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Mon 6 Jan, 2025 08:16 pm
Unlike the southern Jews from Judaea, who held their Passover meal on the night of the 15th of the first month, the first day of the seven-day Festival of Unleavened Bread, Jesus the Galilean Jew, being true to the words of the God of our ancestors, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, held his Passover meal with his disciples on the night of the 14th of the first month.
According to the words of the God of Abraham, the day of preparation to the day of Passover was the 13th day of the first month, on which the Pascal lambs that were to be eaten on the night of the 14th were killed, but because the southern Jews ate their pascal lambs on the night of the 15th day of the first month, this means that their day of preparation to the Passover was on the 14th day of the first month. Jesus held the Passover with his disciples in the evening and beginning of the 14th day of the first month.
After giving many instructions to his disciples, they retired to a garden across the Kidron brook, where Jesus would often gather with his disciples. Judas knew where they would be, and in the early part of the 12 hours of darkness of the erroneous Jewish day of Preparation to the erroneous Jewish Passover, Judas, with a group of Roman soldiers and some temple guards, came with lanterns to light the way and arrested Jesus. After being questions by the Jewish authorities, spat on, slapped around and mocked, he was then taken to the palace of the gentile Pontus Pilate, it was just before midnight and the Jews would not enter the gentile palace as that would have made them ritually unclean, and unable to eat of the Passover lamb next evening of the 15th of Nisan, see John 18: 28.
Matthew 27: 19; While Pilate was sitting in the judgement hall at the sixth hour [midnight], his wife sent him a message: “Have nothing to do with that innocent man, because in a dream this night I suffered much on account of him.”
It was not 'NOON' when Pilate passed judgement on Jesus, as most bibles claim, it was the sixth hour of the 12 hours of darkness (MIDNIGHT) on the day of preparation to the erroneous Jewish Passover. See RSV John 19: 14.
See Mark 15: 25 RSV; He was nailed to the cross on the 3rd hour of the 12 hours of daylight, (9 AM) on the day of preparation to the Jewish seven-day Passover. Darkness covered the Land at (NOON) the 6th hour of the 12 hours of daylight on the day of preparation to the Jewish Passover, Jesus died on the 9th hour (3PM) on the day of preparation to the Jewish Passover, and was buried just as the sun was setting on the day of preparation to the Jewish Passover, as the Jews were preparing to eat their pascal Lambs in the evening of the 15th day of Nisan, which lambs had been killed between the two evenings (Mid-day to sunset) on the day of preparation to their Passover, which was the first of their seven day Festival of Unleavened bread, a Most High Sabbath, the first of their seven day Festival of Unleavened Bread on which no work could be done, which Most High Passover and Easter are supposed to fall on, or near, a full moon in the spring.
The seven days Festival of Passover in Israel, always begins on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan. Because the Hebrew months are pegged directly to the lunar cycle, the 15th day of Nisan is always a full moon. Jesus rose in the dusk of late Saturday afternoon, and his tomb was found to be empty in the darkness Sunday morning, but as Passover can fall on various days of the week, and Jesus said that he would be in the bowels of the earth for three days and three nights, we must ask the question; “On what day was he buried, on what day did the 15th of Nisan fall?”
The tomb of Jesus was found to be empty early on Sunday morning while it was still dark, See John 20: 1; this does not necessarily mean that he was risen on Sunday Morning, he may have been resurrected in the evening and beginning of Sunday, just after the sun had set on Saturday the weekly Sabbath.
If this were the case, it would mean that Jesus was buried as the sunset on Wednesday the 14th day of Nisan, (The true day of Passover) but the day of preparation to the erroneous Jewish seven days Passover, and remained in the tomb all Thursday night and the next day, the fifteenth day of Nisan, which is the first day of the Jewish Passover=seven day festival of Unleavened Bread, a MOST HIGH Sabbath on which no work could be done.
Then Friday night and Friday, the sixteenth day of Nisan in which the women could go out to the markets and purchase the Herbs and spices they needed to prepare the tomb of Jesus, and as the purchase and preparation of those spices would have taken up most of that day, and the evening of Saturday the weekly Sabbath was fast approaching in which no work could be done either, it was not until Sunday morning, in the darkness before sunrise, that they were able to go, in order to prepare the tomb of Jesus, only to find that it was empty.
If Jesus was not resurrected until Sunday morning, then he would, had to have been in the tomb for three days and four nights.
So, unless we reckon that Jesus lied when he said that he would be in the bowels of the earth for three days and three nights, we must now accept that according to the scriptures, I repeat, “According to the scriptures,” Jesus died on Wednesday the 14th of Nisan, was in the tomb on the night and day of the 15th, the night and day of the 16th, and the night and day of the 17th of Nisan, and was risen early in the evening and beginning of Sunday the 18th, but in what Year?