When was Jesus crucified?

Question

I can't understand this contradiction which I found while reading the Bible.
Mark 15:22 "and it was the third hour, and they crucified him."
John 19:14-15 "And about the sixth hour:and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King ! But they cried out ... crucify him!"
So was Lord Jesus crucified about the third or the sixth hour???

Answer 1

Sundials are not very accurate. No one had a watch.

Answer 2

"It was nine o'clock in the morning": literally , "the third hour," thus between 9 a.m. and 12 noon. Mark's chronological sequence, which may reflect liturgical or catechetical considerations rather than the precise historical sequence of events; contrast the different chronologies in the other gospels, especially John 19:14.
Resource: New American Bible, footnotes.

Answer 3

You know, I really don't have any idea how time was marked for them back then. If someone forced me to choose between the two, I would probably go with Mark's account (and timing) since the Gospel According to John is highly theological and meant more as a teaching tool than a history. But I honestly don't know for sure.

Answer 4

The question you need to ask is when where the Gospels written?

The fact that the oral history was later written in several languages probably had a big reason for the lack of continuity...not to mention that when the stories were passed from person to person via spoken word, a lot of details probably got lost in translation.

Answer 5

GOOD QUESTION:
I can't really say; all I can say ask God for the answer.(James 1:5)
Because I really don't know. If I had to assume; I would say in the morning at (third hour)9 A.M. because we have to take the majority of verses between the minority. Also note: Mark says precisely "it was the third hour" to contrast to John "about the sixth hour"; so in my opinion John was unsure of what time it was. But it could be between 9 A.M. to 12 P.M. like Robert L says; but the answer is very puzzling to me because that would be in the afternoon time. You have to take the whole Bible in context of the issue at hand; that's why it's difficult to say. I would go with my original answer til I know otherwise; the majority of verses. [The sequence of events]
{Matt.27:32; Mark 15:21; Luke 23:26 = Cyrenian}
{Matt.27:34,37-39; Mark 15:26-27,29,36; Luke 23:32-33,36,38-39; John 19:19-20,29}
Matt.27:45; Mark 15:33; Luke 23:44 tells us from the sixth hour to the ninth hour was darkness.


***JESUS DIED WEDNESDAY APRIL 14, 31AD (3. P.M.)

A good foundation (1Tim.6:19) has solid ground evidence. The foundation should include 2Tim.3:16; Isaiah 28:9-10; 2Peter 1:19-21; 1Thess.5:20-21 & Ephes.5:9-10,13. To understand deeply--you must use these websites:
http://www.bbmhp.org/visaids/nt/crucweek.html
http://www.lcg.org/cgi-bin/tw/magazine/tw-mag.cgi?category=Magazine29&item=1104248897
http://community.webshots.com/photo/370320470/2504347540049373547CSHBBj

If you read Daniel 9:27; it says "he died in the middle of the week"; that would be Wednesday. This is followed by "3 days & 3 nights" = Matthew 12:40 which equals 1-24hr.day x 3days equals 72hrs. in grave. Next the Bible tells us it would be "after 3days and "not before = Matt.27:63-64 and Mark 8:31. It tells us in three days (John 2:19-21) and not after. The Bible also reminds us a day is 12hrs. not including the night(John 11:9-10). Remember also Gen.1:5 and Lev.23:32 tells us "evening to evening" is considered to be a day.

HEBREW CALENDAR-month of Abib or Nisan (APRIL 31AD)

Wednesday 14
Lord's Supper--Tues.Even
Put in grave Wed.Even
LEV.23:5--[14TH DAY=PASSOVER]
DAN.9:27--["DIED IN MIDST OF WEEK"]
JOHN 13:1; 18:39--[FEAST OF PASSOVER]
JOHN 19:14,31--[PREPARATION OF PASSOVER; NEXT DAY WAS A SABBATH HIGH DAY]
LUKE 22:13--[PASSOVER]
MATT.27:57--[EVENING CAME AND JOSEPH BEGGED THE BODY OF JESUS]
MARK 14:12; 15:42--[PREPARE TO EAT PASSOVER; THE DAY BEFORE THE SABBATH]]
LUKE 23:54--[SABBATH DREW ON]

Dictionary: Drew=to pull or drag. On=over & in contact with.

Thursday 15
Wed.Even= 1night
Thurs.Even=1day
Annual Sabbath
Feast of Unleavened Bread
NO WORK!
EXODUS 13:3,4,6,7--[NO LEAVENED BREAD; MONTH OF ABIB; ONLY EAT UNLEAVENED BREAD FOR 7 DAYS]
LEVITICUS 23:6-7--[15TH DAY; HOLY CONVOCATION]
MATT.27:63-64--[AFTER 3 DAYS]
**CLUE = MATT.26:5 --[NOT ON THE FEAST DAY]
ISAIAH 66:23

Friday 16
THURS. EVEN= 1 NIGHT
FRIDAY EVEN = 1DAY
PREPARATION DAY
MARK 16:1--[probably Thurs.Even--BOUGHT SPICES AFTER SABBATH]
LUKE 23:56--[PREPARED SPICES BEFORE WEEKLY SABBATH]
**NOTES--YOU HAVE TO BUY BEFORE YOU CAN PREPARE! ALSO IT TAKES ALL DAY TO PREPARE SPICES!

Saturday 17
FRIDAY EVEN=1 NIGHT
SAT.EVEN= JESUS ROSE! = 1 DAY
WEEKLY SABBATH
"SEVENTH DAY"= 7TH DAY
NO WORK!
GEN.2:2
EXOD.20:8-11
LEV.23:3
HEB.3:18-19; 4:1-11
MARK 2:27-28
REV.14:7,12
**NOTES= SABBATH IN ENCYCLOPAEDIA AMERICANA, VOL.24, PP.68-69 AND/OR DICTIONARY.

Sunday 18
SAT.EVEN
SUN.EVEN
"FIRST DAY"= 1ST DAY
GENESIS 1:5
MATT.28:1,6,13
MARK 16:6,9
LUKE 24:1,3,6
JOHN 20:1,19
**NOTE: COULDN'T OF BOUGHT BECAUSE MARY & MARY MAGDALENE WENT TO THE GRAVE AFTER THE SABBATH.
THE NEW AMERICAN ROGET'S COLLEGE THESAURUS--
DAWN=DARK, EVENING, TWILIGHT, ETC.

Now I know this is true because the MAJORITY(Matt.7:13) is always wrong. Also there's many clues that it wasn't a Friday crucifixion and a Sunday resurrection; look at 2Tim.2:18. But you will point out Mark 16:9 which says "Now when Jesus was risen[the perfect tense is correct here--he was already risen] early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene." Now the original Greek didn't have no punctuation. If the King James translators put a comma after the word "risen" and not after "week", this would make complete sense. The Centenary Translation renders it this way: "Now after his resurrection, early on the first day of the week he appeared first to Mary Magdalene."

Answer 6

To the ancients, time was not reckoned as closely as we do today. To them, the third or sixth hour was close enough.

Answer 7

He died 2006 years ago,hence 2006 ad

Answer 8

Jesus wasn't crusified!

Funny thing if you had one book and not a thousand books that can tell you one straight and direct answer......

Answer 9

It was prolly the day they hung him on the cross!!!!!!!! :)