THIRD DAY PROVES A THURSDAY CRUCIFIXION

[Grailhunter]

Again, only the meals for the weekly Sabbath required them to prepare enough food for two days. On Nisan 14, they only had to prepare enough food for the meal to be eaten that evening. Then the next day (Nisan 15 and the first festival sabbath), they were able to prepare that day the feast to be eaten that evening. Same thing with Nisan 21 (the second festival sabbath), they did not have to prepare enough food on Nisan 20 for two days.

So again, the only "Sabbath" on the Jewish calendar that required enough food to be prepared for two days because no work at all could be done on that Sabbath, not even preparing the food for the feast, was the weekly Sabbath. So the day before was always "the Preparation," because they had to prepare enough food for two days.

The restrictions for Passover and the Saturday Jewish Sabbath are easy enough for you or anyone to look up. So there is no need for us to debate them.

 

[Grailhunter]

So trying to "time" his death to the passover, or any other sacrifice in order to "link" his death to them is futile when his death fulfilled sacrifices that were offered up day in and day out throughout the year, year after year. That one sacrifice fulfilled them all.

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 before dusk. The Jewish Saturday Sabbath started Friday at dusk and in this case so did Passover.

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 ritually. The blood was collected ritually and applied to the doorways. (This is the Passover part of the ritual of the plaque of the first born, but this changed…Deuteronomy 16:2-6 The change was that the sacrificial lamb was slain at the doorway of the tabernacle….and then the Temple….This means that in the biblical era the Passover was a gathering of Jews at the Temple…

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. Neither the Jews or Christian call the Jewish Passover meal the Last Supper they are two different meals.

The Jewish Passover which lasts around 7 days, that year occurred on Saturday April 8th 30 AD, and started at dusk (As the Full Moon rose) on April 7th. “The Jewish day” starts at dusk. So the Jewish Sabbath and the beginning of Passover occurring on the same day, that year, at dusk. Confusing? Our days shift at midnight…Jewish days shift at dusk…dusk begins the new day.

Computerized astronomical calculations (NASA) shows a full Moon on the evening of April 7th when the Passover began at dusk. So the Passover for that year occurred on the Jewish Sabbath...Saturday but started on Friday at dusk. 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. John 19:31 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 that we call the Last Supper because it was Christ’s last supper. As I said, we know that Christ did not eat the Last Supper on the day He was crucified. If we look at Matthew 16:21-25 and Yeshua's disagreement with Peter, we can see that He knew what was going to happen and when.

He was the symbolic and divine sacrificial lamb and He was slain around 3:00 pm on the Friday, the 7th of April, around the time that the actual sacrificial lambs were being slain. So the Passover dinner for Him was held on the evening of the 6th of April...Thursday and they had a sacrificial lamb for His Last Supper. The next day, the actual Passover lambs would be slaughtered and eaten on Friday before dusk 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 at the Temple. They may have arranged for food to be brought to them, but they probably were not sacrificing lambs while Christ was being crucified.

The meal that Christ attended was a meal that the Gospels refer to as the Passover meal, a Seder 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...Friday...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 early Friday morning, the day of Christ’s crucifixion, when Christ was taken to the Praetorium the Apostles had not eaten the actual Passover meal yet. The morning cock had crowed for Peter John 18:27 So when Christ was before Pilate in the Praetorium the Apostles did not enter because they did not want to be defiled because they wanted to participate in the actual Passover meal before the start of Passover. John 18:28 Then the Jews, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. John 19:31 Another mystery solved....

Why April 7th 30 AD?
The death of Herod is well documented, so is the date of his successors. So in order to include the story of the Herod, the Magi, the Star, and death of the innocences, Christ's birth has to happen before Herod's death. March 12th 4 BC. Now if you go to add this up from Christ's birth to the day of his Crucifixion, keep in mind that you lose a year between 1 BC and 1 AD. No year zero, so one year passes between April 1 BC and April 1 AD. So in 30 AD Christ would have been 33 years old, give or take a few months.

We can consider April 3rd 33 AD, but Christ would be 36 years old and since it was said that Christ started His ministry when He was 30 years old, that would make His ministry 6 years long. So odds are, it is 30 AD.

Now the calculation for Passover is based on the cycle of the moon. And goes like this...Passover will occur on the first full moon after the vernal equinox. Most of the time that is in April on our calendar. Then Easter is the next Sunday after that.

So Christ is crucified on Friday April 7th 30 AD and then the Passover starts that evening at dusk along with the Jewish Sabbath. That night has a Full Moon. And this goes along with the double Sabbath tradition, ie Passover falling on the Jewish Sabbath, Saturday. Keep in mind that the Hebrew month always started on the New Moon, so the Passover would “always” occur 15 days later on the full Moon….that does not mean that the Passover would always occur on the Sabbath Saturday, because the new month did not reset the days of the week. (Jewish Sabbath Saturday…different than the Christian Sunday.) Hebrew days of the month vs Gregorian days of the month, there is a confusion factor there, but I will try to explain.

 

[Grailhunter]

But the Sabbath fell on Nisan 16 that year.

Nope.
The Passover always occurs on a full moon.
On April 7th 30 AD Friday, Yeshua was crucified. At dusk was the beginning of Passover and the Saturday Jewish Sabbath. That was Nisan 15.
The New Moon resets the Jewish month. Passover occurs at the first full moon after the spring Vernal equinox.
The full moon always occurs Nisan 15.....or in other words 15 days after the New Moon.

The confusion for some people is that our day stops at midnight.
The days in the Jewish month stops at dusk and the new day start.
So as we count Passover starts the 14th day of the month, but as the Jews counted it, it started dusk on the 14th.....the 14th day end and 15th day starts.

 

[Pilgrimer]

One thing we know for sure, Christ was not crucified on the day He ate the His Last Supper

Jesus ate his last supper on Thursday evening, which was the beginning of Nisan 15. He was crucified the next day, Friday, which was still Nisan 15 on the Jewish calendar.

But the Jews would have normally been eating the Passover meal on the day Christ was crucified

They would have been eating one of the seven passover meals the evening after Jesus was crucified, the second meal of the passover. And the next evening they would have eaten the third meal of the passover, while Jesus' body "rested" on the Sabbath in the tomb.

on the eve before the Passover the sacrificial lamb was slain and butchered ritually.

It would help if you would use Biblical dates. When you say "the eve before the Passover," I don't really know precisely what you mean by that. The lambs were slain on the Passover, on Nisan 14: "In the fourteenth day at evening is the Lord's Passover." The 14th Nisan is the Passover, when the Passover sacrifice was observed.

The Passover lambs were eaten after sunset which was the beginning of Nisan 15 and the first meal of Unleavened Bread. Both the slaying of the lamb in the afternoon of Nisan 14 and the meal eaten that night on Nisan 15, were on the say week day, Thursday, and on our same calendar date (April 6) but on the Jewish calendar the lambs were slain on the afternoon of the 14th and they were eaten that night at the start of the 15th.

The Jewish Passover which lasts around 7 days, that year occurred on Saturday April 8th 30 AD, and started at dusk (As the Full Moon rose) on April 7th

But you have yet to provide any evidence to support that dating. Based on when the astronomical new moon occurred that month, the Passover would have begun at sunset Wednesday (the beginning of Nisan 14, April 6 on our calendar) and again, according to NASA, the full moon that spring occurred on Thursday night, April 6 on our calendar, Nisan 15 on the Jewish calendar.

Where do you get those dates from?

Computerized astronomical calculations (NASA) shows a full Moon on the evening of April 7th

Actually, no it doesn't. I am attaching a snip of NASA's catalog that lists the moon's phases for that year and you can see that the full moon of the spring month actually occurred on the night of April 6 at 7:43 p.m. That was a Thursday night and that was when Jesus was praying in the moonlit garden of Gethsamane before he was arrested.

I think you have all the mechanics correct, you've obviously done a lot of study, but your dating is off because it's based on the assumption that John was saying they had not yet eaten the first passover meal when there were actually seven meals and Matthew, Mark, and Luke specifically stated Jesus ate the Passover, which could only have been the first meal on Thursday, April 6, the beginning of Nisan 15.

 

[Grailhunter]

Jesus ate his last supper on Thursday evening, which was the beginning of Nisan 15. He was crucified the next day, Friday, which was still Nisan 15 on the Jewish calendar.

Nope Nisan 15 began on Friday at dusk. By that time Yeshua's body was taken off the cross.
That night was the night of the full moon.....NASA can track it. The beginning of Passover always start on the night of the Full Moon.

Again this is something that people can look up....
The Passover always starts on the night of a full moon.
On April 7th 30 AD Friday, Yeshua was crucified. At dusk was the beginning of Passover and the Saturday Jewish Sabbath. That was Nisan 15.
The New Moon resets the Jewish month. Passover occurs at the first full moon after the spring Vernal equinox.
The full moon always occurs Nisan 15.....or in other words 15 days after the New Moon.

The confusion for some people is that our day stops at midnight.
The days in the Jewish month stops at dusk and the new day start.
So as we count Passover starts the 14th day of the month, but as the Jews counted it, it started dusk on the 14th.....the 14th day end and 15th day starts.

 

[Grailhunter]

They would have been eating one of the seven passover meals the evening after Jesus was crucified, the second meal of the passover. And the next evening they would have eaten the third meal of the passover, while Jesus' body "rested" on the Sabbath in the tomb.

Nope

Number of Passover Meals (Seder Nights)​

During Passover, the number of Passover meals — specifically Seder nights — depends on your location:

• In Israel: There is one Seder — on the first night of Passover, which is the 15th of Nisan Chabad.org.
• In the Diaspora (outside Israel): There are two Seders — on the first night and the second night of Passover.

The Passover meal (Pesach in Hebrew), known as the Seder, is a key part of the Jewish festival of Passover, which celebrates the Israelites' escape from slavery in Egypt. While traditions vary across different communities, the Seder follows a structured order filled with symbolic foods, prayers and storytelling. Passover lasts seven or eight days, depending on the location. While the Seder takes place on the first night in Israel, in many other countries, there are two Seders on the first and second night of Pesach. Some Passover meal traditions are lively and theatrical, with songs and skits, while others are brief and focused on the meal itself. No matter the style, certain customs and symbols remain central.

 

[Grailhunter]

It would help if you would use Biblical dates. When you say "the eve before the Passover," I don't really know precisely what you mean by that. The lambs were slain on the Passover, on Nisan 14: "In the fourteenth day at evening is the Lord's Passover." The 14th Nisan is the Passover, when the Passover sacrifice was observed.

The Passover lambs were eaten after sunset which was the beginning of Nisan 15 and the first meal of Unleavened Bread. Both the slaying of the lamb in the afternoon of Nisan 14 and the meal eaten that night on Nisan 15, were on the say week day, Thursday, and on our same calendar date (April 6) but on the Jewish calendar the lambs were slain on the afternoon of the 14th and they were eaten that night at the start of the 15th.

Nope.
You said----> The lambs were slain on the Passover, on Nisan 14: "In the fourteenth day at evening is the Lord's Passover." The 14th Nisan is the Passover, when the Passover sacrifice was observed.
They are sacrificed and ritually slaughtered, cooked and eaten before dusk on the Nisan 14. But Nisan 14 is not Passover....That is "The preparation day."


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Timing of the Last Supper and the Day of Preparation​

The Last Supper and the Day of Preparation are not the same day, but they are closely linked in the biblical narrative.
The Day of Preparation
In Judaism, the Day of Preparation was the day before the Sabbath, when people made final preparations for rest and worship on the Sabbath. It was a time to prepare food, complete work, and prepare for the holy day Bible Gateway+1. In the Gospels, Jesus was crucified on this day (Matthew 27:62; Mark 15:42; Luke 23:54; John 19:14). In Passover week, this day also coincided with the preparation for the Passover sacrifices, when the Passover lambs were slaughtered (John 19:14) GotQuestions.org+1.
The Last Supper
The Synoptic Gospels (Matthew 26:17–29; Mark 14:12–25; Luke 22:7–22) describe the Last Supper as a Passover meal eaten with Jesus and His disciples. This meal took place on the first day of Unleavened Bread, the evening before the Day of Preparation www.answerthebible.com+1. The Passover lamb was eaten on the 14th of Nisan, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread began the next day Bible Gateway.
Chronology

• Thursday night: Last Supper (Passover meal)
• Friday (Day of Preparation): Jesus was crucified; Passover lambs slaughtered; preparations for the Sabbath GotQuestions.org+1
• Saturday: Sabbath
• Sunday: Resurrection

Why the confusion?
John 13:1 says the Last Supper was “just before the Passover Feast,” while the Synoptics call it the Passover meal. This difference may be due to:

• Different ways of counting days in first-century Judaism (sunrise-to-sunrise vs. sunset-to-sunset) Bible Hub
• John’s use of “Preparation of the Passover” to mean the day before the official Passover sacrifices, while the Synoptics focus on the Passover meal itself.

When did the Last Supper occur?
The Last Supper was not the Day of Preparation — it was the evening meal before the Day of Preparation. The Day of Preparation was the Friday before the Sabbath, when Jesus was crucified and the Passover lambs were sacrificed.

 

[Grailhunter]

But you have yet to provide any evidence to support that dating. Based on when the astronomical new moon occurred that month, the Passover would have begun at sunset Wednesday (the beginning of Nisan 14, April 6 on our calendar) and again, according to NASA, the full moon that spring occurred on Thursday night, April 6 on our calendar, Nisan 15 on the Jewish calendar.

Where do you get those dates from?

I have already explained this. Post 22
The date is figured off the Year Yeshua was born and approximately 33 years.
Herod died in March 4 BC, Yeshua was born shortly before that.
Also since Passover starts on the evening of the full moon, NASA can provide that data.

 

[Grailhunter]

Jesus ate his last supper on Thursday evening, which was the beginning of Nisan 15. He was crucified the next day, Friday, which was still Nisan 15 on the Jewish calendar.

They would have been eating one of the seven passover meals the evening after Jesus was crucified, the second meal of the passover. And the next evening they would have eaten the third meal of the passover, while Jesus' body "rested" on the Sabbath in the tomb.

It would help if you would use Biblical dates. When you say "the eve before the Passover," I don't really know precisely what you mean by that. The lambs were slain on the Passover, on Nisan 14: "In the fourteenth day at evening is the Lord's Passover." The 14th Nisan is the Passover, when the Passover sacrifice was observed.

The Passover lambs were eaten after sunset which was the beginning of Nisan 15 and the first meal of Unleavened Bread. Both the slaying of the lamb in the afternoon of Nisan 14 and the meal eaten that night on Nisan 15, were on the say week day, Thursday, and on our same calendar date (April 6) but on the Jewish calendar the lambs were slain on the afternoon of the 14th and they were eaten that night at the start of the 15th.

But you have yet to provide any evidence to support that dating. Based on when the astronomical new moon occurred that month, the Passover would have begun at sunset Wednesday (the beginning of Nisan 14, April 6 on our calendar) and again, according to NASA, the full moon that spring occurred on Thursday night, April 6 on our calendar, Nisan 15 on the Jewish calendar.

Where do you get those dates from?

Actually, no it doesn't. I am attaching a snip of NASA's catalog that lists the moon's phases for that year and you can see that the full moon of the spring month actually occurred on the night of April 6 at 7:43 p.m. That was a Thursday night and that was when Jesus was praying in the moonlit garden of Gethsamane before he was arrested.

I think you have all the mechanics correct, you've obviously done a lot of study, but your dating is off because it's based on the assumption that John was saying they had not yet eaten the first passover meal when there were actually seven meals and Matthew, Mark, and Luke specifically stated Jesus ate the Passover, which could only have been the first meal on Thursday, April 6, the beginning of Nisan 15.

From NASA's website. It show Friday night as the Full Moon. The Jewish day start Friday at dusk.

 

[Pilgrimer]

From NASA's website. It show Friday night as the Full Moon. The Jewish day start Friday at dusk.

Here is the link to the datasets of NASA's "Six Millennium Catalog of Lunar Phases" published on AstroPixels
NASA dataset
Could you please provide a link to the chart you posted of the lunar phases so I can verify it? Obviously, one of us has some wrong information.

 

[Pilgrimer]

I have already explained this. Post 22
The date is figured off the Year Yeshua was born and approximately 33 years.
Herod died in March 4 BC, Yeshua was born shortly before that.
Also since Passover starts on the evening of the full moon, NASA can provide that data.

The year Jesus was born does not define the dates or days on which the Passover was observed. When Nisan (and every month for that matter) began was based solely on when the spotters in Jerusalem saw the first sliver of a crescent of the new moon.

So while I have done extensive study on dating the birth of Jesus, and I agree with you that it was shortly before the death of Herod in late March of 4 B.C., it doesn't help us pinpoint the chronology of Passion Week which was solely determined by the observation of the new moon.

 

[Grailhunter]

Here is the link to the datasets of NASA's "Six Millennium Catalog of Lunar Phases" published on AstroPixels
NASA dataset
Could you please provide a link to the chart you posted of the lunar phases so I can verify it? Obviously, one of us has some wrong information.
View attachment 84783

I am still looking for the one I used but here is one.

Moon Phase Calculator: Calendar, Path, Special Events

Interactive calculator/calendar to track moon phases. Moon path, visualizations, supermoons, blue moons, moonrise/sets, sky position, and more for any location.

dqydj.com

 

[Grailhunter]

The year Jesus was born does not define the dates or days on which the Passover was observed. When Nisan (and every month for that matter) began was based solely on when the spotters in Jerusalem saw the first sliver of a crescent of the new moon.

So while I have done extensive study on dating the birth of Jesus, and I agree with you that it was shortly before the death of Herod in late March of 4 B.C., it doesn't help us pinpoint the chronology of Passion Week which was solely determined by the observation of the new moon.

We know that Yeshua was 33 years and some months old when He was crucified.
Yeshua was probably born a in late 5 BC or early 4 BC. If we count 33 years forward, remembering that there is no year zero between BC and AD, we come up with 30 AD. And Him being 33, plus or minus a few months old.
And from the Bible we know that Yeshua was crucified the day before Passover and the Sabbath that year.
So we come up with April 7th 30 AD.

 

[William Barton]

o In the tomb Friday afternoon
o In the tomb all day Saturday
o Raised from the tomb Sunday morning
Three calendar days.

 

[Pilgrimer]

I am still looking for the one I used but here is one.

Moon Phase Calculator: Calendar, Path, Special Events

Interactive calculator/calendar to track moon phases. Moon path, visualizations, supermoons, blue moons, moonrise/sets, sky position, and more for any location.

dqydj.com

My apologies for my absence, it was unavoidable. But in rereading our conversation to catch back up and looking more closely at your chart, I noticed that the lunar phases on your chart actually show what I have been saying.

Accordingn to your chart, the moon reached it's full phase beginning when the moon rose on Thursday night, April 6. That night, Thursday night, April 6, the Jews sat down to eat the first Passover meal under the full moon. That full moon continued until it set on Friday morning, April 7. So all the people of Israel, including Jesus and the disciples, sat down on the evening of April 6 (Thursday) and ate the first Passover under the full moon. Later that Thursday night, Jesus was arrested. The full moon ended when the moon set the next morning, which was Friday morning, April 7. So even by your chart, it is not possible that there would have been a full moon the night of April 7 into the morning of April 8.

So on our calendar, the full moon spanned from Thursday evening, April 6 (at 7:43 p.m. according to NASA) to Friday morning, April 7.

To correlate this with the Jewish calendar, the Passover lambs were slain on the afternoon of Nisan 14 (just before the full moon). Then they all sat down to eat this first Passover meal that night under the full moon which was the beginning of Nisan 15 because the Jewish days began at sunset.

So even your own chart shows that the first Passover meal would have been on Thursday night, April 6. Which is why Matthew (26:17), Mark ( 14:12) and Luke (22:7) all state that the Passover that Jesus sent them into the city to make ready was "the first day of Unleavened Bread." This would have been the first Passover meal. There would be six more passover meals the Jews would have made sacrifices for in the afternoon and eaten that evening, and any defilement contracted (defilment lasted 24 hours) would have excluded them from eating the meal that fell within that defilement period. Jesus was crucified the morning after the first passover meal, but the people would have continued to eat six more passover meals. The Pharisees would have been excluded from eating any of those next six passover meals if they became defiled. That defilement commandment did not apply only to the first meal but to all seven meals. John doesn't actually say which of the seven passover meals he is talking about, but perhaps since he wrote his Gospel after the others, he knew that was already well-established and he was adding to the record, not reinventing it.

Another minor point but it bears mentioning: there were two days on which the Jews of the Disapora observed Nisan 14. The reason was that the official start of each month, and therefore the day on which the feasts fell, was determined by visual observations in Jerusalem, when spotters literally saw in the sky the first faint sliver of the new moon. That's why it is called the "crescent new moon" as opposed to the "astronomical new moon" which is when the moon is completely in shadow and cannot be seen, the "dark of the moon." Once the official spotters saw the moon begin to emerge from the earth's shadow and the first sliver of a crescent was visible, they notified the Sanhedrin they had seen the new moon, the new month was officially declared, and word was relayed (by signal fires) throughout the land.

The problem is, the first crescent of the new moon could become visible on the first night after the astronomical new moon or it could be on the second night after. So there was a problem for those living in the farflung lands of the Diaspora. Official word of which night the crescent new moon had been spotted would not reach them in time for the observance because there were only 14 days between the official new moon and passover, and for many, communication could take weeks. So to be sure they did not improperly observe the Passover, those of the Diaspora observed it on two nights knowing one of those two nights would be the correct one. But that was only practiced by those of the Diaspora for legal reasons. For those living in Israel, they were obliged to observe the Passover according to the official reckoning of the Temple which was very specific on the timing of Torah observance, and it is meticulously spelled out in the Mishnah Tractate "Pesach." That is the timing that would have governed the events of Easter week. And with our ability to calculate the lunar phases down to the minute, we can recreate the events based on how the Jews historically observed the passover, irrespective of conflicting opinions.

I am attaching something I created for my own study. It hinges on the actual lunar phases calculated by NASA and taking into account the Gospel records and historical Torah observance. It helped me get all this sorted out in my mind, and you might find it helpful. I hope so.

Blessings in Christ ...

 

[Ronald Nolette]

I can show how I know Thursday was Nissan 15th, the day Christ was crucified.

[Luke 24:20 KJV] "And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him."
[Luke 24:21 KJV] "But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done." ******** These things that were done are found in v20, which was Christ's crucifixion. We can use this verse to establish a timeline.

Wednesday................Nissan the 14th is the 1st day of the passover feast of unleavened bread when they killed the lamb and prepared the passover meal *********** [Exodus 12:6 KJV] "And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening."
[Exodus 12:18 KJV] "In the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even."
[Matthew 26:17 KJV] "Now the first [day] of the [feast of] unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?"

Thursday......... Nissan the 15th was the first day of refraining from leaven for 7 days ********** [Leviticus 23:6 KJV] "And on the fifteenth day of the same month [is] the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread." ********** If Wednesday is the 14th then Thursday, is the 15th. This day was a high day sabbath, a holy convocation. John says this is preparation in John 19:14 and John 19:31. CHRIST WAS CRUCIFIED THIS DAY, and is when Luke 24:21 says "these things were done.".

Friday ..........This is the first day "since these things were done"

Saturday..........This is the second day "since these things were done"

Sunday.............This is the THIRD DAY "since these things were done". We know Sunday was the third day "since these things were done" by the context of Luke 24. Luke 24:1 says this whole chapter took place on Sunday, the first day of the week. Luke 24:13 says it was the "same day", which was Sunday.

It has been proved Wednesday was Nissan the 14th, Thursday was Nissan the 15th, Jesus was crucified Thursday the 15th of Nissan, Nissan the 15th was a high day sabbath and the preparation.

Well Calanders and Scripture prove you wrong.

John 19:31
The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

YOu should let Scripture speak for itself. 2000 years of people searching this out are not wrong.