Good Friday

==Memoration on Wednesday of the Holy Week ==
Some [[Baptist]] congregations,<ref>{{cite web |first=L. K. |last=Landis |url=http://www.kjbbc.com/wednesdaycrucifix.html |title=Proof for a Wednesday Crucifixion |publisher=King James Bible Baptist Church, Ladson, South Carolina |date=8 June 1998 |access-date=23 April 2014 |archive-date=22 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090822070329/http://www.kjbbc.com/wednesdaycrucifix.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> the [[Philadelphia Church of God]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=4758.3049.102.0 |title=The Resurrection Was Not on Sunday |website=thetrumpet.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090418010828/http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=4758.3049.102.0 |archive-date=18 April 2009 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> and some [[Non-denominational Christianity|non-denominational]] churches oppose the observance of Good Friday, regarding it as a so-called "[[papist]]" tradition, and instead observe the [[Crucifixion of Jesus]] on Wednesday to coincide with the Jewish sacrifice of the Passover Lamb (which some/many Christians believe is an Old Testament pointer to Jesus Christ). A Wednesday Crucifixion of Jesus allows for him to be in the tomb ("heart of the earth") for three days and three nights as he told the Pharisees he would be (Matthew 12:40), rather than two nights and a day (by [[Counting#Inclusive counting|inclusive counting]], as was the norm at that time) if he had died on a Friday.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thebereancall.org/node/5889 |title=The Cradle & the Cross (original) |publisher=thebereancall.org |date=1 December 1992 |access-date=23 April 2014 |archive-date=4 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100804072020/http://www.thebereancall.org/node/5889 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.factnet.org/discus/messages/3/19941.html |website=factnet.org |title=Cult, Cults, Abuse by Religions, Abuse Recovery Discussion & Resources, Peer-Support, Legal support |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090416103539/http://www.factnet.org/discus/messages/3/19941.html |archive-date=16 April 2009 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><!-- Preparation Day (14 [[Nisan]] on the [[Hebrew calendar]]) – which is the day before Passover (15 Nisan), instead of the Friday morning as the [[Synoptic Gospel]]s refer to the sabbath and they believe this refers to a "high sabbath" (John 19:31) which occurs on feast days, and not the ordinary weekly sabbath.{{huh?|reason=this is an ungrammatical sentence fragment, missing some words; the use of dashes vs commas is also imbalanced/malformed; see talk|date=August 2021}}-->