Why do we need to look at the timeline for Jesus’s death and resurrection?
There has been a misleading from what is truth. Most Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus at particular time and date of every year calling it Easter. Whereas some Jewish people still celebrate the Passover and Unfermented bread.
The Passover date has to be calculated every year. The calculation has to be done because this festival is based on a lunar observance that corresponds to a solar solstice that requires an adjustment to the lunar calendar or timeline every year. This adjustment happens at the spring equinox.
Setting The Appointed Time
Genesis 1:14… Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night. They will serve as signs for festivals and for days and years. They will be lights in the expanse of the sky to provide light on the earth.” And it was so. God made the two great lights—the greater light to have dominion over the day and the lesser light to have dominion over the night—as well as the stars.
So, the Sun, Moon, and Stars are to be used to determine the time and the seasons for the celebration of God’s appointed feasts. Let us identify how each of these luminaries plays a part in the calculation of time.
The Sun role is a constant for the earth and our lives. We have the equinox in the spring and the fall that are halfway markers for a full year that are now 365 days long. We have the solstice both in the summer and winter that helps make up one fourth of the year. This helps us identify the earths position in relation to the Sun. God called for his first festival celebration to be in the Springtime after the equinox.
The position of the stars lets us know what season we find ourselves in. Because we have divided up months we have 12 celestial signs that men have named and have identified that occur on a regular basis throughout the year. The star sign of Aries would be prominent in the time of the spring festival.
The moon would renew itself 12.5 times per year at the time the God created these luminaries, and everything was perfect this timing was perfect before the flood.
At the time God gave the command that his appointed festivals should be observed by observing the precise time of the new moon, it was impossible for men standing upon the earth. Men had to wait for the first glimpse of the sun to shine back upon the moon as a sliver of a crescent the waxing of the moon.
Then the decree would go forth that the new moon had occurred. From the time that the moon began this new moon phase was a time that was referred to as The Days of Darkness, and it would last about three days. So, man had to count back or adjust the new moon sighting from month to month, in fact this is how they would establish there seven-day Sabbath every month, it was off this the new moon calculation.
Numbers 10:10… You are to sound the trumpets over your burnt offerings and your fellowship sacrifices and on your joyous occasions, your appointed festivals, and the beginning of each of your months. They will serve as a reminder for you before your God: I am Yahweh your God.
The Lunar calendar is no longer in wide use today so understanding how this adjustment is to be made is very important because it is becoming a lost art. The Farmer’s almanac still uses a lunar observance with an overlay to the Gregorian calendar for planting purposes. We now have scientists who can calculate when the new moon and other celestial bodies or events are going to occur in real time.
The second factor for this calculation of Passover is based on the observance of the barley harvest, and it has to be ready for the presenting of the first fruits of the barley harvest to God. This was an important part of the celebration as it was commanded by God as an offering on the 16th of Nisan. Leviticus 23:10-14
So, how do you celebrate this time of the year? Some observe the death of Jesus and understand the significance of the pouring out of his blood. Others will observe the Lord’s evening meal and understand the risk of death that the firstborn of mankind had to endure. Some others will observe Passover and celebrate the deliverance from the angel of destruction.
How many people will observe the seven days of eating of the unfermented cakes as they celebrated following God’s angel out of Egypt? So, this brings to mind the following questions: what day did Christ die on and what day was he resurrected on? To answer these questions, we need help from a timeline.
After the flood when God gave to Noah these instructions for the celebration. God knew that time and timing would now need an adjustment yearly. No longer would the earth circle the in solar system around the sun for 364 days it would now take 365 days. The day and night cycle went from 18 hours to 24 hours.
All of this because of God’s judgment on the earth. The earth had suffered a blow to it, it is now tilted on its axes, and now it takes longer to cycle around the Sun each year. Enoch 72:12-14,32
The Appointed Time Has Arrived
There is a lot of detail that needs to be reviewed about the time of Passover and this celebration of unfermented or unleavened bread. From the first day that the first celebration all the way back to the time the Israelite nation was to leave Egypt till the time Christ came to free mankind from the corruption and enslavement to sin. Let us start with what Christ said about getting ready for Passover.
Luke 22:7-8… The day of the unfermented cakes (G106) now arrived, (G2064) on which the Passover [victim] must be sacrificed; and he dispatched Peter and John, saying: “Go and get the Passover ready for us to eat.” They said to him: “Where do you want us to get [it] ready?”
What does it mean for the cake or bread to be unfermented?
In Strong’s Concordance the Greek word #G106 azumos, it is translated as unleavened. The term unfermented cakes is meant for us to understand that it had no yeast in it. So, why was that important for the bread not to have yeast used in it?
The Jewish people would need to remove any leaven or yest from in their houses before the start of Nisan 14th because obedience meant their lives, whereas disobedience would mean their death. Exodus 12:19-20
Let us review God instructions to Moses.
Exodus 12:1-19… The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: 2“This month is to be the beginning of months for you; it is the first month of your year. 3Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month they must each select an animal of the flock according to their fathers’ households, one animal per household. 4If the household is too small for a whole animal, that person and the neighbor nearest his house are to select one based on the combined number of people; you should apportion the animal according to what each person will eat. 5 You must have an unblemished animal, a year-old male; you may take it from either the sheep or the goats…
6 You are to keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembly of the community of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight. 7 They must take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses where they eat them. 8 They are to eat the meat that night; they should eat it, roasted over the fire along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs…
Do not eat any of it raw or cooked in boiling water but only roasted over fire—its head as well as its legs and inner organs. 10 Do not let any of it remain until morning; you must burn up any part of it that does remain before morning. 11 Here is how you must eat it: you must be dressed for travel, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You are to eat it in a hurry; it is the Lord’s Passover. 12 “I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night and strike every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. I am Yahweh; I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt. 13 The blood on the houses where you are staying will be a distinguishing mark for you; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will be among you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. 14 “This day is to be a memorial for you, and you must celebrate it as a festival to the Lord. You are to celebrate it throughout your generations as a permanent statute…
15 You must eat unleavened bread for seven days. On the first day you must remove yeast from your houses. Whoever eats what is leavened from the first day through the seventh day must be cut off from Israel. 16 You are to hold a sacred assembly on the first day and another sacred assembly on the seventh day. No work may be done on those days except for preparing what people need to eat—you may do only that. 17 You are to observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread because on this very day I brought your divisions out of the land of Egypt. You must observe this day throughout your generations as a permanent statute. 18 You are to eat unleavened bread in the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day of the month until the evening of the twenty-first day. 19 Yeast must not be found in your houses for seven days. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreign resident or native of the land, must be cut off from the community of Israel.
Our first clue to timing comes from Luke’s account when he speaks about the day of unfermented cakes and the Passover victim being slaughtered on the same day. That would happen on Nisan and 14th as Exodus 12:6,15 brings out. Also, they were not to slaughter the Passover lamb if there was leaven in their bread as we read in Exodus 34:25.
Exodus 34:25… “Do not present (slaughter) the blood for My sacrifice with anything leavened. The sacrifice of the Passover Festival must not remain until morning.
So, when did Jesus tell his disciples to go get ready the Passover?
In Strong’s concordance the Greek word #G2064 erchomai, is translated to come. It would not be translated as we are in the day but as coming or arrived signifying the event as if it was coming or it was about to happen.
So, on Nisan 13th after 12 pm noontime as the sun started to head back down toward the horizon in the West Jesus told his disciples to go get ready for the Passover because at sunset would start Nisan 14th.
Preparation Day or The Day of Preparation?
Nisan 13th is known as the day of preparation. Many things had to be prepared for the weeklong celebration. We had visitors all over Israel and beyond coming to Jerusalem. Women were in the houses sweeping them clean making sure no yeast could be found in the house. Many things had to be prepared ahead of time.
There was one thing that was not to be prepared until the day it was to be slaughtered. That was the sacrificial animal and the Passover meal. That preparation would occur on Nisan 14th known as Preparation Day as the sun passed to a set point in the sky (noontime) this we can see from reading the following Scriptures. Numbers 9:1-5, Exodus 12:6, Mark 15:42 and Matthew 27:62.
Numbers 9:1-5… The Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai during the first month of the second year that they had left Egypt, 2 “The Israelis are to observe the Passover at its appointed time 3 on the fourteenth day of this month. You are to observe it at this appointed time between the evenings. You are to observe it according to all its decrees and laws.” 4 So Moses instructed the Israelis to observe the Passover. 5 They observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight…
For more detail about the time of twilight and between the evenings see the sub heading Between the Two Evenings.
Our next clue to tell the time of the timeline for Jesus’s death and resurrection comes from the fact of knowing what day the Passover victim would be slaughtered on; as we have said before it was on Nisan 14th as we have shone you at Exodus 12:6.
So, the Sabbath days would be on the 7th, 14th, 21st, and the 28th back to the new moon. So, why was it that everybody was preparing for the eating of the Passover on a Sabbath day of the 14th. The only sanctioned work allowed on a Sabbath was that of preserving of a life or for the circumcision to be performed. Genesis 17:12-14, Leviticus 12:3, and John 7:22-24
Remember what we read at Exodus 12:16 it said, “No work may be done on those days except for preparing what people need to eat—you may do only that”.This was a provision for only Nisan 14th.
Next God called out the 15th as the Sabbath as Leviticus 23:6-8 points out then 7 days of offerings made by fire before having the next holy day convention.
These facts would make the 14th and the 15th a back-to-back sabbath and Holy Day.
Leviticus 23:6-8…“The Lord’s Passover is to begin on the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight (between the evenings). 6 On the fifteenth day of that month is the Festival of Unleavened Bread to the Lord. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread. 7 On the first day that you hold the sacred assembly, you are to do no servile work. 8 Instead, you are to bring an offering made by fire to the Lord daily for seven days. On the seventh day, you are also to hold a sacred assembly during which you are to do no servile work.”
On a personal note, I found the festival of the first month and the festival of the seventh month very similar.
Next look at how the Jewish people back in the time of Jesus day started the beginning of their day at nightfall after the sunsets below the horizon in the west. This observance was done because of what God had done when he created the earth in the first day in darkness, then he created light on the next day. So, first came the evening then came the morning Genesis 1:2-5. Whereas the Gentiles started their day at 12 midnight. This variation of time of six hours can lead to much confusion which the antichrist spirit uses to its advantage.
Next, we have eyewitness accounts found in the Bible that shows a supernatural darkness came upon the land at noon time on Nisan 14ththe day of preparation of the lamb not on preparation day for that week Matthew 27:45-61.
Also, this event was prophesied about at Amos 8:9.
Amos 8:9-10… In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight. I will turn your religious festivals into mourning and all your singing into weeping. I will make all of you wear sackcloth and shave your heads. I will make that time like mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.
This was a huge celestial sign that God provided for the nation of Israel and those who would believe his God words. We all do well to remember that the Jewish calendar and the timing of events along with the celebration of the festivals has to have a focal point, and in this case, it would be in Jerusalem of Israel as Deuteronomy 16:2 points out.
So, what time is it in Israel and more specifically in Jerusalem right now? Well, if you live in the United States of America and live in New York City, Jerusalem’s time then is seven hours ahead of your time. Or if you live in San Francisco, it is 10 hours ahead of your time.
Between The Two Evenings
Exodus 12:6 simply states that on the 14th day between the two evenings you must slaughter the animal. There has been so much debate of what this actually means but we must remember that this is a lunar calendar celebration. Once we understand that concept then it is easy to understand what is meant by this expression between the darkness and the day back to the darkness, this refers to between the two evenings. Look at what God said at Genesis 1:5
Genesis 1:5… God called the light “day,” and He called the darkness “night.” Evening came and then morning: the first day.
So, we have these expressions that we referred to as daylight or morning and darkness is called night or evening. So, the beginning of the first day was called the evening then came the morning. The instructions given calling out “between the two evenings” is the evening of one day to the evening of the next day.
Antichrist Spirit
Though were talking about the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ we would be making a mistake if we did not speak about the resistors of truth.
The antichrist spirit is the deceiver and a liar and the killer of men, it hates the truth and is more active at this time of the year than at other times. But why you may ask?
It all has to do with the Blood of the Covenant that Jesus Christ provided for us. Matthew 26:27-28 and Hebrews 10:29
The celebration of the death along with the resurrection of Jesus Christ as the Lamb of God is the most hated thing by the antichrist spirit. 1 John 2:18,20-23 and 2 John 1:7
If you are a receiver of the spirit of God and an heir to this kingdom, and you are going to declare the death of Christ by the partaking of the Lord’s evening meal then you are a primary target for the spirit of the antichrist, it is our arch enemy. His weapon of choice is confusion, debating and arguments so prepare yourself.
Ephesians 6:11-18… Put on the complete suit of armor from God that YOU may be able to stand firm against the machinations of the Devil; 12 because we have a wrestling, not against blood and flesh, but against the governments, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the wicked spirit forces in the heavenly places. 13 On this account take up the complete suit of armor from God, that YOU may be able to resist in the wicked day and, after YOU have done all things thoroughly, to stand firm. 14 Stand firm, therefore, with YOUR loins girded about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and with YOUR feet shod with the equipment of the good news of peace. 16 Above all things, take up the large shield of faith, with which YOU will be able to quench all the wicked one’s burning missiles. 17 Also, accept the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the spirit, that is, God’s word, while with every form of prayer and supplication YOU carry on prayer on every occasion in spirit. And to that end keep awake with all constancy and with supplication in behalf of all the holy ones…
Let there be death to all those who are behind this rebellion, those who are against the true God the Sovereign of the Universe and the Son of his love Jesus Christ who is now the Lord over Heaven and Earth, so take a knee and read: Philippians 2:9-11.
Nisan 14th – The Day of Unleavened
What happens on this Day of unleavened cakes?
Numbers 9:1-5… And Jehovah proceeded to speak to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai in the second year of their coming out of the land of Egypt, in the first month, saying: 2 “Now the sons of Israel should prepare the Passover sacrifice at its appointed time. 3 On the fourteenth day in this month between the two evenings YOU should prepare it at its appointed time. According to all its statutes and all its regular procedures YOU should prepare it.” 4 So Moses spoke to the sons of Israel to prepare the Passover sacrifice. 5 Then they prepared the Passover sacrifice in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month between the two evenings, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that Jehovah had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did.
2 Chronicles 35:1… Then Josiah held in Jerusalem a Passover to Jehovah, and they slaughtered the Passover victim on the fourteenth day of the first month.
Nisan 14th is the day for Preparation of Passover Meal and the day of unleavened bread. The Passover lamb would need to be killed. Remember the blood had to be put on the doorpost before the setting of the sun. When in Egypt the firstborn sons were not allowed to go out after dark. In the Scriptures it is revealed that God passed over their homes at midnight according to Exodus 11:4-6, and Exodus 12:29.
Nisan 15 – The Sabbath
What happens on Nisan 15th?
The eating of the Passover victim or Paschal feast started as the sun sets and as the evening progresses the focus turns to the celebration of the seven days of eating unleavened bread, this day was also a Sabbath day. The following day would be the 16th at which time the high priest would waive the barley.
So, with these things in our mind let us turn our attention to the timeline found in and according to the Scriptures.
The Scriptural Timeline
The scriptural account says that Jesus died Nisan 14th at 3 PM. That is our starting point of our timeline, now we will work the Scriptures backwards being able to put the daily activities leading up to his death and resurrection. Each set of Scriptures corresponding to each day of the week all the way back to Nisan 10th. We have done this based on the instructions found at Exodus 12:3-6.
Also, the similarities between the first Passover and that what happened to Jesus Christ our Lord had deep spiritual meaning for us today. The instructions are clear, they were to take the Passover victim into their house on Nisan 10th this day and to watch over it and keep it safeguarded till the day of slaughter on Nisan 14th.
So, what were the chain of events that followed?
Let us read the following Scriptures to find out. I will not print out every cited Scripture but only that which has the most detail found in it. I tried to put them in order to read as the events unfolded. Feel free to review the rest of them in comparison to the cited Scripture.
We will start the timeline out from the 10th counting down to the 16th his resurrection.
Your King is Coming!
Nisan 10th
1 Kings 1:32-40
Jesus Christ was to ride in upon a beast of burden just like Solomon did to become king in Jerusalem, the people accepted it, but the religious leaders of the day did not.
Matthew 21:1-17
Mark 11:1-11
Luke 19:29- 48
John 12:12- 19
Luke 19:41-44… And when he got nearby, he viewed the city and wept over it, saying: “If you, even you, had discerned in this day the things having to do with peace—but now they have been hid from your eyes. Because the days will come upon you when your enemies will build around you a fortification with pointed stakes and will encircle you and distress you from every side, and they will dash you and your children within you to the ground, and they will not leave a stone upon a stone in you, because you did not discern the time of your being inspected.”
The Jewish leaders should have publicly identified that the Christ had come to be crowned as King, but they rejected him. They did not even accept him into their house, and they certainly did not watch over him kindly – Exodus 12:3-6. But they did offer him up as a sacrifice on Nisan 14th.
For more information about this day or subject follow the hyperlink to: Your King is Coming.
Who Gave You This Authority?
Daylight Nisan 11th
Matthew 21:18- 23:39
Mark 11:12-20
Luke 20:1- 21:6
The religious leaders of the day were very disturbed by the events that were going on in the temple. There were healings and teachings that exposed the religious leaders in all their hypocrisies.
Mark 11:15-18… When they came to Jerusalem, he went into the Temple and began to throw out those who were selling and those who were buying in the Temple. He overturned the moneychangers’ tables and the chairs of those who sold doves. 16 He wouldn’t even let anyone carry a vessel through the Temple. 17 Then he began to teach them: “It is written, is it not, ‘My house is to be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you’ve turned it into a hideout for bandits!” 18 When the high priests and elders heard this, they began to look for a way to kill him, because they were afraid of him, since the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching
The illustration of the Vineyard and the Cultivators is a prime example that showed that the religious leaders had contempt for Jesus and the Kingdom that would come. Jesus also put them on notice that God intended to come and destroy them and take away what they had been given.
Luke 20:16-20…He will come and destroy these cultivators and will give the vineyard to others.” On hearing [this] they said: “Never may that happen!” But he looked upon them and said: “What, then, does this that is written mean, ‘The stone which the builders rejected, this has become the chief cornerstone’? Everyone falling upon that stone will be shattered. As for anyone upon whom it falls, it will pulverize him.” The scribes and the chief priests now sought to get their hands on him in that very hour, but they feared the people; for they perceived that he spoke this illustration with them in mind. And, after observing him closely, they sent out men secretly hired to pretend that they were righteous, in order that they might catch him in speech, so as to turn him over to the government and to the authority of the governor.
Tell Us When?
Noon Nisan 11th
The disciples of Jesus begin to notice the contentious words being spoken against the religious leaders and even about Jerusalem herself, Jesus was calling out the Woe’s that were coming to Jerusalem.
The disciples of Jesus were very concerned about the coming events. They rightly identified him as being the son of God and that he had a rulership in the Kingdom, but the fleshly nation of Israel was not accepting him, what was to happen next?
Jesus answered his disciples about what would come next and the chain of events that would follow.
Matthew 24:1- 25:46
Mark 11:20-13:37
Luke 21:7- 38
Matthew 23:33-39… Serpents, offspring of vipers, how are YOU to flee from the judgment of Gehenna? For this reason, here I am sending forth to YOU prophets and wise men and public instructors. Some of them YOU will kill and impale, and some of them YOU will scourge in YOUR synagogues and persecute from city to city; that there may come upon YOU all the righteous blood spilled on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom YOU murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. Truly I say to YOU, all these things will come upon this generation. “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the killer of the prophets and stoner of those sent forth to her, —how often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks together under her wings! But YOU people did not want it. Look! YOUR house is abandoned to YOU. For I say to YOU, YOU will by no means see me from henceforth until YOU say, ‘Blessed is he that comes in Jehovah’s name!’”
Seeking to Betray Him?
Nisan 12th
What was Judas Iscariot thinking? Did Judas imagine that bringing the confrontation to ahead would result in a victorious win for Jesus and the Kingdom? Or did Judas Iscariot think that maybe he had chosen the wrong side, was it time for him to switch sides? After all, why not make a little money while doing it?
What Judas Iscariot did was in secret but what this woman did was done in public. Judas acted in selfishness dishonoring Jesus Christ, but this woman acted out of love and honored Jesus publicly and this is going to be her remembrance. But Judas Iscariot will always be viewed in dishonor.
Matthew 26:1-16
Mark 14:1-11
Luke 22:1- 6
Mark 14:1-11… While Jesus was in Bethany sitting at the table in the home of Simon the leper, a woman arrived with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume made from pure nard. She broke open the jar and poured the perfume on his head. 4 Irritated, some who were there asked one another, “Why was the perfume wasted like this? 5 This perfume could have been sold for more than 300 denarii and the money given to the destitute.” So, they got extremely angry with her. 6 But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing for me, 7 because you’ll always have the destitute with you and can help them whenever you want, but you won’t always have me. 8 She has done what she could. She poured perfume on my body in preparation for my burial. 9 I tell all of you with certainty, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told as a memorial to her.” 10 Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the high priests to betray Jesus to them. 11 After they had listened to him, they were delighted and promised to give him money. So, he began to look for a good opportunity to betray him.
Go Prepare!
Nisan 13th – A Day of Preparation
The celebration of the Passover had to occur in Jerusalem according to what God had commanded in Deuteronomy 16:2.
So, it would have been necessary for the disciples of Jesus traveling to Jerusalem to go get provisions for the day of preparation was upon them. They would need to have a room in which they could have an evening meal and food and drink. They would need to thoroughly clean the room in which they were going to have the Passover, no leaven could be present.
This would be a day of preparation because it was necessary for people to get ready the necessities for the coming festival. There was the eating of the Passover meal followed by Sabbath of Nisan 15th followed by six more days of unleavened bread till the 21st. So, as you see there was a lot of work that had to happen in that day.
But the day of preparation was that of Nisan 14th that of making of the unleavened bread and when the lamb would be killed. Numbers 9:1-5, Exodus 12:6,15 and Exodus 34:25.
Matthew 26:17-19
Mark 14:12-16
Luke 22:7- 13
Luke 22:7… The day of the unfermented cakes now arrived, (G2064) on which the Passover [victim] must be sacrificed…
Mark 14:12… Now on the first (G4413) day of unfermented cakes, when they customarily sacrificed the Passover [victim], his disciples said to him: “Where do you want us to go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?
In Strong’s concordance the Greek word #G2064 erchomai, it is translated to come. It would be translated as coming or arrived signifying the event as coming as found in Luke 22:7.
Strong’s concordance Greek word #G4413 protos, can also be rendered most important.
So, in Mark 14:12 that rendering of the word First should really be on the Most Important day of unfermented cakes.
The Lord’s Supper
Sun Set Nisan 14th
Matthew 26:20-75 Jesus discloses that the betrayer was sitting among them at the evening meal.
Mark 14:17-72
Luke 22:14- 71
John 13:1- 18:27 contains the most detailed information of these events and timeline.
1 Corinthians 11:23-26 Paul calls out that the Lord’s Last Supper happened on the night that Christ was handed over to his enemies to be put to death.
For more information about this day or subject follow the hyperlink to: Our Lord’s Supper.
Jesus Stands Before Pilate
Morning of Nisan 14th
Matthew 27:1-44
Mark 15:1-25
Luke 23:1- 43 here Jesus prophesies about the daughters of Jerusalem weeping because the coming of the days of destruction.
John 18:28 – 19:13
For more information about this day or subject follow the hyperlink to: The Conspiracy and Killing of Christ.
The Death of Jesus
Noon Nisan 14th
Matthew 27:45-61
Mark 15:26-47
Luke 23:44 – 56
John 19:14 -42
Sabbath
Sun Set Nisan 15th
Matthew 27:62-66 in the morning of the 15th they made the grave site secure.
He Has Risen from The Dead
Morning of Nisan 16th
Matthew 28:1-20 points out that an earthquake had happened.
Mark 16:1-8
Luke 24:1 -53
John 20:1-25 Thomas calls Jesus Lord and God.
For more information about this day or subject follow the hyperlink to: He Has Risen in God’s Power.
What Should We Now Know?
Mark 14:1… Passover and the festival unfermented cakes run together as a 7-day festival.
John 18:28… Sabbath and eating the Passover meal was at the same time.
Numbers 9:5…The 14th was the day of unfermented cakes and the slaughtering of the Passover victim.
Leviticus chapter 23… The first month feast and the seventh month feast are very close in the dates to observe. New Moon then the 10th followed by the 15th and then 8 days that ends on an assembly day.
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