Timing- Easter

So something has been coming to mind in this last week. The Day of Unleavened Bread is the first day of Passover, and in Luke 22:7-8 it is written that this is also what is now called "The Last Supper." 

Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover.”

Therefore Good Friday cannot be the first Day of Passover, as it was this year, because timing it on this way puts Jesus both at the last supper and in the tomb at the same time. The timing of when Easter is celebrated seems to have been decided somewhat haphazardly hundreds of years later by committee at The Council of Nicaea, but the timing of Passover is precise, as given by God in Exodus 12. 

Exodus 12:17-18

“Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt. Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day."

In John it is written that the crucifixion ended on the Day of Preparation (Friday).

John 19:31

Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down.

John 19:42

Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.

Since no work could be done after sunset (after sunset would actually no longer be called "The Day of Preparation" either) this would mean that Jesus would be in the tomb before sunset, meaning Friday during the day could certainly be seen as "the first day." If "Good Friday" happened this year, it could not have been the 15th of April, given the timing of these events, but would rather be the 22nd of April, yesterday.

Since any part of the day or night could reasonably be counted, Friday day and night could both count as time served, Saturday day and night both count, and Sunday day and night count as well. This means that Jesus could presumably exit the tomb any time from just after sunset on Easter Sunday to just before sunrise on Monday morning, and still have Matthew 12:40 (the sign of Jonah- 3 days/3 nights) precisely fulfilled. 

"For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."

If one were to apply this precise timing to this year it would be tomorrow evening, April 24th, to Monday morning, April 25th, that Jesus would exit the tomb. For me, it definitely feels like something is happening this weekend.