Holy Saturday in Bible

Christian Alexander

How can I use Logos to find Holy Saturday as an event listed in the biblical text? I did this below.

Open a Search panel
Click on the "Books" tab, and then "All Books" within that
Type "Holy Saturday" and proximity syntax NEAR "New Testament"

I only got 13 results.

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Lynden O. Williams

Try searching for Sabbath instead of saturday

MJ. Smith

Holy Saturday is a modern, Western Christian term relating to liturgical calendars. It will not appear in Biblical texts. Names for the day include:

Holy Saturday
Sabbatum Sanctum
Great and Holy Saturday
Great Sabbath
Hallelujah Saturday
Black Saturday
Easter Eve
Bright Saturday
Saturday of the Holy Light
Holy Saturday of the Pascha
and many more

The main event of the day is the harrowing of hell. The main Biblical references are probably:

[quote]Harrowing of Hell

Matthew 12:40
Matthew 16:18
Matthew 27:50–54
Mark 3:24
Acts 2:24
Acts 2:31
Ephesians 4:9
Colossians 1:18
1 Peter 3:18–19
1 Peter 4:6

Exported from Logos Bible Software, 10:23 PM March 29, 2024.

There are also several references in parabiblical (New Testament apocrypha) texts.

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CHRIST’S DESCENT INTO HELL, TEXT (Descensus Christi ad Inferos). The noncanonical text that comprises the second half of the Gospel of Nicodemus (the first half of the Gospel of Nicodemus is the Acts of Pilate, the central text of the Pilate Cycle). Christ’s Descent Into Hell was never widely authoritative in the early church period, nor could it have been based on its late date.
The text Christ’s Descent Into Hell claims Jesus descends into hell accompanied by Dismas, the penitent thief on the cross. Not only does Christ “descend,” but he enters as the king of glory to establish victory there. This “harrowing of hell” takes place between Christ’s death and resurrection. The text names the authors as Leucius and Karinus (Charinus), which may be the same Leucius Charinus to whom many of the noncanonical, apocryphal acts are often attributed.
This extrabiblical account—likely an early medieval text (fifth—sixth century; Klauck, Apocryphal Gospels, 91)—was written to supplement details only hinted at in the New Testament (1 Pet 3:19; Elliott, Apocryphal New Testament, 165).

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For further details on the literary genre and ancient parallels of Christ’s Descent Into Hell, see these articles: Descent into the Underworld, Descent into the Underworld, Critical Issues. For information on the process of canonization, see this article: Canon, New Testament.

Carrie Sinclair Wolcott, “Christ’s Descent Into Hell, Text,” in The Lexham Bible Dictionary, ed. John D. Barry et al. (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2016).

In your library an ALL search on the phrase "harrowing of hell" is probably the best search although it is probably worth trying "descent of Christ into hell" as well.