You know the Jews reckoned their days of the week,
to be from 6:00 pm on one day, until 6:00 pm the following day,
to make what consists of each single 24 hour day,
So is it, you do believe what
Mark 14:12
being cited refers to the actual day of the 14th of Nisan matters?
"The feast of Passover was by no means uniformly defined, so some in the colloquial language already called the 13th Nisan also belonging to the Passover, because some splinter groups already began on the 13th Nisan with the slaughter, others counted from the 14th Nisan, because on this day the lamb had to be slaughtered.
"But the first Passover feast day (High Sabbath) for all was, of course, only the 15th of Nisan, because it was the first day of Unleavened Bread, when no leaven was to be eaten. From the 13th of Nisan to the 14th of Nisan, the Israelites had to remove the leaven, but before sunset, because after sunset the High Sabbath (15th of Nisan) began.
"The real Passover lamb was slaughtered on the 14th of Nisan. However, some scholars point out that because of the immense amount of sheep, the slaughtering began on the 13th of Nisan for those living outside Jerusalem and on the 14th of Nisan for most others.
"This view is also held by PICKL: "Because of the large number of sacrifices and because of the long journeys of the Disaspora Jews and the Galileans, however, the practice had become established of slaughtering Passover lambs in some cases as early as the evening of Nisan 13 and bringing the Passover meal forward a day. The synoptic account reflects such an early meal on the 13th of Nisan" (cf. PICKL, Messiaskönig 1939, pp. 250-251. In: Guido Baltes Hebräisches Evangelium und Synoptische Überlieferung, 2011.
"But the historian
Flavius Josephus does not write that slaughtering already took place on the 13th of Nisan, but he reports that it was on this 14th of Nisan, as it was prescribed in the Torah.
"He mentions an unimaginable 255,600 sacrificial animals slaughtered on the 14th of Nisan from the 9th hour to the 11th hour (Jewish War 6, chapter 9, 423-425). In terms of the 2 hours of slaughter (9th-11th hour; 3-5 p.m.), it would mean that 2,130 lambs should have been killed per minute. The Bible does not say that the Passover lambs were slaughtered as early as Nisan 13. Neither does it say that Jesus ate a Passover lamb.
"Therefore, most Christians assume that the Last Supper at the beginning of the 14th Nisan (night phase) must have been a normal meal that became a new memorial meal. The evangelist John describes this last night of Jesus in great detail. It was the last common evening before the execution of Jesus, therefore it became the special memory meal. According to this, Jesus would not have eaten the Passover lamb because He himself was "slaughtered" as the Passover lamb on the 14th of Nisan.
"This would also coincide with various extra-biblical sources which report that Jesus did NOT eat the Passover lamb (e.g. Chronicon Paschale, Hippolytus, etc.). Since on Tuesday evening from 6 p.m. the Passover preparation day (14th Nisan) began, the designation "Passover meal" is correct, because it was on the same calendar day in which in the evening (more precisely "between the evenings" (see
explanation) the Passover lamb was slaughtered.
"In other words, a
Passover meal is a meal that takes place at the time of Passover, with no specific day or food specified. In common speech, this usually refers to the Passover meal at the end of the
14th and beginning of the
15th of Nisan, at which the Passover lamb was eaten. But on any day (or evening) during the one-week Passover feast, there could be a communal meal at which the family met. If this meal took place on an evening, then for the Israelites it was an evening meal.
"But we Christians, when we use the word
"Last Supper" or
"Lord's Supper", mean a very special meal on a very specific evening, namely the LAST gathering of the disciples with their Lord before His execution. Since all biblical days begin after sunset, this was of course after the 13th of Nisan, that is, after sunset (from 6 pm a new calendar day began, see definition day) at the beginning of the
14th of Nisan. On the same calendar day, Jesus was crucified at 3 pm.
"A
Passover lamb is a lamb eaten at the time of the Passover feast. The Passover began with the separation of the lamb already on the
10th of Nisan, but this very special and unique lamb was not allowed to be slaughtered until the
14th of Nisan (at 3pm)..."
"However, it would in no way be the pure and young lamb that was already sorted out on the
10th of Nisan and had to be kept for 4 days and was only allowed to be slaughtered for the Passover feast on the
14th of Nisan from 3 pm. Only the blood of this specific lamb brought salvation.
"All this was done to commemorate the Exodus from Egypt, in which the lamb slaughtered at 3 p.m. on the 14th of Nisan (see "
between the evenings") was quickly eaten, the blood of which saved the people of Israel.
"On the night of the
15th of Nisan, the liberation of the people and the exodus from Egypt took place, so this day is the first
High Sabbath of the year and not the day before, which is only a preparation day."
from:
3. The preparation day was not a Friday
but a Wednesday.