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This Hebrew day correlates to the following day on the Julian calendar as noted in the chart below column 5. Column 6 is Passover dates for the given years. But as noted above, it is the visible crescent that established the 1st of Nisan which occurred on the 2nd evening after Equinox.

A Passover on Wednesday is the only day of the week that works with all Biblical accounts of the crucifixion. Yahshua was in the grave "three days and three nights" Matthew From Wednesday just before sunset [even] to Saturday just before sunset [even] is three days and three nights.

According to the Law of Moses, the day following Passover which is also the first day of the feast of unleavened bread is also, always a Sabbath day of rest to be observed like the 7th day weekly Sabbath no matter what day of the week it falls on.

He ruled until a. However, it is more probable to place it sometime in the first half of the year a. Even if there were only three Passovers, this would still make a date of a. The second would fall in a. But if John the Baptist began his ministry in a. Then the Passovers in John would occur on the following dates:. In the year a. While this is in our judgment the most likely scenario, it should be acknowledged that many believe Jesus was crucified in the year a.

However, there is no reliable ancient historical evidence for such co-regency. How likely is that? For these reasons, I am inclined to dismiss the lunar eclipse argument as having any significance in determining the day of the Crucifixion. Surely that has a bearing on whether there was a blood moon, science be hanged? The quote in full reads ESV :. And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; even on my male servants and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.

And I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke; the sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the day of the Lord comes, the great and magnificent day. And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Acts , quoting Joel a. Every interpreter of Scripture will have to make up their own mind how likely this was. For my part, accounting for what Dr. At any rate, for now I want to set aside the whole eclipse debate and look to the Word alone. I believe it does, but it is not immediately obvious. We first have to go back to the Old Testament to see how God set up the first Passover, then how the Jews subsequently celebrated it.

There are four important passages we need to look at. Exodus 12 records the story ESV :. This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household…. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight….

They shall eat the flesh that night , roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. And you shall let none of it remain until the morning ; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn…. The takeaways here are that on the first month of the Jewish religious year, which is called Nisan, on the fourteenth day of the month as that day begins at twilight the Jewish day begins around 6 pm in the evening , the Passover lamb was to be killed.

It was kept in the household from Nisan 10 until Nisan 14 began, so the slaughtering of the lamb was just after the onset of Nisan Then, that same evening of the start of Nisan 14, the lamb was to be eaten as part of a meal that included unleavened bread. Remember that according to Scripture, the lamb was both killed and eaten on Nisan It was not killed ahead of time on Nisan 13 for eating on Nisan 14, nor was it killed on Nisan 14 and then eaten on Nisan Moreover, it was a meal involving the eating of unleavened bread, a detail having a bearing on understanding other matters later.

These are the appointed feasts of the LORD, the holy convocations, which you shall proclaim at the time appointed for them. And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall have a holy convocation ; you shall not do any ordinary work…. On the seventh day is a holy convocation ; you shall not do any ordinary work Lev. On the fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD's Passover , and on the fifteenth day of this month is a feast.

Seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten. On the first day there shall be a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work…. And on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work Num. These two passages establish some additional facts for us. To this we add an additional fact, the next day—Nisan 15—would be the start of the seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread.

Thus, Nisan 14 was a day of unleavened bread, but it was not technically part of the Feast of Unleavened Bread that starts on Nisan This is an important point to keep in mind when we look at the Passover in the New Testament. This was because the dates of the month Nisan were determined via a lunar calendar, such that Nisan 15 landed on different days of the week in different years. Finally, 2 Chronicles 35 gives us insight into the way the Jews practiced the Passover seder the meal of the lamb, unleavened bread and bitter herbs eaten on Nisan 14 :.

And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the first month…. And they roasted the Passover lamb with fire according to the rule; and they boiled the holy offerings in pots, in cauldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the lay people…. Why am I emphasizing these things? This article first appeared at First Things on April 3, Justin Taylor is executive vice president and publisher for books at Crossway.

Categories: Gospels NT Studies. The post was somewhat unclear whether Jesus attended all the Passovers available. Are you speaking about textual Passovers or actual? One thing is abundantly clear: Jesus, according to the O. Your email address will not be published.