Significant dates of Christ
A little background info…Mosaic Law….Remember the Sabbath, to keep it holy. The Jewish Sabbath occurs weekly on Saturday, similar to the Christian Holy Day that occurs on Sunday.
The Gregorian calendar missed the birth of Christ by 3 years. When calculating keep in mind that the Gregorian calendar does not have a year 0 (zero) and Year 1 is both BC and AD.
Herod dies March 12th 4 bc So Christ has to be born before that. Josephus notes an eclipse of the moon around the time of Herod death. Computerized astronomical calculations (NASA) indicate that there was an eclipse of the moon that could be seen from Jerusalem on the night of the 23rd of March 4 BC.
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star!
So Herod secretly told the Magi to go to Bethlehem and investigate and report back to him, but the Magi chose to follow the star instead. (Matt. 2:1-9) The star then moved north to Nazareth and they followed the star to a small home were the baby Jesus lived and they worshiped Him (Matt. 2:11) It was the Star of Nazareth, not the Star of the Nativity, because the Magi never went to Bethlehem. Which solves another misunderstanding.
( Oh Three Kings of Orient are…)
The early Christian leaders had problems with the word Magi because it means magic-ian, better understood in this time period as wizard, sorcerer, or even witch. In fact, the masculine noun of this word is used to describe Simon Magus in Acts chapter 8 and Elymas the sorcerer in Acts chapter 13 who were not Magi, but just run of the mill sorcerers. So in some translations they named them wise men and tradition labeled them as three Kings, even though the number is not specified in the Bible. The gifts that the Magi gave Christ was a treasure, not trinket gifts. Matthew 2:11 And as indicated they may have been the first to worship Him.
The custom or tradition that the Magi were from the east and His star appeared in the east, is a contradiction. (Matt. 2:1-2) If the Magi would have been from the orient or east of Jerusalem and saw His star in the east they would be following the star in the opposite direction of Bethlehem/Nazareth. So this simply does not make any sense...unless they saw it from somewhere else. This group of Magi although not all Egyptians were probably from the area around Alexandria, Egypt and maybe they saw it in the sky east of Egypt. Also it should be noted that the star is a light, not a heavenly body because it moves, not in straight lines, and rests and according to some traditions casts a light to where Christ was. So the light could have hovered east of Alexandria and the Magi followed it around the Mediterranean, coming from the east to Nazareth by way of Jerusalem. Another contradiction resolved.
Then God spoke to the Magi in a dream and warned them not to return to King Herod. So they departed for their own country by another way. Matt. 2:12 Then in the next verse Matt. 2:13... Now when they had gone, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up! Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is going to search for the Child to destroy Him.”
Then in Matthew 2:19-20 But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, and said, “Get up, take the Child and His mother, and go into the land of Israel; for those who sought the Child’s life are dead.” Herod dies on March 12th 4 BC.
Spoiler Alert: Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.
The Bible indicates Christ’s ministry starts when He was baptized by John the Baptist. Luke 3:23 ----Luke 3:1 Indicates that John the Baptist starts Baptizing in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, which would be in the year 29 AD. Which means that you would have to push Christ’s crucifixion off to 33 AD, (Next available date for the Passover on a Sabbath.) which would mean that Christ was born after Herod’s death? Which would make Christ 36 years old or throws Matthew’s story of the Magi, Herod, and the killing of innocents out the window. So it would seem that Luke may have added incorrectly. To keep the timeline correct Christ ministry would have to start in 27 AD, plus or minus a few months.
Christ's week in Jerusalem
Palm Sunday
Matthew 21:1-11
Mark 11:1-11
Luke 19:28-44
John 12:12-19
Monday
Cleansed the Temple of the money changers
No broom a length of rope
Matthew 21:12
Mark 11:15-17
Luke 19:45-46
Tuesday
Mount of Olive sermon and parables
Matthew 21:23-24
Mark 11:20-13:27
Luke 20:1-21:36
John 12:20-38
Wednesday
The woman with the Alabaster Jar
Judas goes to negotiate Christ betrayal
Matthew 26:2-16
Mark 14:1-11
Luke 22:3-6
Thursday
The Last supper
Matthew 26:17---
Mark 14:12---
Luke 22:7---
John 13:1---
Friday
Passover---The Feast of Unleavened Bread----Hag Ha-Matzot.
Passover is one 24 hour period in the seven day Feast of Unleavened bread. The Jewish Passover occurs each year on the evening of the first full moon after the Spring Equinox.
One thing we know for sure, Christ was not crucified on the day He ate the His Last Supper. But the Jews would have normally been eating the Passover meal on the day Christ was crucified, that would be Friday.
Over the centuries there have been some confusion on which day the Last Supper occurred, and the circumstances of its occurrence. So before we go on let me explain. Traditionally in this time period, on the eve before the Passover the sacrificial lamb was slain and butchered ritualistically. The blood was collected ritualistically and applied to the doorways. (This is the Passover part of the ritual of the plaque of the first born.) Then the entire lamb was cooked over a fire and eaten entirely, with unleavened bread. (The sacrifice could be either an unblemished goat or lamb. You can read about this ritual in Exodus chapter 12.) This is not exactly what happened during the evening of the Last Supper. But the Gospels use the term Passover meal to refer to the Last Supper and also reference the Passover lamb being sacrificed on Thursday evening, from there, confusion ensued.
The Jewish Passover that year occurred on Saturday April 8th 30 AD, and started at dusk (As the Full Moon rose) on April 7th. Computerized astronomical calculations (NASA) shows a full Moon on the evening of April 7th when Passover began. So the Passover for that year occurred on the Jewish Sabbath...Saturday. Two Holy events occurring on the same day. Some refer to this as a High Holy Day, High Day, or High Sabbath for the Jews. The Lambs would have been killed on Friday, the afternoon of the 7th of April. But Christ would not be alive Friday evening. So in this instance there was an honorary Passover meal for Christ. As I said, we know that Christ did not eat the Last Supper on the day He was crucified.
He was the symbolic and divine sacrificial lamb and He was slain around 3:00 pm on the 7th of April, around the time that the actual sacrificial lambs were being slain. The Passover dinner for Him was held on the evening of the 6th of April...Thursday and they had a sacrificial lamb. The next day, the actual Passover lambs would be slaughtered and eaten on Friday evening/night...for the Passover dinners. Christ was the sacrificial lamb for the New Covenant and He was crucified during the day on Friday, about the time the sacrificial lambs for Passover were being killed. So Christ would not be observing the normal processes of the Passover and the Passover meal, and as it turned out, the same was true for the Apostles because they would be in hiding, not sacrificing lambs. They may have arranged for food to be brought to them, but they probably were not sacrificing lambs at the Temple while Christ was being crucified.
The meal that Christ attended was a meal that the Gospels refer to as the Passover meal, put it was not the actual Jewish Passover meal. As I explained, the next day was the Jewish day of preparation for the Passover, and the Jewish Passover meal would occur then. This was the day that Christ was slain. Matthew 27:62, Mark 15:42, Luke 23:54, John 19:14, 31, and 42, all confirm that the day that Christ was crucified was on the Day of Preparation, which was Friday, April 7th 30 AD. John 18:28 also proves that on Thursday night/Friday morning, the day of Christ’s crucifixion, the Apostles had not eaten the actual Passover meal yet. The morning cock had crowed for Peter John 18:27 Christ was before Pilate in the Praetorium and the Apostles did not enter because they did not want to be defiled because they wanted to eat the Passover. Which would be that evening. Another mystery solved....
A little background info…Mosaic Law….Remember the Sabbath, to keep it holy. The Jewish Sabbath occurs weekly on Saturday, similar to the Christian Holy Day that occurs on Sunday.
The Gregorian calendar missed the birth of Christ by 3 years. When calculating keep in mind that the Gregorian calendar does not have a year 0 (zero) and Year 1 is both BC and AD.
Herod dies March 12th 4 bc So Christ has to be born before that. Josephus notes an eclipse of the moon around the time of Herod death. Computerized astronomical calculations (NASA) indicate that there was an eclipse of the moon that could be seen from Jerusalem on the night of the 23rd of March 4 BC.
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star!
So Herod secretly told the Magi to go to Bethlehem and investigate and report back to him, but the Magi chose to follow the star instead. (Matt. 2:1-9) The star then moved north to Nazareth and they followed the star to a small home were the baby Jesus lived and they worshiped Him (Matt. 2:11) It was the Star of Nazareth, not the Star of the Nativity, because the Magi never went to Bethlehem. Which solves another misunderstanding.
( Oh Three Kings of Orient are…)
The early Christian leaders had problems with the word Magi because it means magic-ian, better understood in this time period as wizard, sorcerer, or even witch. In fact, the masculine noun of this word is used to describe Simon Magus in Acts chapter 8 and Elymas the sorcerer in Acts chapter 13 who were not Magi, but just run of the mill sorcerers. So in some translations they named them wise men and tradition labeled them as three Kings, even though the number is not specified in the Bible. The gifts that the Magi gave Christ was a treasure, not trinket gifts. Matthew 2:11 And as indicated they may have been the first to worship Him.
The custom or tradition that the Magi were from the east and His star appeared in the east, is a contradiction. (Matt. 2:1-2) If the Magi would have been from the orient or east of Jerusalem and saw His star in the east they would be following the star in the opposite direction of Bethlehem/Nazareth. So this simply does not make any sense...unless they saw it from somewhere else. This group of Magi although not all Egyptians were probably from the area around Alexandria, Egypt and maybe they saw it in the sky east of Egypt. Also it should be noted that the star is a light, not a heavenly body because it moves, not in straight lines, and rests and according to some traditions casts a light to where Christ was. So the light could have hovered east of Alexandria and the Magi followed it around the Mediterranean, coming from the east to Nazareth by way of Jerusalem. Another contradiction resolved.
Then God spoke to the Magi in a dream and warned them not to return to King Herod. So they departed for their own country by another way. Matt. 2:12 Then in the next verse Matt. 2:13... Now when they had gone, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up! Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is going to search for the Child to destroy Him.”
Then in Matthew 2:19-20 But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, and said, “Get up, take the Child and His mother, and go into the land of Israel; for those who sought the Child’s life are dead.” Herod dies on March 12th 4 BC.
Spoiler Alert: Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.
The Bible indicates Christ’s ministry starts when He was baptized by John the Baptist. Luke 3:23 ----Luke 3:1 Indicates that John the Baptist starts Baptizing in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, which would be in the year 29 AD. Which means that you would have to push Christ’s crucifixion off to 33 AD, (Next available date for the Passover on a Sabbath.) which would mean that Christ was born after Herod’s death? Which would make Christ 36 years old or throws Matthew’s story of the Magi, Herod, and the killing of innocents out the window. So it would seem that Luke may have added incorrectly. To keep the timeline correct Christ ministry would have to start in 27 AD, plus or minus a few months.
Christ's week in Jerusalem
Palm Sunday
Matthew 21:1-11
Mark 11:1-11
Luke 19:28-44
John 12:12-19
Monday
Cleansed the Temple of the money changers
No broom a length of rope
Matthew 21:12
Mark 11:15-17
Luke 19:45-46
Tuesday
Mount of Olive sermon and parables
Matthew 21:23-24
Mark 11:20-13:27
Luke 20:1-21:36
John 12:20-38
Wednesday
The woman with the Alabaster Jar
Judas goes to negotiate Christ betrayal
Matthew 26:2-16
Mark 14:1-11
Luke 22:3-6
Thursday
The Last supper
Matthew 26:17---
Mark 14:12---
Luke 22:7---
John 13:1---
Friday
Passover---The Feast of Unleavened Bread----Hag Ha-Matzot.
Passover is one 24 hour period in the seven day Feast of Unleavened bread. The Jewish Passover occurs each year on the evening of the first full moon after the Spring Equinox.
One thing we know for sure, Christ was not crucified on the day He ate the His Last Supper. But the Jews would have normally been eating the Passover meal on the day Christ was crucified, that would be Friday.
Over the centuries there have been some confusion on which day the Last Supper occurred, and the circumstances of its occurrence. So before we go on let me explain. Traditionally in this time period, on the eve before the Passover the sacrificial lamb was slain and butchered ritualistically. The blood was collected ritualistically and applied to the doorways. (This is the Passover part of the ritual of the plaque of the first born.) Then the entire lamb was cooked over a fire and eaten entirely, with unleavened bread. (The sacrifice could be either an unblemished goat or lamb. You can read about this ritual in Exodus chapter 12.) This is not exactly what happened during the evening of the Last Supper. But the Gospels use the term Passover meal to refer to the Last Supper and also reference the Passover lamb being sacrificed on Thursday evening, from there, confusion ensued.
The Jewish Passover that year occurred on Saturday April 8th 30 AD, and started at dusk (As the Full Moon rose) on April 7th. Computerized astronomical calculations (NASA) shows a full Moon on the evening of April 7th when Passover began. So the Passover for that year occurred on the Jewish Sabbath...Saturday. Two Holy events occurring on the same day. Some refer to this as a High Holy Day, High Day, or High Sabbath for the Jews. The Lambs would have been killed on Friday, the afternoon of the 7th of April. But Christ would not be alive Friday evening. So in this instance there was an honorary Passover meal for Christ. As I said, we know that Christ did not eat the Last Supper on the day He was crucified.
He was the symbolic and divine sacrificial lamb and He was slain around 3:00 pm on the 7th of April, around the time that the actual sacrificial lambs were being slain. The Passover dinner for Him was held on the evening of the 6th of April...Thursday and they had a sacrificial lamb. The next day, the actual Passover lambs would be slaughtered and eaten on Friday evening/night...for the Passover dinners. Christ was the sacrificial lamb for the New Covenant and He was crucified during the day on Friday, about the time the sacrificial lambs for Passover were being killed. So Christ would not be observing the normal processes of the Passover and the Passover meal, and as it turned out, the same was true for the Apostles because they would be in hiding, not sacrificing lambs. They may have arranged for food to be brought to them, but they probably were not sacrificing lambs at the Temple while Christ was being crucified.
The meal that Christ attended was a meal that the Gospels refer to as the Passover meal, put it was not the actual Jewish Passover meal. As I explained, the next day was the Jewish day of preparation for the Passover, and the Jewish Passover meal would occur then. This was the day that Christ was slain. Matthew 27:62, Mark 15:42, Luke 23:54, John 19:14, 31, and 42, all confirm that the day that Christ was crucified was on the Day of Preparation, which was Friday, April 7th 30 AD. John 18:28 also proves that on Thursday night/Friday morning, the day of Christ’s crucifixion, the Apostles had not eaten the actual Passover meal yet. The morning cock had crowed for Peter John 18:27 Christ was before Pilate in the Praetorium and the Apostles did not enter because they did not want to be defiled because they wanted to eat the Passover. Which would be that evening. Another mystery solved....
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