Jesus Christ was crucified on the Passover, the 14th day of Abib, and died at the 9th hour or at about three in the afternoon. This day was also “the preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath.” (See Mark 15:34-38, 42; Luke 23:44-46, 54; John 19:14, 31, 42; Levi...
The answer is that there were two sabbaths the week Christ was crucified (one weekly and one annual). If you look at Leviticus 23 where the annual sabbaths (high days) are listed, you will see that the day after Passover is a high (annual) sabbath (Lev 23:6-7). Christ kept the...
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Before we even get to the month and day debate, historians generally agree that we've got the year of Christ's birth all wrong. How can that be, though, if "year 1" on the Gregorian calendar was based on the year that Jesus was born? The short answer? The man who invented the id...
And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh. Matthew 26:2 Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified. Mark 14:1 After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and...
But he had Jesus flogged, and handed Him over to be crucified.John 19:12-16From then on, Pilate tried to release Him, but the Jews kept shouting, “If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who declares himself a king is defying Caesar.” / When Pilate heard ...
32 Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him. 33 And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. 34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with...
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He never stopped even from the cross, when he prayed for intercession for those that crucified him: “Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing” (Luke 23:34). Our model is Jesus Christ himself. Our duty on this path of discipleship is to be willing to be self...
What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me." Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that 15 his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. During supper, when the...