a Friday, a Sabbath. Thus no one could go to Jesus' tomb until Sunday morning.

But there is still a problem. For counting whole days and nights, ie 12 hour periods, if Jesus died before Thursday evening, then three whole nights have passed: Thursday, Friday and Saturday. But only two whole mornings, namely, Friday, and Saturday. Jesus was up and about on Sunday morning, after just two days. In fact he was up "while it was still dark" [Jn 20:1], and that means he could have resurrected as early as the dusk on Saturday, and missing one whole night.

In other words Jesus could have been in the "heart of the earth" for only two whole days and nights, and what then about the remaining one more day and night? To understand that we need to review our understanding of what is a day and what is a night, ie it may not be literal.

Edit: (In response to a comment). What is Day?

I take the biblical definition of a day from the very beginning, namely, there was evening, and there was morning, and there was a day, ie a day is a period of time marked by two events, the sun going down below the horizon and the sun coming up from below the horizon, and in that order. So a time period from 5pm to 7 am the next day can be counted a day, but not from 9 am to 4 pm, or even 9 pm. The 24 hour day is a modern interpretation of a day, which is not biblical, and any small part thereof a day, even less so.

I can accept a partial day as a day if that time period contains the two events, and also by such a definition, a day will include a entire night period, namely that between sundown and sunrise, and thus 3 days and 3 nights and 3 days are identical, partial or otherwise.

Finally the Sun was not in the sky until day four and for the first three days, evenings and mornings of the Creation were not our common everyday experiences. This implies that earthly evenings and mornings, the literal "meaning", are actually shadows of the true evenings and mornings, which is not obvious to the common mind.

I hold the view it is three whole days and three whole nights, ie partial days or nights don't count.

As such I am of the view Good Friday is in fact Good Thursday. The first day of the Passover Week, the 15 of Nissan, was a Friday, a Sabbath. Thus no one could go to Jesus' tomb until Sunday morning.

But there is still a problem. For counting whole days and nights, ie 12 hour periods, if Jesus died before Thursday evening, then three whole nights have passed: Thursday, Friday and Saturday. But only two whole mornings, namely, Friday, and Saturday. Jesus was up and about on Sunday morning, after just two days. In fact he was up "while it was still dark" [Jn 20:1], and that means he could have resurrected as early as the dusk on Saturday, and missing one whole night.

In other words Jesus could have been in the "heart of the earth" for only two whole days and nights, and what then about the remaining one more day and night? To understand that we need to review our understanding of what is a day and what is a night, ie it may not be literal.

Edit: (In response to a comment). What is Day?

I take the biblical definition of a day from the very beginning, namely, there was evening, and there was morning, and there was a day, ie a day is a period of time marked by two events, the sun going down below the horizon and the sun coming up from below the horizon, and in that order. So a time period from 5pm to 7 am the next day can be counted a day, but not from 9 am to 4 pm, or even 9 pm. The 24 hour day is a modern interpretation of a day, which is not biblical, and any small part thereof a day, even less so.

I can accept a partial day as a day if that time period contains the two events, and also by such a definition, a day will include a entire night period, namely that between sundown and sunrise, and thus 3 days and 3 nights and 3 days are identical, partial or otherwise.

Finally the Sun was not in the sky until day four and for the first three days, evenings and mornings of the Creation were not our common everyday experiences. This implies that earthly evenings and mornings, the literal "meaning", are actually shadows of the true evenings and mornings, which is not obvious to the common mind.

I hold the view it is three whole days and three whole nights, ie partial days or nights don't count.

As such I am of the view Good Friday is in fact Good Thursday. The first day of the Passover Week, the 15 of Nissan, was a Friday, a Sabbath. Thus no one could go to Jesus' tomb until Sunday morning.

But there is still a problem. For counting whole days and nights, ie 12 hour periods, if Jesus died before Thursday evening, then three whole nights have passed: Thursday, Friday and Saturday. But only two whole mornings, namely, Friday, and Saturday. Jesus was up and about on Sunday morning, after just two days. In fact he was up "while it was still dark" [Jn 20:1], and that means he could have resurrected as early as the dusk on Saturday, and missing one whole night.

In other words Jesus could have been in the "heart of the earth" for only two whole days and nights, and what then about the remaining one more day and night? To understand that we need to review our understanding of what is a day and what is a night, ie it may not be literal.

I hold the view it is three whole days and three whole nights, ie partial days or nights don't count.

As such I am of the view Good Friday is in fact Good Thursday. The first day of the Passover Week, the 15 of Nissan, was a Friday, a Sabbath. Thus no one could go to Jesus' tomb until Sunday morning.

But there is still a problem. For counting whole days and nights, ie 12 hour periods, if Jesus died before Thursday evening, then three whole nights have passed: Thursday, Friday and Saturday. But only two whole mornings, namely, Friday, and Saturday. Jesus was up and about on Sunday morning, after just two days. In fact he was up "while it was still dark" [Jn 20:1], and that means he could have resurrected as early as the dusk on Saturday, and missing one whole night.

In other words Jesus could have been in the "heart of the earth" for only two whole days and nights, and what then about the remaining one more day and night? To understand that we need to review our understanding of what is a day and what is a night, ie it may not be literal.

Edit: (In response to a comment). What is Day?

I take the biblical definition of a day from the very beginning, namely, there was evening, and there was morning, and there was a day, ie a day is a period of time marked by two events, the sun going down below the horizon and the sun coming up from below the horizon, and in that order. So a time period from 5pm to 7 am the next day can be counted a day, but not from 9 am to 4 pm, or even 9 pm. The 24 hour day is a modern interpretation of a day, which is not biblical, and any small part thereof a day, even less so.

I can accept a partial day as a day if that time period contains the two events, and also by such a definition, a day will include a entire night period, namely that between sundown and sunrise, and thus 3 days and 3 nights and 3 days are identical, partial or otherwise.

Finally the Sun was not in the sky until day four and for the first three days, evenings and mornings of the Creation were not our common everyday experiences. This implies that earthly evenings and mornings, the literal "meaning", are actually shadows of the true evenings and mornings, which is not obvious to the common mind.