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Unfortunately, the Douay Version and the James Moffatt Version follow the incorrect King
James punctuation -- as do the earlier versions of the New American Standard and the American
Standard.

Who Will Roll Away the Stone?

In Mark 16:1-4 we come across something that most of the "three days, three nights" advo-
cates have chosen to ignore. Notice:

And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and
Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and ANOINT him. And very
early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising
of the sun. And they said among themselves, WHO SHALL ROLE US AWAY THE
STONE FROM THE DOOR OF THE SEPULCHRE?

It is very clear from these verses that "very early on the first day of the week" they didn't
know about the guard -- they didn't know that the tomb had been sealed! WHY didn't they know?

Going now to Matthew 27:62-66 --

Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation [the day after Yeshua was
laid in the tomb would have been the Passover/weekly Sabbath], the chief priests and
Pharisees came together unto Pilate, Saying, Sir, we remember that the deceiver said,
while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. Command therefore that the sep-
ulchre be made sure, UNTIL THE THIRD DAY, lest his disciples come by night, and steal
him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be
worse than the first. Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure
as ye can. So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a
watch. ["In the end of the sabbath..."]

We see that the Pharisees went to Pilate on the Passover/weekly Sabbath day. After obtain-
ing the order from Pilate, they left immediately to post the guard at sundown that evening "lest his
disciples come by night, and steal him away."

Now, was the guard posted on the Thursday evening (assuming a Wednesday crucifixion),
or on the Sabbath before sundown? If Yeshua died on a Wednesday, and the guard was posted on
Thursday evening, one of the women would have more than likely visited the tomb on Friday and
the disciples would have received word that it was sealed. (The men probably stayed away out of
fear of being arrested). NO FURTHER ANOINTING WOULD BE POSSIBLE BECAUSE THE
TOMB WAS SEALED! It was a capital offense to break a Roman seal.

Yet Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome were NOT AWARE of
the guard -- or of the seal -- when they came to the tomb on the morning of the first day of the
week. Pilate had commanded that the tomb be "made secure until the third day." The wording in the
Greek suggest the tomb was guarded continuously -- not just during the night.

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