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The historical event of the actual date of the death, burial resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Any Friday date can be thrown out.
Hazelelponi
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I'm going with the April 3, 33 AD dating, it's the most plausible. Jesus was born somewhere around 3 bc, and he preached for 3-1/2 years before the crucifixion. This dating places his age at about 30 when He started His ministry, which is about right. There was also a lunar eclipse on that date and fits within the +/- of the geological dating of an earthquake that area.
Not possible is you accept scripture.
37818
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John 12:1-2, Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. xr There they made him a supper; and Martha served: . . .
The making of a supper that day indicates that day was not the 7th day Sabbath, so that Passover 6 days before could not have been on the a 6th day, aka Friday.
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Hazelelponi
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Friday, April 3, 33 AD led directly into a High Sabbath (a double Sabbath) at sundown, as Nisan 15 began.
Six days before that Friday would be Saturday, March 28, 33 AD, which would correspond to Nisan 8.
Many scholars suggest he arrived in Bethany just before sunset on Friday (Nisan 7) and the supper mentioned in John 12:2 happened after sunset on Saturday meaning it was technically Sunday (Nisan 9) by Jewish reckoning for the hosted arrival dinner.
It doesn't conflict with John 12:1–2, as long as you're tracking Jewish days from sunset to sunset.
"Six days before Passover" is likely to be an inclusive count
In ancient reckoning, counting often included both the start and end days.