Featured The 14th Nisan (A Preparation Day; before the Sabbath High Day) was not before a double Sabbath.

This gets difficukt with night-days, two evenings, between the evenings...

Let's just go with Mark assuming a Wed. Passover morning (which I don't hold) and use our days for clarity.

Tuesday afternoon, around 2 to 3 pm (if 14 Nisan is not on a Friday) the Passover would be killed at the Temple. Families woukd slaughter a lamb, sheep or goat sometime in this afternoon as well, and hold for their meal at sunset.

So around 2pm Jesus sent 2 followers ahead. This was on the first day of unleavened bread (not the Feast of Unleavened Bread).

Jesus arrived with the Twelve when even came (around sunset) and ate with the Disciples in the upper room.

Jesus went to the Garden and His arrest occurred.

On Wednesday morning (probably while still dark) Jesus was presented to the Roman governor. Around 9am on Wendsday Jesus was presented to the Jewish leaders.

The Crucifixion, then, occurred on Wendsday (for timeline sake...using a Western counting of 3 days & nights). He woukd have been laid in the tomb before sunset on Wendsday because Thursday woukd be a day set as a holy convocation (15 Nisan).


Again, this is for time line clarity. I believe Friday the correct day because I think the Bible was using a Jewish day. But it seems that you have somehow gained a day in your timeline (not sure where . . . maybe with counting that the killing, sacrifice, ceremony, travel, killing of the lambs-goats for the family meal, and the actual meal all hapened at the same moment?).

 

Brother, I have gotten tired of this conversation. You posed your idea and asked for a challenge. It was given.

Bottom line is the reason that no biblical scholar suggests that Christ was crucified on 15 Nisan is the idea contradicts Scripture. Christians argue day and year, but we know that Christ was laid in the Tomb prior to Nisan 15 because of God's Word.

That said, we do not know how the actual years fell because the Jewish Calendar used observation. The New Year could have been a day or two late depending on conditions.

The 1st Century Jews did not use your calendar program to check the date, and your calendar program is based on lunar cycles without observation of those cycles and without data of conditions affecting observation.

So we are arguing about something that can't be q00% known.

The thing we can know about the date of the crucifixion is that it occurred before 15 Nisan because God's Word is true.

 

That's the question.

By Western counting the chart is 3 days and 3 nights. By Jewish counting it is 5 days and 5 nights.

Which do we use?

One example is the fast spoken of in Ester which lasted 3 days and 3 nights....but was 2 days by our counting.


Did Jesus use a Jewish idea of day and night or another idea? Maybe a Roman counting (I don't know how Romans counted days)?

 

But we know that os not how it was done in the 1st century.

The actual pasdover meal was eaten at sundown starting the 14th (what we would call the night of the 13th).

It is obvious to most that the lamb woukd have to be killed BEFORE they ate it.

And we know that in the 1st Century Jewish Law prescribed a time to kill the Passover in the afternoon before the morning of 14 Nisan.


But as long as you are not a history teacher or witnessing to traditional Jews then it probably doesn't matter.

 

Oh....another interesting (mildly interesting) question is whether Jesus didn't 3 days and nights in the tomb or if He arose on the 3rd day according to Scripture (looking at the chart).

I'm with you that dating isn't important. We really can't know because the Jewish Calendar (start of the new year) was based on observation rather than a program).

My only issue here is what we do know insofar as recognizing the significance of days (like the crucifixion was before Nisan 15).

 

I disagree.

I do not know the exact date God created Adam. This does not mean I question the Creation of Adam.

We do not know ow the exact date of Christ's birth and without His birth there woukd be no resurrection.

There are many readons it is impossible to know the exact date.

1. The Jews did not follow an exact lunar calendar (it was based on a luner system but by observation).

2. The 1st Century Jews did not use the Hebrew method (they moved from the Biblical calendar to one of "observation and reckoning").

3. The Sanhedrin kept and adjusted the calendar (to accommodate issues like Rosh Hashanah never falling on the 7th day).

So we form opinions.

But there are things we can know, like Rosh Hashanah is never on a Sabbath.

1. Jesus was not crucified on a Sabbath.
2. Jesus was not crucified on Nisan 15
3. Jesus was not crucified on Nisan 21

Why do we know this?

Because of God's Word. Our calculations may be wrong, our counting of days may be wrong, our dates may be wrong. BUT Scripture is correct.