Of course, there are a lot of detailed arguments that I haven't taken space to deal with here. This allows us to narrow down the time of Jesus' death to a very specific point in history: around 3:00 p.m on Friday, April 3, A.D. "The ninth hour" is what we, today, would refer to as 3:00 p.m. Matthew, Mark, and Luke each record that Jesus died about "the ninth hour" ( Matthew 27:45-50, Mark 15:34-37, Luke 23:44-46). 29-and the next year's Passover to accomodate a ministry of at least two years.Īs a result, the traditional date of Jesus' death-Friday, April 3, A.D.
There is not enough time between the fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar-A.D. If he says, "We're celebrating Passover today," and it's a day earlier than most people, they'd just go with that. (Note that he made other modifications to the ceremony, such as instituting the Eucharist in the midst of it.) I mean, they were already convinced he was the Messiah and the Son of God. It's also possible that Jesus just advanced the date of the Passover celebration for him and his disciples. For example, some have suggested that Jesus and his disciples used a different calendar than the Jewish authorities, and we know that there were different calendars in use in first century Judaism. There are a number of ways of resolving this. That suggests that the Passover would have begun on sundown Friday. They themselves did not enter the Praetorium, so that they might not be defiled, but might eat the passover. Then they led Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the Praetorium. However, when describing the morning of Good Friday, John indicates that the Jewish authorities had not yet eaten the Passover meal: The term ‘ereb admits of two meanings: “evening” and “admixture” (Exodus 12:38) and ‘Ereb Shabbat accordingly denotes the day on the evening of which Sabbath begins, or the day on which food is prepared for both the current and the following days, which latter is Sabbath. Thus thus cooked food in advance and made other necessary preparations.įriday, as the forerunner of Shabbat, is called ‘Ereb Shabbat (The Eve of Sabbath). We know that it was a Friday because it is referred to as “the day of preparation” - that is, the day on which Jews made the preparations they needed for the Sabbath, since they could not do any work on that day. 29 and 36.Īll four gospels agree that Jesus was crucified on a Friday ( Matthew 27:62, Mark 15:42 Luke23:54 John 19:42), just before a Sabbath, which was just before the first day of the week ( Matthew 28:1, Mark 16:2, Luke 24:1, John 20:1). The death of Christ had to be in a range of seven years: between A.D.
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