In the mystery centers of the ancient world; Greece,Chaldean,Egyptian and Old Indian and the Hebrew, the would be initiate was placed in a trance by the hierophant and priests which lasted for 3 1/2 days. The neophyte would have gone through years of preparation of salient difficulty prior to this event.
The new born initiate would then be awakened and he would bring forth fruits of his sojourn in the spiritual world. Whole nations such as Egypt, Chaldea and Persia,.. were guided by this and the mystery center itself as they were the religious, scientific and educational centers of the ancient world.
The prophesy of the Christ Being was known in the mystery centers but the Christ being was not so clear but they were aware of His approach. The path of the Christ upon arriving on the earth was known within the mystery centers; that path being the 3 years from the Baptism of John until His Death on Golgotha.
The mystery centers represented by the gospels gave their particular views on what happened during the incarnation of the Christ being. As it is said in the John Gospel; it would be impossible to place in books the infinite happenings of the Christ Being while on the earth, the Cosmic Christ.
Fast forward to the time of Christ and what is seen in the synoptic gospels of Mathew, Mark, and Luke is the pathways of the initiate which were previously within the Temple of the Mysteries but was now being accomplished on the world stage. these men were representative initiates of individual lodges. In the Revelation of John the centers were known as the centers of the Bull,'Eagle, Lion and Man.
In essence the mystery centers were being brought to all humanity as the "fig tree" was no more.
The gospel of John who is the "risen Lazarus" is the record of a witness to the Christ Being on the Earth . John, or the "risen Lazarus" was the first Christian initiate who was initiated by Christ Jesus; the new way through Christ. this is the beginnings of the initiation of all men, so to speak, which is being accomplished within time, via the structural grace of reincarnation and karma.
The ennoblement of the human soul takes time for it is done in freedom without coercion, the Love of the Christ.
Christ Jesus died at the 3rd watch or 3:00 PM on good Friday and rose again on Easter Sunday which is two(2) nights and on the 3rd day. Consider that what is being read in the synoptic gospels is the old 3 1/2 days but not folowed exactly by christ Jesus.
Its an overlap...