Luke 23:56 And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.

Thursday was Passover, yesterday was Good Friday and tomorrow is Easter. What is today, other than the Sabbath? It is silent Saturday, a day in which nothing is written. No one preaches on the events of silent Saturday, nothing happened. Do you think it is by chance that Christ died and was laid in the grave without His body being prepared in accordance with Jewish rituals?

Death came just before sundown Friday, the beginning of the Sabbath. They had not time to lay Him in a grave, none had been prepared until the very last minute. Joseph of Arimathaea had to beg Pilate for His body. There was not enough time left to perform the rights before the Sabbath. This meant that His family would have to return to His grace on the day after the Sabbath to complete their family obligations. Someone was appointed to check the grave. That in itself is enough to rejoice. God made one of those divine appointments with man, in this case women.

Luke 24:1, 5c, 6a Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen:

I only have one more thing to say about silent Saturday. You may find it profound or just silly. Personally I find it to be true.

John 15:5 c without me ye can do nothing.

Nothing happened because Jesus wasn’t there.