Priests, elders, and scribes (Sanhedrin) (14:53), Jesus was found guiltyīy Pontius Pilate and crucified the next morning at "the third hour" (9 a.m.) Tried before the high priest and the assembled chief Jesus and his disciples went out to the Mount of Olives and then to the Garden of Gethsemaneīetrayed by Judas and arrested. The wine, signifying the shedding of his own blood. Jesus took the bread and broke it (as his own body would be broken) and then Preparations for a last supper were duly made and that evening,Īt what both Jesus and his disciples describe as a Passover meal, (14:12 also Matthew 26:17 Luke 22:15, "I have desired to eat this passover Jesus where they were to prepare the meal "that thou mayest eat the passover" He recounts that, on "the firstĭay of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover ," the disciples asked Markġ3:2, " there shall not be left one stone upon another, That year, the Romans had laid siege to Jerusalem, destroying the Second Templeįour months later (Josephus, The Jewish War, V.3.1, VI.4.8 cf. Mark was the first Gospel to be written, probably about AD 70 when, on Passover Whether that Friday was the Day of Passover or the Day of Preparation. The Passover while it still was being prepared (Nisan 14). Similar narrative, in contrast to John), Jesus is said to have been crucified andĭied after the Passover meal on what then was Passover day (Nisan 15). (Matthew, Mark, Luke so named because they share a This last supper and whether it truly was a Passover meal. XV.44 Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, XVIII.2.2, XVII.8.1 Luke 3:1 –2).īut there is disagreement as to whether Jesus died before or after Galilee (circa 4 BC –AD 39) (Tacitus, Annals, That these events occurred in the reign of Tiberius John 19:42), that he shared a Last Supper with his disciples the eveningīefore, and was crucified the next day -and The Gospels all agree that Jesus died on a Friday,Ī few hours before the Jewish Sabbath was to begin (Matthew 27:62, Mark 15:42, Luke 23:54, The appearance of the first stars in the evening sky, when the crescent moon (Twilight itself is that period between sunset and Sundown and the rising of the full moon on what then was Saturday, Nisan 15, theīeginning of Passover day. This was the Day of Preparation, in which the lamb prepared onġ4 was eaten later that evening -in the twilight after (Genesis 2:2), so too the Sabbath was to be a day in which "thou shalt not doĪny work" (Exodus 20:10 Leviticus 23:3) -as was theįirst day of the ensuing week-long Feast of Unleavened Bread thatįollowed the Passover (Leviticus 23:7, Deuteronomy16:3).Ĭelebrated on the Sabbath, it therefore had to be prepared well before sunset , With the Sabbath, another holy convocationĪs God had "rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made" Lord, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons"Ĭould fall on any day of the week but was especially sacred when it coincided The blood of a lamb so God would pass over them. The exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, who had marked their doorposts with This was the Passover feast commemorating With bread and bitter herbs (Exodus 12:8), on what then was the fifteenth day of the month. Leviticus 23:5, Numbers 28:16) when, that evening, it was to be sacrificed and eaten A lamb was to be kept "until the fourteenth day of the same month" (Exodus 12:6, March 25 was the beginning of the new year in the early Roman calendar). Inclusively and that both the first and last day were included in calculatingįirst month of the year to you" (Exodus 12:2) was to be Nisan, whichĬorresponds to March/April (just as the vernal equinox on It is important to remember, too, that days were counted Įven if moments old, a portion of a day counted as the whole-and so in the Jerusalem Talmud "day and night each are a term, and part of a term is like the whole" ( Shabbat, Place on that day and, after sunset, the next. An event that occurred just before sunset (the twelfth hour, 6 p.m.) was counted as taking Potentially confusing, it really is not so different than one beginning at midnight sixĭaylight hours, however, still were measuredįrom sunrise (6 a.m.). Although the notion of a new day beginning on the evening of the Friday, for example, began at sunset on Thursday andĮnded at sunset on Friday, which was the beginning of Saturday, the Jewish Genesis 1:5, "And the evening and morning The beginning of a new one, which extended to sunset the next day (night andĭay, rather than day and night cf. Therefore, that the setting sun should signify the end of the day and sunset Sunset, the full moon rising about two weeks later. When the light of the new crescent moon became visible in Jerusalem shortly after The traditional Jewish calendar of the firstĬentury AD was lunar, in which the first day of each month was determined by Return to Sol Invictus The Death of Jesus
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