Jon Collins

Okay, so this is interesting.

In the earliest Jewish Messianic Jesus communities, so Israelite followers of Jesus as Messiah, Jesus rose from the dead on a Sunday.

So as the stories go, and there's some chronology issues you've got to work out between Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

But the basic shape of the story is such that he dies and he's in the tomb over the Sabbath.

So that resurrection in the empty tomb happens on Sunday.

which is in the day one of the new week.

So what happened then is you have Messianic Jewish followers of Jesus who are both observing Shabbat in the traditional way, but then all of a sudden they have Sunday, which is a hugely important day because it marks the dawn of new creation.

and the resurrection of Jesus from the dead.

So now there's two days to stop.

So now there's, well, and so it created a very blurry period.

And I could do a lot more homework here.

And anybody who wants to take a deep dive into this, there's a really helpful collection of essays by a whole host of scholars of Hebrew Bible studies

Second Temple Judaism and New Testament.

It's called From the Sabbath to the Lord's Day, a Biblical, Historical, Theological Investigation.

It's put together by a scholar named D.A.

Carson.

And what they're trying to track is, how did you get from Sabbath being on Friday night for Messianic Jews, who were all the first followers of Jesus, to later generations

thinking of the Sabbath rest as being fulfilled or honored by resting on Resurrection Day.

How did that happen?

And it didn't happen quickly.