The Chronology of Jesus (Yeshua) Crucifixion & ResurrectionEducational Reference Serieshttp://www.centuryone.com/crucifixion.html |
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| The key to understanding the chronology of the events leading up to and including Yeshua /Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection is that there were two Sabbaths in that week, with a day of preparation between them. (Not a Friday thru Sunday) This makes all of the Gospels accounts fall into place. The fulfillment of Yeshua /Christ’s words become clear. A correct harmonization of all the facts will bear this out.
From The Companion Bible published by Kregel Publications (1922) The difficulties connected with these three have arisen (1) from not having noted these fixed points; (2) from the fact of Gentiles’ not having been conversant with the law concerning the three great feasts of the LORD; and (3) from not having reckoned the days as commencing (some six hours before our own) and running from sunset to sunset, instead of from midnight to midnight. To remove these difficulties, we must note: 1. That the first day of each of the three feasts, Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, was “a holy convocation”, a “sabbath” on which no servile work was to be done. See Lev. 23:7, 24, 35. Cp. Ex. 12:16. 2. “That Sabbath” and the “high day” of John 19:31, was the “holy convocation”, the first day of the feast, which quite overshadowed the ordinary weekly sabbath. 3. It was called by the Jews Yom tov ( = Good day), and this is the greeting on that day throughout Jewry down to the present time. This great sabbath, having been mistaken from the earliest times for the weekly sabbath, has led to all the confusion |
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| THE EVENTS | Time Between AD 30 & 36 | HOW WE KNOW |
| TUESDAY – Nisan 13 . March 26, 2021
Jesus and the twelve disciples come into Jerusalem from Bethany, to partake of the Passover meal. |
Night One | John and Peter were sent ahead of time to locate the place of the meal and to make preparations for it. (Mark 14.12-16). |
| Jesus ate an early-evening Passover meal with His disciples. After the meal, He walks with His disciples towards the Mount of Olives.
Jesus was betrayed by Judas at the olive grove in Gethsemane, arrested and brought before the high priest, Caiaphas. Trial ends at daybreak. |
Passover is observed on the 14th of Nisan every year (Leviticus 23.5). Jesus and His disciples partook of the Passover in the early evening of the previous day. (Days are calculated from sunset-to-sunset, not midnight-to-midnight.)
Gethsemane is at the foot of the Mount of Olives, not far from the brook Kidron, and takes its name from a cave there that contained an oil press — thus, Gat-Shmanim. |
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| WEDNESDAY – Nisan 14 | ||
| March 27, 2021
Preparation Day for the Passover, not weekly, Sabbath. In the morning, Jesus was brought before Pilate the governor. Jesus was crucified and dies around 3PM. Jesus’ body was placed in the tomb at twilight |
Matthew 27:2 Luke 23:44 shows that Jesus died around the ninth hour or approximately 3PM. He would have been buried before sunset because of the approaching Sabbath, for that Sabbath day was a high-day (John 19:31).
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| Annual Sabbath begins at sunset. Sunset at this time of year in Jerusalem, is about 6:30 to 7:00 PM. | John 19.31 mentions that the day following Jesus’ crucifixion was a high day as opposed to the weekly seventh-day Sabbath. TWO Sabbaths – first an annual Holy Day and then the regular weekly Sabbath – are mentioned in the Gospel accounts. Compare Mark 16:1 with Luke 23.56 | |
| THURSDAY – Nisan 15 | ||
| March 28, 2021
This was the first annual Sabbath or high-day – the first day of Unleavened Bread. Tomb is guarded and secured by sealing it with a stone. |
Day One | The 15th of Nisan is the first Holy Day, high-day, or annual Sabbath of the 7-day festival of Unleavened Bread. It begins at sunset on the 14th. |
| The annual Sabbath ends at sunset | Night Two | |
| FRIDAY – Nisan 16 March 29, 2021 | ||
| With the annual Sabbath now over, the women purchased and prepared spices for anointing Yeshua /Jesus’ body. | Day Two | Mark 16:1 tells us, “And when the Sabbath was past, Mary from the town of Magdala and Mary (the mother of James and Salome), bought sweet spices that they might come and anoint Him.” Luke’s account also describes how the women “prepared the spices and ointments” and then they “rested on the Sabbath day according to the commandment.” (Luke 23:56) Thus, according to these two accounts, they bought the spices and prepared them after the Sabbath and yet before the Sabbath. There had to be two Sabbaths involved here with a day of preparation between them. |
| The weekly Sabbath begins at sunset Friday night. No work is to be done as commanded in the fourth commandment. | Night Three | |
| SATURDAY – Nisan 17 | ||
| March 30, 2021
The weekly Sabbath. The women rested on the weekly Sabbath. Jesus rose around sunset, exactly three days and three nights (72 hours) after burial, to fulfill the sign of Jonah and authenticate Jesus’ messiahship. |
Day Three | Jesus’ promise was fulfilled exactly as he said it would. He said that, like the prophet Jonah, He would be entombed three days and three nights and that then He would be raised up from the dead the third day after His crucifixion and death (Matthew 12:39-40; 17:23; 20:19). |
| SUNDAY – Nisan 18 | ||
| March 31, 2021
The women brought the prepared spices early in the morning while it was still dark. When they arrived they found that Jesus had already RISEN. |
Jesus’ resurrection had already taken place by the time Mary Magdalene arrived at dawn Sunday morning. (John 20:1-2) In Matthew’s account he states that “In the end of [or after] the Sabbath(s), as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week” they came to see the sepulcher (Mt. 28:1) The original Greek word used here for Sabbath is actually plural and should be translated “Sabbaths.” | |
| This excerpt is from a 14-page document filled with details from scriptures. It is worth the times it takes to review and study it. (http://www.centuryone.com/crucifixion.html). | ||
