What is the biblical reckoning of the beginning and the ending of a day?
What does the Bible have to say about this?
In the first chapter of Genesis the day is defined as evening and morning.
A few texts in proof of sunset time.
Gen. 1:5, 8, 13, 19, 23, 31; "And the
evening and the morning were the ___ day."
Lev. 23:32 " a sabbath of rest...
from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath."Joshua 8:29;
10:26, 27; Gives hints that the day ended at evening.
Eze. 46:1, 2; "The gate of the inner court that looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened...the gate shall not be shut until
the evening."
Luke 23:54, 56; "And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on....they laid Him in the sepulchre...and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment."
24:1 "Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning,
If the Sabbath would be from daylight to daylight, then the disciples went to the tomb on the seventh day, instead of the first day, for according to John's testimony (See John 20:1) they came when it was yet dark. But John, with all the rest, claims that they came on the first day.
Mark 1:29 "they were come out of the synagogue,...1:32
And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils."
Neh. 13:19 " And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem
began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and [some] of my servants set I at the gates, [that] there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day."