Peace004 – When was Jesus crucified? Was it on 14th of the month or another day?

Question

According to the Holy Bible, Jesus celebrated Passover with His disciples by eating the traditional evening meal called Seder. This happened on the 14th of the first month of the religious calendar. After the meal, they went to the Garden of Gethsemane. Here, Jesus was arrested, then taken to Annas, to Caiaphas, and in the morning, to Pontius Pilate.

The 14th is Preparation Day for the high day on the 15th which is the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. If Jesus was crucified on the 14th and was in the tomb for three days and three nights, He must have resurrected on the 18th. Add 40 days, He must have ascended to Heaven on the 43rd day from crucifixion. But Pentecost is 50 days from Passover. The disciples therefore waited for 7 days for the coming of the Holy Spirit. Is that logical?

To [e-mail] -
Why do you say that "in all probability Jesus was crucified on a Thursday?"

To shirleykins,
You are right that Joshua and his men marched around the city of Jericho for seven days, but regarding the flood during Noah's time, the downpour was for forty days and forty nights.

To HannahJPaul - Jesus said in Matthew 12:39-40 that the only sign that will be given is the sign of the prophet Jonah who was inside the whale's belly for three days and three nights. This was how long he would be in the heart of the earth.

Answer 1

You have touched upon something that goes against Church teachings, even though it is correct.
in all probability Jesus was crucifeid on a Thursday.

Answer 2

Bill is on the right track. The chronology of the passover in those days was a muddled mass based on who you talk to at the time. The supplied link below will show you the dilema in detail. spur4eight also shows how the Roman account could be chronicled. Remember that the four gospels were for four different audiences. Think of it as choosing a language soundtrack on a DVD. In Mark 15:42, it refers to "...the day before the sabbath." The Jews had other sabbaths in addition to the weekly shabbat (Saturday). In addition to the weekly sabbaths, there were seven "high sabbaths" each year, and the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the 15th of Nisan, was one of them.4 Further, Matthew 28:1 should read, "At the end of the sabbaths ," (which is plural in the Greek), implying there was a plurality of sabbaths that week. If Passover, the 14th of Nisan, fell earlier in the week, the 15th could have been any day prior to Saturday, the weekly sabbath. "When the sabbaths were past" would, of course, be Sunday (actually, Saturday after sundown), in accordance to the Feast of First Fruits. (Some hold to a Thursday crucifixion on a similar basis.) Below is a very interesting article that shows that even the Hebrew calendars do not agree. So between the Roman timeline and the two Hebrew observance times, and the above... you may realize that discrepancy in John could reflect more accuracy rather than inaccuracy. This exactly the same situation as your link, inin_jomo, what you see as a contridiction or inaccuracy is actually MORE information for a 3D model of the Messiah.

Answer 3

He was crucified on a Thursday. Remember there are some weeks that have two Sabbaths. The Festival of Unleavened Bread was a special Sabbath and therefore they had to bury him before sundown which is the beginning of thee new day for Jews. So Jesus went in Thursday evening before The Friday Festival began. Hence Fri Sat Sun evening. Three nights and days. So yes on the 14th.
this can all be verified at gracethrufaith.com with a better explanation.
God Bless!

Answer 4

First, no one knows when "Jesus" was crucified.
Second, the story is questionable as the Jews would not have been able to take Jesus, another Jew, to Pontius Pilate as to have done so would have made them ritually unclean, as well as it would have broken other religious rules of behavior.
Finally, Christians and not Jews set the dates up for when different event are celebrated in their religious system.

If you are a christian, don't worry, just celebrate, as if you try to figure it all out it will unravel like a loose ball of yarn. Too much education is a sure fire way to loose your faith. Too much thinking is the seond most dangerous thing to do if one is religious.

Pentacost is the day the holy spirit supposedly descended upon the apostles and disciples when they were hiding in the upper room. After which they had a great rivial meeting.

You seem to be confusing the assumption with pentacosst.

You are correct in that virtually nthing is logical in religion.

May it all be well with you.

Answer 5

More important than the date is what he said about it. He certainly didn't see it as "Good News" for anybody.

The Original good news is the Kingdom Gospel about light coming into the world, not the Pauline Gospel we hear so often these days. He said the light will be with you just a little while longer.

Find the difference between these two gospels...

Fun free book on this... Chapter 19, Gospel Enigma.

Answer 6

Some say Jesus was dead for a period of seventy-two hours, three full days and three full nights, and base this on the words of Jesus at Matthew 12:40: “For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish three days and three nights, so the Son of man will be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.” But the conclusion that this means a period of seventy-two hours is in conflict with the scriptures which say he was raised “on the third day,” not the fourth. Obviously, they are mistaken. Compare Acts 10:39, 40.

In the Bible “three days” does not necessarily mean a full seventy-two-hour period. An example is found at 1 Kings 12:5, 12. King Rehoboam said to the people: “Go away for three days and return to me.” Acting in harmony with his command, would they come back on the third day or the fourth? If they understood his command to mean come back after three full days, they would show up on the fourth day. But they did not understand it that way and neither did the king mean it that way. Verse 12 says: “And Jeroboam and all the people proceeded to come to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had spoken, saying, ‘Return to me on the third day.’” So they returned after parts of three days had elapsed: the first being the day the king sent them away, the second being the next day, and the third being the day on which they returned to the king. See also Genesis 40:13, 20; 42:17, 18; Esther 4:15, 16; 5:1.

Jesus himself explained his statement, both before his death and following his resurrection. After he stated what we read at Matthew 12:40, Jesus later explained: “The Son of man is destined to be betrayed into men’s hands, and they will kill him, and the third day he will be raised up.” Following his resurrection he confirmed it: “In this way it is written that the Christ would suffer and rise from among the dead on the third day.” Matt. 17:22, 23; Luke 24:46.

So the Bible shows that Jesus was in the tomb “parts of three days.” He died on Friday afternoon (Nisan 14), the day before the Jewish sabbath. (Matt. 27:45-50; John 19:31) He rose from the dead on the first day of the Jewish week, or Sunday morning. (John 20:1) So he was in the grave part of Friday, all day Saturday, and was raised early on Sunday.

According to the Jewish festivals, Nisan 14 (Passover) was a sabbath. So was Nisan 15 and on Nisan 16 the firstfruits of the barley harvest were presented. Fifty days later, on Sivan 6, the Jews celebrated the festival of weeks, also called Pentecost.

Jesus was put to death on Nisan 14, of the year 33 C.E. This is in agreement with his being the passover sacrifice. Jesus was resurrected on Nisan 16, the day of the offering of the barley sheaf by the high priest. The Festival of Weeks, or Pentecost, was celebrated on the sixth day of Sivan, accompanied by the offering of the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, on the 50th day after the offering of the firstfruits of the barley harvest. (Ex 34:22; Le 23:15-21) It was on this sixth day of Sivan, in the year 33 C.E., that the holy spirit was poured out on the group of about 120 meeting in the upper room at Jerusalem. From the crowds gathered at the city for the feast came the 3,000 persons who were baptized on that day. Acts 1:15; 2:1-42.

Hannah J Paul

Answer 7

There was no accurate news or event reporting at that time.
Most of the contents of the Bible were written at least a generation after the event. Referred to the current Gregorian calendar, your guess is as good as anybody's guess. The exact date is also irrelevant to one's salvation prospects.

Answer 8

Logical by the modern calendar, but the Hebrew calendar counted the day starts from Sundown, i.e. Sundown Friday to sundown Saturday is one day, or any portion of said time period.

Answer 9

Remember the fall of Jericho? The coming the rain for the Flood? Seven-day waits seem kind of standard. Thanks for pointing it out!

Answer 10

It was on the 6th day of the 6th Month.