7. Old Bibles Show the Sabbath Resurrection of Jesus
After the 6 clear proofs already mentioned, here is the 7th scientific proof that Jesus was resurrected on a Sabbath morning: It is a historical fact that there are many old Catholic and Protestant Bibles around the world that describe the resurrection of Jesus „on a Sabbath morning“ or „on a Saturday morning“. In total, many millions of Bibles around the world have been written and printed with this statement. Many of them are available free of charge as facsimiles or online texts (see Historical Bibles). It is obvious that the old German Catholic Bibles were particularly good and clear. The scribes knew exactly what the Latin Vulgate and the Greek text did and did not say. Thus they do not speak of Sunday or the week, but of the Sabbath or Saturday. So while "Resurrection Sunday" was preached orally in church services, the Resurrection Sabbath was found in many church Bibles in many countries. And this for over 1,800 years. The first printed book in the world (Gutenberg 1452), the first Bible printed worldwide in a national language (Mentelin 1466), the first printed Bibles in many countries and even the first Bible produced in the whole of America (Saur 1743) proclaim nothing other than the coming of the women to the tomb „on a Sabbath“ in the morning or „on a Saturday“ from the very beginning. No new doctrine is being spread here, not a sectarian doctrine, but rather ancient basic Christian knowledge that can be easily verified. Every Christian must know that God has expressed Himself extremely clearly in His Word (Bible) and has clearly named the resurrection day of Jesus with His name "Sabbath" and not once or twice, but even 7 times, in the number of perfection.
Old and new Bibles teach the resurrection of Jesus "on a Sabbath" and "on the first Sabbath":
- Greek Bibles
- Latin Bibles
- Gothic Bibles
- German Bible manuscripts
- German Bible prints 1 (before Luther)
- German Bible prints 2 (since Luther until 1599)
- German Bible prints 3 (from 1600 to 1899)
- German Bible prints 4 (since 1900)
- English Bible manuscripts
- English Bible prints 1 (until 1799)
- English Bible prints 2 (1800 to 1945)
- English Bible prints 3 (1946 to 2002)
- English Bible prints 4 (since 2003)
- Spanish Bibles
- French Bibles
- Swedish Bibles
- Czech Bibles
- Italian Bibles
- Dutch Bibles
- Slovenian Bibles
The first Bible printed worldwide in a national language (the German Mentelin Bible of 1466) shows the resurrection of Jesus „on a Saturday“ morning (an einm der sambstag). It was „early on the first Saturday“ (früe an dem ersten samsstag) of the seven Saturdays that are counted each year from Passover to Pentecost. This Catholic Bible reports that the women came to the tomb „on a Saturday morning“ and never „on the first day of the week“, nor „after the Sabbath“, nor „on a Sunday morning“. This is just one of many historical proofs that can be downloaded for free (see Historical Bibles).
"Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them"
(Eph 5:11)