Leviticus 23:10

Lev. 23:10. The sheaf was to be offered to God on the first day of the week after the Passover, on the same day that Christ rose. It was the first-fruits of all the seed sown. So Christ was "the first-fruits of them that slept." The body that dies and is buried is compared to the seed of bread, corn sown in the earth (1 Corinthians 15:36; 1 Corinthians 15:37); and Christ's resurrection in particular is compared to this (John 12:24), and the end of the world, the time of the resurrection, is represented by the harvest (Matthew 13:39). Things rising in the Spring, after all seemed to be dead in winter, is a lively image of the resurrection. This sheaf was the first-fruits of the earth that they had in the Spring; and it is to be noted that the time when this sheaf of the first-fruits was offered was not only on the same day of the week, but at same time of year, the first day of the week after the Passover, as that was.