April 3, AD 33.

[church mouse guy]

Dr. Andreas Köstenberger is senior research professor at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina thinks that the date of the first Good Friday can be established as April 3, AD 33.

He says:

This author concludes that Jesus was most likely crucified on April 3, AD 33. While this is not a salvation truth and while other dates are possible, believers can take great assurance from the fact that the most important historical events in Jesus’s life, such as the Crucifixion, are firmly anchored in human history. The same is true for all of the Bible’s history, including creation and humanity’s rebellion in the Garden that brought death into the world and made Christ’s Crucifixion necessary.

When we celebrate Easter, and as we walk with Jesus every day of the year, we can be confident that our faith is based not only on subjective personal assurance but on reliable historical data, which makes ours an eminently reasonable faith.

Placing the Cross in History

 

[TCassidy]

That is fine if you believe the Roman Catholic myth that Jesus was crucified on Friday and only spent a day and a half in the tomb.

Sundown Friday to sundown Saturday = 24 hours.
Sundown Saturday to sunup Sunday = 12 hours.

Jesus in the tomb 36 hours. A day and a half.

So much for the bible.

Matt 12:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Matt 27:63 Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.

Mark 8:31 And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

 

[church mouse guy]

This is a Baptist statement.

At any rate, I always heard that a partial day counted as a full day in Jewish reckoning so that would be three days.

So the year was 33 AD and the calendar date was April 3, 33 for the first Good Friday.

 

[TCassidy]

I always heard that a partial day counted as a full day in Jewish reckoning so that would be three days.

Yeah. By Catholic apologists. Unfortunately it isn't true.

 

[church mouse guy]

I never heard that from Catholics but Baptists. Jesus was buried Good Friday. He rose on Sunday. That makes three days.

 

[TCassidy]

Jesus was buried Good Friday.

Not according to the bible. He was buried on the Preparation Day for the Feast of the Passover.

That makes three days.

Well, I won't suggest you may be mathematically challenged, but you just counted to 3 and got two of the numbers wrong!

 

[church mouse guy]

Not according to the bible. He was buried on the Preparation Day for the Feast of the Passover.

Well, I won't suggest you may be mathematically challenged, but you just counted to 3 and got two of the numbers wrong!

There you go again with your I'm so intelligent stuff. I can't imagine what day the Easter bunny gets to your house with your basket.

 

[TCassidy]

There you go again with your I'm so intelligent stuff.

I am not all that intelligent. But I can count to 3 and get ALL the numbers right.

I can't imagine what day the Easter bunny gets to your house with your basket.

I stopped believing in the Easter bunny about 70 years ago.

Of course, at my age I can hide my own Easter eggs. In about a half hour I can't remember where I hid them so I can still have fun looking for them.

 

[church mouse guy]

A Baptist research prof at Southeastern said that he thinks the first Good Friday was April 3, 33.

 

[TCassidy]

A Baptist research prof at Southeastern said that he thinks the first Good Friday was April 3, 33.

Yes, I know. I disagree. And, by the way, he also says there are other dates that are just about as likely. He, unlike you, is not dogmatic about it.

 

[church mouse guy]

He said that April 3, 33 was the date he thought most likely and so I went with him and linked the entire article for the Baptist Board.

 

[JonC]

Yes, I know. I disagree. And, by the way, he also says there are other dates that are just about as likely. He, unlike you, is not dogmatic about it.

Aren't you being a bit dogmatic about it?

 

[TCassidy]

Aren't you being a bit dogmatic about it?

Not a bit. I couldn't care less what date you think the crucifixion occurred.

 

[JonC]

Not a bit. I couldn't care less what date you think the crucifixion occurred.

You mean I have the right to be wrong if I don't think it's Wed. And I'm with you, bro. I wouldn't want to deprive anyone of their God given right to be wrong.

 

[church mouse guy]

Not a bit. I couldn't care less what date you think the crucifixion occurred.

What date do you think it occurred or do you think that it is an historical event?

 

[JonC]

What date do you think it occurred or do you think that it is an historical event?

He believes Jesus died on the Preparation Day, Nisan 14, which fell on Wednesday in 31 AD. (I agree with him. I don't see how we can get 3 days and 3 nights with a Friday burial...and Wed. fits).

 

[church mouse guy]

He believes Jesus died on the Preparation Day, Nisan 14, which fell on Wednesday in 31 AD. (I agree with him. I don't see how we can get 3 days and 3 nights with a Friday burial).

What would that be in English?

 

[JonC]

What would that be in English?

Wednesday.

I think 25 April. But I haven't given it much thought. @TCassidy has a much olde....er....experienced mind than I so he'd be best to ask. I wasn't alive back then.

 

[church mouse guy]

So you think April 25, 31, and the Baptist Prof said April 3, 33. Should the Prof be fired?

 

[JonC]

So you think April 25, 31, and the Baptist Prof said April 3, 33. Should the Prof be fired?

Yes. He should be fired. We can't have our leaders misrepresenting such a vital date to our faith. Just think about how many souls are lost by the teaching Christ died on Friday. It's "another gospel" all together. Next thing you know they'll be questioning that Sunday was the Sabbath.