John 20:16 Yahusha said to her, “Miriam!” She turned and said to Him in Hebrew, Rabboni! (which means, Teacher).
John 20:17 Yahusha said to her, “Touch Me not, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My El and your El.’”
In the above verses we see Yahusha telling Mariyam not to touch him for he has not yet ascended to the Father.
John 20:19 So when it was evening on that day, the first of the Shabbats, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Yahushua came and stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
John 20:20 And when He had said this, He showed them both His hands and His side. The disciples then rejoiced when they saw the Master.
The same evening on that day he showed his disciples/talmidim his hands and his side.
Is there a contradiction? Many people do not understand this because they are disconnected from the Abary roots. We must look at Torah to understand why this happened. Scriptures are not in a vacuum. There is plenty of evidence and only a spiritual vs spiritual comparison will bring out the beauty of the covenant Yahuah has with his people.
The first thing we must look at what day was it?
It was the first of the Shabbats, and when Yahusha met Mariyam it was still dark. Please read John 20:1
John 20:1 Now on the first of the Shabbats Miriam Magdalene came early to the tomb, while it was still dark, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.
This happened while it was still dark…
It was the same evening (verse 19 of John 20) i.e. the first of the Shabbats when he showed his disciples his hands and his side.
What is the significance of the first of the Shabbats? Why does it say first/akhad Shabbat?
The passage should be correctly translated as Acts 2:1 When the day of Shabat Shabut (Pentecost) was full, they were all together one.
This was 49 days exactly from ‘Firstfruits’
Lev 23:15 You shall count for yourselves from the morrow after the Shabbat, from the day when you brought in the sheaf of the wave offering; they shall be seven/shaba Shabbats/שַׁבָּת
Ex 34:22 You shall celebrate the Feast of Shabat/H7620, the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
The same feast/chag ‘Shabat/Shabut’ called ‘Pentecost’ is written in Ex 34:22 with the spelling שבעת
Whereas in Lev 23:15 the counting from the ‘firstfruits’ as seven sabbaths is listed.
John 20:1 Now on the first of the Shabbats Miriam Magdalene came early to the tomb, while it was still dark, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.
The day Mashiyach rose from the day was the first of the Seven Shabbats leading to Shabut/Pentecost because there was a counting of seven shabbats from Firstfruits to Shabut/Pentecost. That’s why we see Yahuchanan/John showing us the count as the ‘first of the Shabbats’.
The chart below gives a description of the succession of the four feasts Pesach (Passover), Matzot (Unleavened Bread), Bakar (Firstfruits) & Shabut/Shavout (Pentecost).
If you notice on the chart on the 14th day of the first new moon is Pesach (Passover).
Lev 23:5‘In the first new moon, on the fourteenth day of the new moon, between the evenings, is the Pĕsaḥ/Passover to יהוה.
Yahusha was crucified on Pesach and he is our Pesach lamb.
1Co 5:7 Therefore cleanse out the old leaven, so that you are a new lump, as you are unleavened. For also Mashiyach our Passover was offered for us.
1Co 5:8 So then let us observe the festival, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
The next day was a high Shabbat of the Unleavened bread on which a solemn rest was pronounced in the Torah of Masha.
John 19:31 Therefore, since it was the Preparation/arab Shabbat, that the bodies should not remain on the stake on the Sabbath – for that Sabbath was a high one – the Yehuḏim asked Pilate to have their legs broken, and that they be taken away.
They translated the word ‘arab’ as ‘Preparation’ because the Yahudi’s had to ensure that they had to remove all ‘leaven’ from their dwellings before the feast of Matzot/Unleavened bread began. Little did they know that as stated in 1 Corin 5:7-8 Mashiyach is our Pesach/Passover lamb who was offered for us and the call is to observe the feast with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Arab: The word ‘arab’ means to ‘exchange/barter/mix’
The word usage as ‘arab Shabbat’ shows a deep spiritual meaning here because the physical Shabbat was being exchanged/bartered for the spiritual who is Mashiyach himself. HalalUYah.
John 19:14 Now it was the preparation/arab Passover/Pescah; it was about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, Behold, your King!
The same word ‘arab’ is used before Pesach/Passover which shows us the exchange/barter for the true lamb of Alahym our Yahusha ha Mashiyach against a literal lamb/sheep/heifer/bull offering. Again, here they translated the word ‘arab’ as ‘Preparation’ as the Yahudi’s had to select a lamb without blemish, unspotted, perfect for the offering. Our unblemished, unspotted and perfect lamb is Yahusha ha Mashiyach who gave himself for us.
Pesach also means ‘lame/hop’
The spiritual picture is also of the exchange for a perfect lamb who is Yahusha our Master for us the lame/hopping ones.
Coming back to John 19:31
John 19:31 Therefore, since it was the arab Shabbat, that the bodies should not remain on the stake on the Sabbath – for that Sabbath was a high one – the Yehuḏim asked Pilate to have their legs broken, and that they be taken away.
They rested according to the commandment on the high Shabbat of the Unleavened bread
Luke 23:55 And the women who had come with Him from Galil followed after, and saw the tomb and how His body was laid. 56 And having returned, they prepared spices and perfumes. And they rested on the Sabbath according to the command.
Lev 23:6 ‘And on the fifteenth day of this new moon is the Festival of Matzot/Unleavened Bread to יהוה – seven days you eat unleavened bread. 7 ‘On the first day you have a set-apart gathering, you do no servile work. 8 ‘And you shall bring an offering made by fire to יהוה for seven days. On the seventh day is a set-apart gathering, you do no servile work.’”
The fourteenth day sundown to fifteenth day sundown is the high Shabbat of Unleavened bread and twenty first sundown to twenty second sundown end of the feast of Unleavened bread a high Shabbat.
Yahusha is the Firstfruits/bakar and the feast of firstfruits falls exactly 3 days after Pesach and on the day he rose from the dead in the week of the feast of Unleavened bread. i.e. after 16th evening was Firstfruits.
Col 1:15 He (Yahusha) is the image of the invisible the Elohim, the Firstfruits/bakur of all creation.
Col 1:18 He is the head of the body, the assembly; who is the beginning/rashiyath, the Firstfruits/bakur from the dead, so that He might have the preeminence in everything.
We are kind of Firstfruits of his creatures:
Rom 8:23 And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits/bakuray of the Ruach/Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.
Jam 1:18 Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first/rashaiyth fruits/bakuray among His creatures.
Counting 49 days from firstfruits is Shavout/Pentecost...we won't go that far but now straight to the main text…
Lev 23:11‘ And he shall wave the sheaf before יהוה, for your acceptance. On the morrow after the Sabbath the priest waves it. 12 ‘And on that day when you wave the sheaf, you shall prepare a ban/son lamb a year old, a perfect one, as an ascending offering to יהוה,
If Yahusha was impaled on Wednesday on Pesach/Passover, at sundown the high Shabbat would begin i.e. Wednesday sundown to Thursday sundown. The morrow after the high Shabbat would be Thursday evening at sundown to Friday evening at sundown. The priest would have to offer the sheaf and the he/ban/son lamb as an ascending offering to Yahuah but it’s clearly evident from the text that Yahuchanan/John uses in John 20:1 Now on the first of the Shabbats…...
Le 23:15 ¶ And you shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven/shaba H7651 sabbaths/shabatut H7676 shall be complete:
The counting of 7 X 7 begins from the first of the Sabbats and ends on a Shabbat.
There was a waiting period so that all could bring in their offerings to offer to Yahuah of their sheaf as well as the ban/son lamb of the first year as an ascending offering....
Lev 23:14 ‘And you do not eat bread or roasted grain or fresh grain until the same day that you have brought an offering to your Elohim – a law forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
The above verse shows they couldn't eat bread or roasted grain or fresh grain until the day they brought an offering to Alahym
John 20:1 Now on the first of the Shabbats Miriam Magdalene came early to the tomb, WHILE IT WAS STILL DARK, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.
The first/one (akhad) of the Shabbats is to be understood as a normal weekly Shabbat and not a high Shabbat.
Why did Yahusha ask Mariyam not to touch him for he has not yet ascended to the Father?
It's because it's on this very same day the priest would waive the sheaf before Yahuah and prepare a ban/son lamb as an ascending offering to Yahuah. Mariyam was with him while it was still dark and the sheaf and ban/son lamb was yet to be offered to Yahuah during the course of the day.
John 20:19 So when it was evening on that day, the first of the Shabbats, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Yahusha came and stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.” John 20:20 And when He had said this, He showed them both His hands and His side. The disciples then rejoiced when they saw the Master.
There is no contradiction in scripture ...the above verse shows it was evening on that day, on the first of the Shabbats and Yahusha asked them to touch his side and his wounds in his hands because during the course of the day the Torah was fulfilled of the sheaf and the ban/son lamb offering to Yahuah by the priest, The Shabbat was still on, so Yahusha may have made his appearance to them before sundown as at sundown the Sabbat ends, also it says after 8 days he made his appearance again to Thoma as he was unbelieving and 8 days from Shabbat would still be a Shabbat counting the Shabbat day when he first appeared to his disciples to touch his wounds and side.
John 20:26 After eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Yahusha came, the doors having been shut, and stood in their midst and said, “Peace be with you.”
Without connection to the covenant Yahuah made with Yasharal one is lost and confused and can never understand these things.
Moreover, if you understand the counting of a jubilee year, the jubilee year was always 7 x 7 =49 and the 50th year was a jubilee year i.e. 49 + 1
Similarly, the counting to Shavuot was 7 x 7 =49 and the 50th day was Shavuot/Pentecost. Here is the proof:
Lev 23:15 You shall count for yourselves from the morrow after the Shabbat, from the day when you brought in the sheaf of the wave offering; they shall be seven complete Shabbats. Lev 23:16 Until the morrow after the seventh Shabbat, you shall count the fifty days; then you shall present a new grain offering to Yahuah.
If you count the 7 x 7 from the morrow of the high Shabbat i.e. on a Friday then you would land up on the 50th day as being the regular weekly Shabbat. But notice what Lev 23:16 says …. Until the morrow after the seventh Shabbat, you shall count the fifty days; which shows the 50th day as being the day of Shavuot which is the next day after the seventh Shabbat.
We have Luke recording Acts 2:1 When the Shabat Shabuot (Pentecost) was FULL/MALAT H4402, they were all together in one place.
Malat: Malat comes from the root word mal which means speak/word and has the root word ‘malah’ which means fruitfullness.
Malah: H4395 מְלֵאָה
Feminine of H4392; something fulfilled, that is, abundance (of produce): - (first of ripe) fruit, fulness.
The day of Shabat Shabuot was to its fullest i.e. 50th day.
Lev 23:16 Until the morrow after the seventh Shabbat, you shall count the fifty days; then you shall present a new grain offering to Yahuah.
Lev 23:17 You shall bring in from your dwelling places two loaves of bread for a wave offering, made of two-tenths of an ephah; they shall be of a fine flour, baked with leaven/khamats as first fruits/bakuryam to Yahuah
Lev 23:18 Along with the bread you shall present seven one year old male lambs without blemish, and one bull of the herd and two rams; they shall be a burnt offering to Yahuah, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, an fire offering of a soothing aroma to Yahuah.
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What was the significance of the loaves which were offered on Shavuot?
Lev 23 v17 Two loaves of bread made of fine flour and made of two tenths (one tenth for one loaf plus one tenth for another loaf) and these loaves were to be baked with leaven and they were to be waived before Yahuah. The testimony of the Torah of the leaven in the loaves shows the loaves represents us and the waive offering was a reminder to Yahuah to accept us as firstfruit/bakar in Yahusha ha Mashiyach. Yahusha the Firstfruits and we kind of Firstfruits of his creatures. Torah testified he will be raised and we will be raised in him and be transformed into his likeness on the 50th day just like the jubilee.
Acts 1:2 until the day when He was taken up to heaven, after He had by the Ruach ha Qodesh given orders to the emissaries whom He had chosen.
Acts 1:3 To these He also presented Himself alive after His suffering, by many convincing proofs, and feared/yara H3372 of them forty days and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of the Elohim.
Acts 1:12 Then they returned to Yerushalam from the mount called Olivet, which is near Yerushalam, journeying in the heat /tachum on Shabbat
Out of the 50 days, Yahusha was with his talmidim/believers for 42 days i.e. 6 Shabbats as Luke records they journeyed back on Shabbat which shows Yahusha was taken up to heaven on a Shabbat.
In Acts 1:12 the translators left out translating the word ‘tachum’ because they don’t understand what this word means. ‘Tach’ means ‘divide’ and ‘khum’ H2345 means ‘black’ as wood is burnt. It was probably the afternoon (the dividing of the day) when it is the hottest when they journeyed back on Shabbat after Yahusha was taken up from them. All translations omit this word.
The Abary word ‘yara’ H3372 has been translated as ‘seen’ but this word means ‘feared/afraid/reverenced/’, with the correct translation of the verse it makes a huge difference because Luke was recording the dread/fear of the talmidim as the scriptures from Torah were being opened to them right before their eyes after Yahusha’s resurrection while the fact was Yahusha was 42 days i.e. 6 Shabbats with his disciples. Exactly after 7 days was the last Shabbat and the morrow of that Shabbat was Shabut Shabuot. There is no contradiction in scriptures, it’s the translators who make the confusion and obviously without the Ruach one cannot understand the scriptures.
In conclusion Yahusha died on the 14th Day of the first month which was a Wednesday when the Pesach began on the 13th which was a Tuesday at sundown and on 14th a Wednesday at sundown began the high Shabbat which ended on the 15th at sundown. The feast of Firstfruits was exactly on the 3rd day after Pesach but the priests would always wait until the Shabbat to offer the firsfruits. You can check any Jewish calendar, they celebrate Firstfruits on a Gregorian calendar which falls on a Sunday but in reality, the feast of Firstfruits falls on a Shabbat and not on a pagan Roman calendar of a Sunday. No matter on which day Pesach falls on they would always wait until the Shabbat to offer the Firstfruits.
John 7:22 “For this reason Moshe has given you circumcision (not because it is from Moshe, but from the fathers), and on the Shabbat you circumcise a man.”
John 7:23 “If a man receives circumcision on the Shabbat so that the Law of Moshe shall not be broken, are you angry with Me because I made an entire man well on the Shabbat?”
The Torah stated that on the eighth day of the male child’s birth the flesh of his foreskin needed to be circumcised but the parents of the child would wait until the Shabbat for their child to be circumcised
Lev12:3 On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
We need to get back to the right perspective to compare spiritual things with spiritual to see how Mashiyach fulfilled Torah as he said ‘’Till heaven and earth pass not one serif or kotz of a yod will pass away from Torah till all be fulfilled’’ Matt 5:18
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