Jesus the Messiah or Christ was killed on Passover day at about the 9th hour as counted by the Romans Luk 23:44-46.  The ninth hour corresponds to 3 pm by our reckoning.  The body was immediately taken and placed in a tomb, Luk 23:50-54; so that this could be accomplished before the beginning of the First Day of Unleavened Bread.  The first day being an annual Sabbath and Holy Day, begining at sunset Luk 23:55-56.  The Passover is also the preparation day for this Holy Day beginning the Feast of Unleavened Bread, therefore the body was entombed before that sunset which would begin that Holyday John 19:31-42.

Jesus said that the only sign of His Messiahship was that He would be in the grave for three days and nights Mat 12:40.  Since He would be entombed for three days and nights and since He was buried shortly before sunset.  He must be resurrected and come out of His tomb just before sunset.  The fact that those who came to the tomb on the morning of the first day of the week found that He was already risen; is a clear indication that the scripture had been fulfilled; and that He had risen the previous evening, just before sunset, exactly three days and three nights after He was buried. 

As a slight aside here;  The first day of the week being Sunday was the day AFTER the Sabbath and their coming to the tomb to re-wrap the body clearly indicates that they regarded Sunday as a COMMON WORK DAY.  They were not willing to do this on the Sabbath but were willing to work on Sunday.  Jesus did NOT rise on Sunday, but was already raised and Sunday was considered a COMMON WORK DAY by His disciples.  The Sabbath as observed and taught by Jesus Christ was the seventh day, now called Saturday and was not Sunday.

To find the day that Jesus died it is only necessary to count back, three days and three nights from the time of His resurrection.  Since He rose about six or seven pm on Saturday evening, counting back would place His burial at about six or seven pm on the previous Wednesday and we know that He died about three pm on that day. He was killed on Passover and that evening began the annual Sabbath of the First Day of Unleavened Bread, which fell on Thursday that year.  The next day, Friday was the preparation day for the weekly Sabbath; which falls on Saturday.  His disciples went to the tomb on the next available COMMON WORK DAY Sunday Luk 24:1 to re-wrap the body and found that He was ALREADY RISEN.  It is a fact that in 31 AD the Passover fell on a Wednesday.  This is true according to BOTH the Biblical Calendar, based on NEW MOON observation and also the Rabbinic Calendar in use by some today.  PLease see our Biblical Calendar page for a good understanding of the Calendar given to us by God. For the year of Christ's sacrificial death, Please visit our 70 Weeks Prophecy page.

So we find in the scripture that Jesus was already risen on Sunday morning and since He had been buried in the afternoon the resurrection had to have occurred on Saturday afternoon.  We find that counting back three days and nights from late Saturday afternoon, He was buried on Wednesday afternoon and that He died  at about three pm Wednesday afternoon.  We also find that Sunday was a COMMON WORK DAY and not a Sabbath.  These facts are not speculation or guesses, they are Holy Scripture.