Why it is impossible that Jesus died on a Friday

It is of popular belief that Jesus died on a Friday, this is because people only take into account one Sabbath day and assume that when the gospels say there is a Sabbath the day after Christs death they assume it is the weekly Sabbath. But it is important to remember there were other Sabbath days to include which is similar to us having public holidays throughout the year. During the Passover week there are some special Sabbaths that can occur on any day of the week, there was one special Sabbath that always occurred on the 15^th of Nisan which is the first day of the feast of unleavened bread. In the year of 32AD it was back to back meaning that the special sabbath fell on a Friday before the weekly Sabbath which makes sense why Matthew ch 28: v1 uses the term Sabbath in its plural form if you look at it in its Greek form. The English translation causes confusion because it is written in a singular form. What majority of Christians can at least agree with is that Jesus rose on a Sunday, the first day of the week. We know this because of the gospel accounts which all agree with each other. Mark chapter 16 verse 9a says Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene,

Now what’s also interesting about the fact that he rose on the first day of the week was that it was the wave Sheaf offering which is part of the feast of harvest. This ceremony always occurs after the weekly Sabbath during the same week as the Passover, hence the first day of the week.
This ceremony was the waving of the first sheaf of grain to be accepted by God. More instructions for this ceremony are detailed in Leviticus 23:10-14. No one was to eat any of the grain of the harvest until the first sheaf of the harvest was brought to the priest, who in turn waved it before God.
This first sheaf of grain was called the “firstfruits” (Leviticus 23:10). It was the firstfruits of the barley harvest, the first part of the grain harvest. Interestingly 1 Corinthians ch 15: v20 says 20 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
Here we see Corinthians making a connection with Christs resurrection to the feast of harvest. Christ presented himself as the very first grain offering known as firstfruits. After the firstfruits is offered we know there is another harvest to come this is when Christ will harvest the earth and reap all of his elect children from the earth who will receive a physical resurrection and be clothed with a heavenly body.

Moving on in the timeline we look for other facts and another fact that Christians agree on is that Jesus died on Nisan 14th which is the first month on the Jewish calendar. It is also the day of Passover. As to what day that fell on in the year of Christs death is debated, but I believe it is a Thursday and I will demonstrate why I believe this is the only possible answer.
Matt 12: 40 ⁴⁰ For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Now given that Jesus rose on a Sunday we can work backwards from this point. There is only one day that works with what’s been given to us and we must also have an understanding of the Jewish days which began at sundown and finished at sundown as opposed to midnight for us. And a partial day for the Jews counted as a full day. So to include 3 days and 3 nights we must start before Sunday sunrise to avoid the problem of falling short 1 night or adding a 4^th day and including 3 nights, we end up with a Thursday crucifixion that fits the puzzle.

We can also affirm it was a Thursday because the scriptures says in John 12 from verse 11 Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.
12 The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. 13 So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!” 14 And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written,

15 “Fear not, daughter of Zion;
behold, your king is coming,
sitting on a donkey’s colt!”

So if we count 6 days before Thursday remembering that Jews would include Thursday as one day since they count any part of a day as 1 day. We can work out Jesus was in Bethany on Saturday Nisan 9 and that Jesus brought Lazarus back from the dead. The next day Nisan 10 Jesus entered Jerusalem also known as Palm Sunday, Nisan 10 was also a significant day for it was the day that the Jews would select a lamb for their family that would be sacrificed on Passover day Nisan 14. Jesus was the symbolic fulfilment of being the chosen lamb for sacrifice for Passover. This is why Jesus gets the name Lamb of God. Because he is the symbolic fulfilment of it. 1 Corinthians 5:7b says For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
Although Christ is called our Passover lamb there is greater symbolism that happened on that day. We know that Jesus was crucified at 9am [Mark 15:25 And it was the third hour when they crucified him.] and was pronounced dead at 3pm.

What I have noticed is that the Passover lamb was sacrificed at twilight so it doesn’t match up perfectly to the timing that Jesus was crucified however there were other sacrifices made that same day. There was the perpetual sacrifice offered in the temple morning and twilight Exodus 29:³⁸ “Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day regularly. ³⁹ One lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight.
But something we must consider is that they couldn’t perform 2 sacrifices at twilight so it is my assumption that they had to sacrifice the perpetual offering earlier than twilight to allow room for the Passover lamb to be sacrificed also. It is said to have been sacrificed at 3pm that day this is the hour that Christ drew is last breath and died. We can also draw the conclusion that Christ is the fulfilment of the perpetual sacrifice, dying once for all.

Hopefully this all makes sense and why Jesus death had to be a Thursday and not Friday.