Jesus last days- Timeline

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As a child I waited for the time to celebrate Palm Sunday. Using some passages from scripture I was trying to piece together a timeline . What do you in the forum think about it?

The Passover Exodus ch. 12 says that the Passover lamb (1 year old sheep) had to be sacrificed on the 14th of the month of Abib, now Nisan, at dusk. Verse 18 says Israelites must eat unleavened bread at evening.

Matthew says 26:17-20 = Mark 14:12-17Luke 22: 714, says that on the firs t day of unleavened bread the disciples came to ask Jesus where he wanted to celebrate the Passover. It seem, verse 20 that that same evening had the memorial service (Passover). Exodus says in v. 16 that the first day of unleavened bread there should be a holy convocation, no work should be done. Like says that in. ch. 23:54 that it was the day of Preparation (of the unleavened brad?), and the Sabbath (Saturday was approaching, that is Friday night.). This makes Jesus death happen on Friday. The Passover was on Thursday, and resurrection on Sunday morning.

John 12: 1 says 6 days before then Passover Jesus came to Bethany. Verse 12 says that the next day the crowd heard Jesus was coming into Jerusalem.

My Timeline using John's 6 days:

1st day 8th of Abib- Saturday (Fri. 6pm- 6pm) Jesus at Bethany. Mary cleans Jesus feet. Did this happen Friday night?

2nd day 9th of Abib- Sunday( Sat. 6pm, Sun. 6pm). John says the next day in ch. 12 v. 12. Jesus could not have entered Jerusalem in the morning because of prohibition about working on the Sabbath. Did he enter around 6 pm Saturday? Or around 10 am Sunday?

3rd day 10th of Abib Monday (Sun 6pm-Mon 6 pm) .

4rd day-11th of Abib -Tuesday (Mon. 6pm- Tue. 6pm.)

5th day 12th of Abib-Wednesday ( Tue. 6pm- Wed. 6 pm)Jesus sends disciples to prepare the Passover . Did he do it Tuesday night? Or Wed. morning?

6th day-13th of Abib-Thursday (Wed. 6pm-Thurs. 6pm)

14th of Abib- Friday (Thurs 6pm- Fri 6pm) (Thursday night) Jesus celebrates the Passover. around midnight arrested. Between 2-3 am denied by Peter. Rooster crows. 6 am sent to Pilate. 7:30 am, sent to Herod. 9 am he is crucified. 12-3pm, darkness. 14th (Friday afternoon, 3pm, he dies on the cross). 5 pm, buried in tomb.

15th Saturday (6pm Friday, 6pm Saturday) (Friday night, Saturday afternoon, Jesus in the tomb)

16th Sunday (6 pm Saturday- 6pm Sunday) Jesus rises from the dead before 6 am. Appears to Mary Magdalene around 7 am. Appears to two disciples around 5 pm.

-- Elpidio gonzalez (egonzalez@srla.org), April 10, 2003

Answers

Elpidio,

Thanks for the information. Do you or does anyone know the real date Jesus rose from the dead? How about the real Christmas?

Sharon

-- Sharon (delipasta@hotmail.com), April 11, 2003.


Brinden, show a timetable you have seen in one of the exegesis books you have seen. All the ones I have seen have a hard time making sense out of John and the Synoptics. For them the chronology doesn't match.

-- Elpidio Gonzalez (egonzalez@srla.oeg), April 11, 2003.

Sharon, Here is a hread where Marylu, Chris Butler, Myself and others discuss the birth of Jesus. For Marilu and myself Jesus was born in September.www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=00ARXx

The 15th Year of Tiberius corresponds to August 28 AD-August 29 AD. See ch. 3 Luke. Jesus according to the Synoptic Gospels: Mark, Matthew and Luke preached for about 3 1/2 years. The only possible years are AD 32 and AD 33.

-- Elpidio Gonzalez (egonzalez@srla.org), April 11, 2003.


Elpidio,

I heard a medievalist explain this the other day.

At the time that Jesus lived, there were actually several different calandars for when to celebrate the Jewish holidays. The Pharisees used one while other groups used another. One was designed to celebrate them on the same day of the week every year while the one that the Pharisees used allowed the holidays to fall on different days of the week. According to the early church, Jesus actually celebrated the Passover on a Tuesday night, not Thursday night. The Pharisees celebrated it on Thursday.

This makes sense because Jesus went before three judges who were located nowhere near eachother. If he had celebrated it on Thursday night then it would not account for all the traveling that he had to do before Good Friday.

I hope this helps you. God Bless.

-- Nicole McHugh (mchugh_nikki@hotmail.com), May 05, 2003.


Nicole, you are right about Jesus having to see three "judges" : The High Priest(s),Pontius Pilate, and Herod.

There is a possibility of Jesus celebrating the passover on a day it wasn't Thursday night if the prophecy of Jonah is Literal: Matthew 12 40For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

So if Jesus rose on Sunday morning, then Jesus celebrated the Passover on Wednesday night, not Tuesday.

Tradition points towards Thursday, nonetheles.

-- Elpidio gonzalez (egonzalez@srla.org), May 08, 2003.



Jmj
Hello, Nicole and Elpidio.

QUOTE: Tradition points towards Thursday, nonetheless.
COMMENT: No, it doesn't "point towards Thursday." It teaches that Thursday was the day. And Apostolic Tradition, being one font of infallible divine revelation, cannot be in error.

QUOTE: This makes sense because Jesus went before three judges who were located nowhere near each other. If he had celebrated it on Thursday night then it would not account for all the traveling that he had to do before Good Friday.
COMMENT: He hardly had to do any traveling. The "three judges" happened to be very near each other, in Jerusalem, on that night. We cannot fall for "revisionist history."

QUOTE: There is a possibility of Jesus celebrating the passover on a day it wasn't Thursday night if the prophecy of Jonah is Literal:
COMMENT: It wasn't "literal," in the sense of being understood according to our modern languages. The expression "three days and nights" was a Hebrew manner of referecne that is not invalidated by the burial of Jesus from Friday afternoon to Sunday morning.

QUOTE: So if Jesus rose on Sunday morning, then Jesus celebrated the Passover on Wednesday night, not Tuesday.
COMMENT: This is the kind of wrong conclusion that people fall into when they are not Catholic and are trying to do unguided private interpretation of the scriptures. [Elpidio, please recover from apostasy, and come back to the Catholic Church.]

God bless you.
John

-- J. F. Gecik (jfgecik@hotmail.com), May 09, 2003.


John,
I spotted an interesting article about just this; today on ananova.com --I think it will interest you. It bears you out well, whether it is scientific or not.

-- eugene c. chavez (loschavez@pacbell.net), May 09, 2003.

ananova.com

Use the search link, key word christ. This is the science link.

-- eugene c. chavez (loschavez@pacbell.net), May 09, 2003.


Gene, I tried unsuccessfully to find it. Probably I did not exactly use the method you wanted me to us.
Can you get me (and Elpidio and Nicole) a full URL of the page with the article (e.g., http://www.___.___/xxxx/zzzz) -- or can you "copy and paste" the relevant sentences/paragraphs?
Thanks. JFG

-- J. F. Gecik (jfgecik@hotmail.com), May 11, 2003.

Ananova:

ananova.com ... search place key wd christ,

Two Romanian astronomers say their research shows Christ died at 3pm on a Friday, and rose again at 4am on a Sunday. Liviu Mircea and Tiberiu Oproiu claim to have pinpointed the exact time and date of Christ's crucifixion and resurrection. The pair, from the Astronomic Observatory Institute in Cluj, Romania, say Jesus died at 3pm on Friday, April 3, 33 AD, and rose again at 4am on Sunday, April 5. They used a computer programme to check biblical references against historical astronomical data. They said the New Testament stated that Jesus died the day after the first night with a full moon, after the vernal equinox. Using data gathered on the stars between 26 and 35 AD they established that in those nine years, the first full moon after the vernal equinox was registered twice - on Friday, April 7, 30 AD, and on Friday, April 3, 33 AD. They were convinced the date of the crucifixion was 33 AD, and not 30 AD, because records showed a solar eclipse, as depicted in the Bible at the time of Jesus' crucifixion, occurred in Jerusalem that year.

Story filed: 11:33 Thursday 8th May 2003
-- eugene c. chavez (loschavez@pacbell.net), May 11, 2003.



Very interesting, Gene. Thank you. JFG

-- J. F. Gecik (jfgecik@hotmail.com), May 11, 2003.

I had not seen your link Eugene on Anova.com. I tried the link, yet couldn't find I then found this other link < a href="http://itss.raytheon.com/cafe/qadir/q867.html"> Jesus Crucifixion on 33 AD.

-- Elpidio Gonzalez (egonzalez@srla.org), June 09, 2003.

The website:

ananova.com

The search feature responded to key word: christ

Maybe you can still access it.

-- eugene c. chavez (loschavez@pacbell.net), June 09, 2003.


Date .

-- Elpidio Gonzalez (egonzalez@srla.org), June 09, 2003.

Jmj

Gene, you wrote: "The website: ananova.com ... The search feature responded to key word: christ"

I don't know what you mean by this. Are you referring to something having to do with "AOL.COM"? I have only seen AOL.COM once in my life -- for a few minutes -- and it was completely foreign to me, so different from the Internet browsers I have been using since 1994 (Mosaic / Netscape / Internet Explorer). I have no idea what a "key word" is. (I just thought I'd explain why I could never see the article you wanted me to see. I speak a different "lingo.")

God bless you.
John

-- J. F. Gecik (jfgecik@hotmail.com), June 10, 2003.



Hi, John,
No. Just open www.ananova.com

In the home page a ''search'' link is up near the top margin. It says: search. Write christ in it and click.

I seem to recall the article was written in the science section of Ananova, which is a Brit magazine. Hope the worlk is still accessible.

-- eugene c. chavez (loschavez@pacbell.net), June 10, 2003.


Jmj
Thanks, Gene. I finally got it to work. Maybe last time, I didn't click that circle that tells it to search only in Ananova's memory (instead of the whole Internet). I actually had to run a second search, telling it to search without time restrictions, because the first search was limited to thirty days.

Here is a link to the page where you found the story. However, I have to wonder how dependable Ananova's stuff is, when I see that they are also willing to publish trash like this.

God bless you.
John

-- J. F. Gecik (jfgecik@hotmail.com), June 11, 2003.


John, I came near telling you, the magazine is far from a commendable one. I read it from time to time, to check sporting news from the UK. It's articles are informative. I know the link you send here points to somethiing bad for sure. I'm not even interested in clicking.

-- eugene c. chavez (loschavez@pacbell.net), June 11, 2003.

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