Bishop Spong on "the third day"

Hello Everyone,

        Bishop Spong (ret.) in his latest newletter speaks to the time
frame between the
burial of Jesus and his Resurrection.  The gest is - Take three days
literally, NOT.
Three days like 60% of the gospels is symbolic and spiritual.  Not
newspaper
re****ting and therefore merely physical.

            I think the three-day symbol is just that, a symbol. On
three occasions,
            Mark has Jesus predict his resurrection "after three
days." Matthew and
            Luke, both of whom have Mark in front of them as they
write, change
            Mark's word "after" to "on." "After three days" and "on
the third day"
            do not give us the same day. So there is a dancing, not
firm, quality
             to the use of the phrase "three days" even in
            the gospels themselves.  J.S. Spong

Any Christian, of any stripe, could do a lot worse than read any of
the writings
of Bishop John Spong .   Maybe start with Rescuing the Bible from
 Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture.

Muddyfeet