Often around Easter questions will
arise in the minds of those celebrating the anniversary of Christ's death and
resurrection. Did Jesus Christ rise from the dead "on the third day"
or "after three days" according to the New Testament? Did He eat the
Passover meal or was the Last Supper held before Passover? On what day of the
week was the Crucifixion of Jesus? All of these questions, and others as well,
are related to the issue at hand...
Here are a couple of papers (free .pdf files) that I have written over the years. The short version was published (2007) as an appendix in Broadman's Harmony of the Gospels for the Holman Christian Standard Version of the Bible:
For those inquiring minds that have other questions, here is a link to a much longer .pdf with quite a few charts. This was a seminar paper that I wrote in the early 90's for a New Testament seminar on the Gospels: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B99EMvYSo6G0aFZlYjZ5M3hCSG8