Jesus' Final Week: Day Five--Jesus Died on a Thursday Not a Friday!

[@GG17250]

I feel so blessed to be able to learn from you on youtube!

[@KirillBenIgor]

Dr Tabor's content is always good but this is great!

[@robertvann7349]

Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers say passover the meal is to be eaten on the 14 of Nissan not the 15th. Preparation must be on 13th. Are you going to believe a false teacher changing the 14th to 15th, or me who will not deviate and change the Bible to the 15. Read the verses, the Bible says this doesn't dude will change days.

[@robertvann7349]

If Jesus didn't eat the passover on the 14th the Apostles would not follow him and Jesus would have broken the law and a sinner.

[@robertvann7349]

Ok, 3 days and nights? Nothing short of 24 hours would not be complete, 1 nanosecond before or 12 hours before would not be day and night. If Jesus rose after 24 hours he would have to rise on the 2nd day before the first day was complete, right? If Jesus rose after 3 day and night, he would have to rise on the 4th day for the 3rd day to be complete. Sorry your so gullible.

[@MyChihuahua]

@@robertvann7349 The 14th of Abib is called the 'day of preparation' or 'preparation day' as it is the day when all must be prepared for the Passover memorial meal that evening/night and also for the high Sabbath of the 15th the next day.

[@mariodesilva8193]

Thank you very much James for the extremely vital and important clarification❤

[@dennisblass]

Thank you for clearing up issues I've had with the Easter Celebration.

[@greatdeceptionsoftheendtim9497]

Easter? Passover not Easter

[@machlove73]

I believe he would have been crucified on a Wednesday. It was a high sabbath due to feast of unleavened bread and Dead Sea scroll calendar. Also, what makes me think that is if God‘s day started in the evening, Wednesday evening to Thursday evening would be day one, Thursday evening to Friday evening would be day two, Friday evening to Saturday evening would’ve been day three and he would’ve Rose Saturday evening. so he could have been seen on Sunday

[@serapheum]

A Wed crucifixion is impossible. The eyewitnesses on the road to Emmaus prove that impossible. Sunday was the 3rd day since the crucifixion. Sunday day 3, sabbath day 2 and Friday was the day it all happened by Biblical inclusive counting.

[@RomanPaganChurch]

​@@serapheum the professor is doing a slight of hand. First of all the Passover is calculated by the new moon which means it would have to be observed and is highly inaccurate. So there's no real way to know where the day actually landed by using our modern calculations.

[@colorado353]

That's correct it was Wednesday

[@machlove73]

@@RomanPaganChurch that’s incorrect. It was the same every year. The year didn’t start by the moons. That’s the Jewish calendar. The essene calendar started the next Wednesday or the Wednesday closest to the spring equinox per the day genesis when moon and sun were created on day 4

[@RomanPaganChurch]

@machlove73 I'm Messianic Jewish, you're missing serious fundamentals. The monthly cycle is based on the Council of Sanhedrin, through observation of a new moon so the actual day from the new moon can shift. The Hebrew calendar became permanent much later after the Romans forced the issue.

[@pamelamarek2309]

Thank You 🪔Agree with you 100%

[@Cb489]

Great job as always

[@Gutslinger]

I'd like to see this be discussed among more people/church leaders.

[@richardbarton6146]

Thank you, God Bless you. I have always known this, but you really cleared it up.

[@decay-154]

The passover also fell on a Friday in 33AD . The 3 hours of darkness happened in 33AD according to non christian writer Phlegon . He said an eclipse happened in the 202nd Olympiad ( 33 ad ) . The star of Bethlehem video by mr Larkins also points to 33AD

[@McadMcad]

Christ you know I love you

[@bjh3661]

Christ always reads the comments on youtube.

[@user-lb1pn3kb5i]

Jesus prophecied he would be 3 days and 3 nights in the tomb. Crucified on Wednesday. Laid in tomb that evening (begins Thursday). Resurrected Saturday evening after sunset. (Begins Sunday)

[@Gutslinger]

Why do you think the resurrection was on our Saturday evening after sunset, and not on our Sunday before sunrise?. If I recall John correctly, I think it says it was not yet light when Mary went to the tomb. Our Sunday obviously starts at midnight, and there's several hours of darkness before the sun comes up. Scripture makes it sound like it was some time before the sun came up. Thus making the Saturday evening to Sunday morning the 3rd night.

[@demtron]

That is 3 days as in Friday, Saturday and Sunday and not 72 hours. (Although Friday and Sunday were not full days he was still in the tomb on those days!)

[@carenseagraves5683]

Thank you, it makes so much more sense now.

[@GG17250]

Scott Hahn and The Fourth Cup is worth listening to regarding the last supper as well.

[@brindageorge701]

Yes!

[@jfk_123]

I am so glad that I have been following you ever since I watched Simcha’s KZbin channels years ago . Thank you for sharing all your knowledge, your expeditions, your excavations videos and all other amazing stuff here in YTube ..

[@andreasboe4509]

Very well put, James. Because it is so concise and clear I can use it to open the eyes of my friends.

[@aaronaragon7838]

Brilliant! I learned a lot...btw, I bought two of your courses Dr Tabor.

[@maryannec55]

But what about the '3 days and 3 nights' in the tomb? I've figured (by what I've studied over the years, but I am no scholar like you) that Wed.night, Thurs.night, Fri.night =3 nights and Thurs.day, Fri.day and Sat.day=3 days. And then he wasn't in the tomb VERY EARLY Sun. morning, meaning that the tomb was empty after the weekly Sabbath was over?

[@Exposed777]

I totally agree with you. I think he is a day off.

[@bungeebones]

I totally agree with you too. I don't believe the Last Supper was the Passover meal. Thursday was Passover. So it wouldn't be allowed to dress His body during those three Sabbaths which explains why the women waited three days. I've heard anyone explain why the women waited three days.

[@maryannec55]

@@bungeebones so... if that is correct, Thurs. was Passover, Fri. was Unleavened Bread and Sat. was weekly Sabbath. And then add in John 19.39, 70 pounds of spices from Nicodemus, no need for the Mary's to bring more?!

[@dirtypickle77]

JC wasn't in the ground 3 days and nights. There is no prophecy in the Hebrew scriptures that say that anyway, the sign of jonah? Thats not a thing. Actually, the messiah is going to have a long life and watch his seed grow. And he will enter the 3rd temple and make an unintentional sin offering on behalf of himself and the nation because he is a man, not a God.

[@serapheum]

A Wed crucifixion is impossible. The eyewitnesses on the road to Emmaus prove that impossible. Sunday was the 3rd day since the crucifixion. Sunday day 3, sabbath day 2 and Friday was the day it all happened by Biblical inclusive counting.

[@andumenged]

I always was skeptical about John’s account due to his “lamb of God” theology background and thought his account may be more of theology than history but your presentation of the special or double sabbath really challenges everything and forces me to look it again. I think the double sabbath argument is very strong and hard to bypass easily. I would go to your blog to understand it better. Many thanks 🙏

[@kbchaffin53]

It took me a while to realize since he believes Jesus was arrested on Wednesday night, this is the last installment. Dead and buried on Thursday and Sunday is the first day of the following week.

[@ezekielsaltar4728]

I always was tempted to choose Thursday, but doing research on the Passover "Sabbath" convinced me that there are not two Sabbaths in a row, the restrictions on Passover are not the same as the Sabbath.

[@retepelyod]

How long was Jonah in the belly of the fish? (The Sign of Jonah) A: 1 day and 2 nights (Traditional) B: 2 Days and 2 nights (James Tabor View) C: 3 Days and 3 Nights (Jesus Sign) Houston, we have a problem!

[@Y_al_muahid]

So if Cristians take tabors version that mean they affirm that the biblical prophecy failed for them

[@eonxl]

I thought the Synoptic Gospels and John have Jesus crucified on Friday but on different years (the Synoptics on Passover Day and John on the Day of Preparation). I'm pretty sure Ehrman says this in his book "Jesus Interrupted."

[@davidsicking7514]

Another source noted that the year was a Jubilee Year. Those years have a day inserted an extra Sabbath day. I am not sure if any writing under the Julian Calendar is properly accounted for.

[@retepelyod]

Hey James, which day did the body of Jesus get removed from the tomb? Remembering that the woman were making their way to the tomb before the Sabbath had ended.

[@SonOfHutch]

The scriptures clearly state that Mary entered the tomb on the morning of the first day, and the tomb was empty. Obviously, he rose on the sabbath, but people somehow read it differently, through tradition of man which we were warned against. BEWARE lest any men spoil you through philosophy, deceit, traditions of men and rudiments of this world and not after Christ

[@demtron]

John 20: 1 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been moved away from the tomb. 2 Therefore, she ran to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him.” 3 Then Peter and the other disciple set out and made their way toward the tomb. 4 They both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 He bent down and saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in. 6 When Simon Peter caught up with him, he entered the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying there, 7 and also the cloth that had covered his head not lying with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place. 8 Then the other disciple who had reached the tomb first also went inside, and he saw and believed. 9 They still did not understand the Scripture indicating that he must rise from the dead. 10 Then the disciples returned to their homes. 11 Mary Magdalene Recognizes Jesus.[c] Mary Magdalene remained weeping outside the tomb. And as she wept, she bent down to look into the tomb, 12 and she saw two angels in white sitting there where the body of Jesus had been, one at the head and the other at the feet. 13 They asked her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She answered, “They have taken my Lord away, and I do not know where they have put him.” 14 As she said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus. 15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?” Thinking he was the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have removed him, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him away.” 16 Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni!”[d] (which means “Teacher”). 17 Jesus then said to her, “Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to my Father. But go to my brethren and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”[e] 18 Mary Magdalene then went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord,” and repeated what he had said to her.

[@liepa7768]

Indeed, according to the gosspels and revelation, Jesus died on Thursday or even Wednesday. But what's the big difference in days?? I don't het it why does it matter so much for so many?

[@maistoru]

In orthodox Romania we call it The Big Friday

[@Exposed777]

I believe he was crucified on a Wednesday. That would make 3 days and 3 nights. The tomb was empty on Sunday morning because he resurrected during the evening.

[@EvilXtianity]

_"The tomb was empty on Sunday morning because he resurrected during the evening."_ LOL

[@PeterFranklinFoxfireRealEstate]

I agree. To fulfill the prophesy, he had to have died on Wednesday. Three days and three nights.

[@serapheum]

@@PeterFranklinFoxfireRealEstateA Wed crucifixion is impossible. The eyewitnesses on the road to Emmaus prove that impossible. Sunday was the 3rd day since the crucifixion. Sunday day 3, sabbath day 2 and Friday was the day it all happened by Biblical inclusive counting.

[@Exposed777]

@@serapheum nope, 3 days and 3 nights, count them.

[@EvilXtianity]

@@PeterFranklinFoxfireRealEstate _"To fulfill the prophesy..."_ Paul created the Jesus fiction in 48 AD after the Daniel 9:25 prophesy expired unfulfilled. The Gospels were created decades later by anonymous authors who never witnessed Jesus to match Jewish expatiations of the messiah.

[@Steve-u9k4p]

So from previous video, on Wednesday the annointing at Bethany happens first, then last supper later that evening, followed by arrest in the garden into the morning when he was crucified on Thursday?

[@Skriften]

Jesus died on the 14th day (9th hour) of the first biblical month. He was laid to rest in the burial chamber after beeing prepared at the end of the 14th (not so long after he died at the 9th hour), but before the high-sabbath 15th aviv started in full. He, the dead body, was in the tomb 3 nights and 3 days. From the end of the 14th to the end of the 15th is first day in the tomb. End of the 15th to the end of the 16th, second day in the tomb. And end of the 16th to the end of the 17th, the third day in the tomb. He was raised from the tomb several hours before the witnesses came to the tomb. So he was probably raised from the dead right at the end of the 17th which is the beginning of the 18th. The 18th beeing a sabbat. Several hours later, in the morning and still sabbat, the witnesses came to the tomb. Well along on the sabbat, when it was almost over Jesus appeared to the disciples inside the house with the doors locked. And before that he also appeared alongside those who were walking to Emmaus, also on the same sabbat. We do not read that anyone of the involved was working this day so I guess its very logical that it was a sabbat. "Mia ton sabbaton" - The word "μια" means "one" (and not first = πρωτη = prote , Mk 16:9), "των" means "the" and "σαββατων" means "sabbath" (singular) or "sabbaths" (plural). So the translation into any language should be very simple : "[on] one of the Sabbaths " or "[on] one of the Sabbath days " or "[on] a Sabbath". Greek manuscripts have the word sabbath about when Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Jacob and Salome came to the tomb; „μια των σαββατων“ means "one of the Sabbaths" and can never mean "first day of the week". At least, in short, this is how I understand it.

[@deniceetterholehan7653]

Thank you Dr Tabor. I am listening to this on Shabbat and just by chance found a presentation on the History Channel, “Banned from the Bible”. I started paying close attention to one of the presenters, John Dominic Crossan, and wound up “going down a rabbit trail”, leading me to look at 3 of his books that then pointed me right back to you and this Study! LOVE when my Sabbath study comes full circle! ❤

[@haydeecornfeld6438]

If it was indeed the temporary tomb that was found empty because the body was taken to a permanent tomb, it changes everything we’ve been told. Assuming Jesus resurrected from the temporary tomb If the permanent tomb in fact belonged to Joseph of Arimathea who knew in Jesus’s inner circle he had been moved to the permanent tomb and if so did they think Jesus had been resurrected anyway?

[@michaelsmith9453]

Can anyone tell me how you get "3 Days AND 3 Nights" from this model? It seems to come up short. However, if Yeshua was "cut off in the midst of the week" (i.e. Wednesday) and the resurrection occured "late on the Sabbath as it began to DUSK toward the first day of the week..." (Mt.28:1,2), then you would have exactly 3days and 3nights like He said.

[@serapheum]

He also said "on the 3rd day". So Friday is day 1, Sabbath day 2 and Sunday (first day of the week) is day 3.

[@michaelsmith9453]

@@serapheum those would have to be partial days. Yeshua said 3 days AND 3 nights for a total of 72hrs.

[@serapheum]

@@michaelsmith9453any part of a day is considered a full day in Judaism.

[@michaelsmith9453]

@@serapheum I do understand that. Thanks. But when Yeshua specifically says 3 days AND 3 nights, I think he is trying to make a point!

[@serapheum]

@@michaelsmith9453in Judaism part of a day can be considered as the whole.

[@biaberg3448]

There are only 2 days from Thursday to Sunday morning/ night. Jesus said he would be 3 days and 3 nights in the grave, so he must have been crucified on a Wednesday. Thursday was a “holy” day this week, they called all the holy days sabbath, the Friday was an ordinary day, and the women bought ingredients and made the “cream” to put on Jesu body on the Friday. And they went to the grave early Sunday morning to do this. This makes everything concerning the days fit.

[@demtron]

That is 3 days as in Friday, Saturday and Sunday and not 72 hours. (Although Friday and Sunday were not full days he was still in the tomb on those days!) If he was crucified on a Wednesday it would be 5 days (Wednesday, Thrusday Friday, Saturday, Sunday)

[@biaberg3448]

@@demtron The Jews started the day at 6 in the morning. Jesus rose in the night or at dawn , probably before 6 o’clock. So you can’t count Sunday. Even if he rose at 7 o’clock. God doesn’t cheat by counting 1 hour as a whole day. A day is 12 hours and a night is 12 hours.

[@byrd-is-the-word]

This clears up a little thing that has bothered me for years .. if crucified on a Friday .. the three days and three nights reference would cause the Resurrection to be Easter Monday .. simple math .. but if on a Thursday .. then you would have Easter Sunday .. Wela'lin [thank you] .. (:))

[@rampartranger7749]

So the YEAR of the death and resurrection should be calculable according to “in what year(s) did the 15th of Nisan fall on a Thursday?”

[@thhseeking]

I've never thought much about Jesus' last days, but seeing your videos over the past week, I've had the thought that the "resurrection" narrative might have come from a misunderstanding of what Jesus was buried in from the cross. I'd always thought that he went straight from the cross to Joseph of Arimathea's tomb. Learning about the "temporary tomb" changes my perception. Oral transmission of the "empty tomb" becomes Jesus being resurrected from it, rather than just being moved.

[@MyChihuahua]

So, the recorded account of the angel having moved the stone and telling the women that 'He is not here, He is risen' is what then??

[@thhseeking]

@@MyChihuahuaInvention. Different gospels have different numbers of women. There may have been a man standing there and told Mary that the (temporary) tomb was empty. Both old & new testaments have bits that are inventions.

[@MyChihuahua]

@@thhseeking Different viewpoints.

[@CKennethBauer]

Dose anyone know his methodology for not including the women buying spices at the market in Mark 16. seems like an extra day in there somewhere like in between the two sabbath days? And then we have this whole eclipse issue too. Didn’t know if he commented on that either. Thank you.

[@Gutslinger]

"Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they killed the Passover lamb, His disciples said to Him, 'Where do You want us to go and prepare, that You may eat the Passover?" - Mark 14:12 "Wherever he goes in, say to the master, of the house, 'The Teacher says, 'Where is the guest room in which I may eat the Passover with My disciples?' - Mark 14:14 🤔

[@ChangingTimes-vd2mx]

This is the timeline, I've concluded for a number of years now, so I agree with Tabor's schedule of Jesus's last days here. What doesn't make any sense is his unfounded belief that "Joseph of Arimathea reburied the body of Jesus" without telling a soul, when he was clearly a sympathiser, if not a follower of Jesus, to have offered Jesus his own tomb! Neither does it explain his apparently bizarre activity of going out in the middle of the night during a holy feast he was celebrating with his family, to go into a tomb, make himself ceremonially unclean by handling a dead body, reburying the body in another tomb and hurrying back to his family long before morning? Neither does Tabor explain how a tomb guarded and sealed by Romans would give him access to the tomb, let alone remove the body?? Neither does it explain why he would remove a naked body and leave the grave clothes in the tomb! Having done all of this handling of a dead body, Joseph would have made himself legally defiled according to Jewish law, during the feast of unleavened bread, making him ceremonially unclean for 7 days. None of that makes any logical or cultural sense as an explanation!

[@pamcatello9136]

I read bishop book I recommend it to all

[@retepelyod]

Which day was Jesus Resurrected? A: Sunday (Traditional) B: There was no Resurrection (James Tabor) C: Saturday Sabbath after 3pm Who would leave their Lamb stuck in a pit on a Sabbath? Who is the Lord of the Sabbath?

[@jperez7893]

That is incorrect. Jesus died after the trumpet of the second tamid sacrifice at 3 pm on 14 nisan 33 ad. This can be verified by the blood moon that coincided on that same day on april 3 33 ad. It was a Friday. The quartodecimans have also held on to the ancient eyewitness account of the apostle john.

[@MyChihuahua]

John's gospel always refers to what the corrupt Temple priesthood observed as feasts 'of the JEWS'. It was a total solar eclipse, not a blood moon. Blood moons happen on full moons, solar eclipses happen at conjunction dark moon, 15 days after the full moon which marks the new month. It would have been a Wed in 31AD.

[@heatherharrison6438]

I noticed your day ends up different than the Wednesday-Friday timeline. Have you ever discussed those differences with the likes of Ken Johnson and compared notes between your studies & research as to why you both wound up with two different start dates?

[@laidback1.0.1.2]

According to scripture Jesus died after Passover Right the passover is the 14th day at evening meaning the start of the 15th 24hr day, the 5th day of the week So it's like this At evening means the end of the day watch this Lev 23:27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation.... Lev 23:32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even.... Now when we read Lev 23:5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD’S passover. We understand this is the end of the 14th day

[@Rosiedelaroux]

Yes. That’s right it was a Thursday because of half day closing.

[@haydeecornfeld6438]

I’m still thinking about the length of how many days did Jesus stayed there? And when was he moved if at all to the permanent tomb?

[@charliesmith3777]

Dear James, this is all too wonderful that you are discussing this. I want to thank you. I hope you don't mind presenting a different explanation I wish for you to consider without contradicting scripture. 1. First. I date the death of Jesus in 33 CE. 2. Luke 22:7 is quite clear that Jesus sent out two disciples on the morning of the day the lambs were customarily killed. Okay? The lambs were customarily killed at 3 pm on Nisan 14th. So, Peter likely took the lamb to the temple ànd Jesus joined them that evening for the Traditional Passover Seder. So this IS the passover meal. It is now Friday night. 2. The Passover meal ends at midnight and Jesus gets arrested Saturday early morning. He is taken to the Sanhedrine at sunrise. Then he is taken to Pilate "but-early"(John 18:28). This is a reference to the watch of the day. The term "but-early" means just before the early watch. There were three evening watches: early evening, mid evening and late evening. But in everyday use they are simply referred to as "early", "evening", and "late". So Jesus first appeared before Pilate just before noon. 3. Realize that the term "PASSOVER" was now a reference to the entire festival! Luke 22:1 says: "Now the festival of the unfermented cakes, the so-called Passover, was getting near." So whenever you see Passover, you have to consider it in terms of any event during that entire week. So there were two official Passover meals on the first day of unleavened bread, the Seder ànd the festival meal at the temple the next day on the 15th. So the Jews were talking about the Passover meal at the temple that afternoon when they said they wanted to eat Passover. The Seder meal had already been eaten the night before. 4. After hearing testimony about Jesus, since a political prisoner would be released on Wednesday in honor of the festival, Pilate sent Jesus to see Herod. Herod heard testimony on Jesus for the next three days and returned Jesus to Pilate Wednesday morning. Herod and Pulate became friends that morning. 5. John 19:14 says "it was BUT-PREPARATION for Passover; the hour was the sixth". This specifically was understood to mean that it was the afternoon before preparation for the passover high sabbath of the 21st. There were two high sabbaths of Passover, the 15th and the 21st. Thus there were two days of preparation for those Passover week high sabbaths on the 14th and the 20rh. The trial was the afternoon before preparation and so John can only be speaking of the 13th or the 19th. Jesus wasn't arrested until the 15th, so there is no other choice. Today was Wednesday, the 19th. 6. Jesus was nailed to the stake that night at 9 p.m. Think about it. Pilate wasn't going to get up at 8:30 am to have someone executed by 9 am!! The trial wasn't until Noon!! Simon, the man who helped Jesus was coming from the field, indicating it was just after sundown. It became preparation at nightfall. 7. The next day at noon it got dark until 3 pm when Jesus died. It was now Thursday, Nisan 20th. Jesus was in the grave three nights: Thursday night, Friday night and Saturday night. The above scenario is consistent with all the scriptures. Of note, "erev passover" is either Nisan 14th or Nisan 20th. Jesus ate the traditional Passover so this was preparation for the second Passover sabbath. SPECIAL NOTE: There were three women named Mary Magdalene who came to the tomb. All of them likely blood relatives of Jesus. Thank you again for your blog and these discussions! Have a very blessed day.

[@nancycorbin7317]

Dr.tabor , You are truly a gift to the body of Messiah. However, maybe because we all get stuck in one avenue and there are so many facets of Biblical study. Nevertheless, check out Ken Johnson, Nehemiah Gordon, and Micheal Rood... They love calendars and time ! Supposedly NASA and the Israeli New Moon society have looked back in star dates for this .... Wednesday day 4 was The High Sabbath at Sunset (which makes it a Sabbath day) Sunset to sunset Day 5 is ( 1 ) Then to day 6 (2) Then to 7 ( 3 ) So by their calculations... He rose Saturday before sunset ... Sign of Jonah.

[@clstrat837]

Great analysis as always. Thank you

[@zyxmyk]

is this the last one of these?

[@TribulationIsNear]

People that argue dates from 2000 years ago are not listening to truth.

[@SpiritMatter-qo3jj]

If I have this right.....According to the U.S. Navel Observatory(?), the summer/spring equinox occurred in 30 C.E.on WednesdayEveningThursdayDay at 03:40. The new moon occurred on WednesdayEveningThursdayDay, a few hours earlier, at 19:55. This made WednesdayEveningThursdayDay, the first day of both the month and the year. As Leviticus says, the 14th at evening is the Passover (TuesdayEveningWednesdayDay/not a Sabbath) and the 15th at evening (WednesdayEveningThursdayDay) is the first day of unleavened bread when they went out of Egypt and is an annual Sabbath. Three days/nights later, Yeshua was raised on Saturday the 21st just before sunset.

[@stevecunningham2759]

Thanks for this series!

[@iguanapoolservice1461]

Didn’t Jesus die during Passover/first fruits? Passover is on April this year.

[@arober2]

No

[@iguanapoolservice1461]

@@arober2 15 of Nissan is not this weekend

[@yodidya]

according to mark he was crucified on passover day. jews only have 352 days in a year, its always off track

[@iguanapoolservice1461]

@yodidyahuhanachman1681 the jews still celebrate passover whether is off and the gregorian calendar is the correct one 15 of Nissan will still be in April this year

[@MyChihuahua]

​@@iguanapoolservice1461Actually, Passover of 14 Abib is May 7th this year.

[@cathyallen3967]

According to John, the last supper was six days before passover. Using the Essene lunar calendar and the Jewish lunisolar calendar of kings and covenants, this would have been the spring equinox. Count forward, and you get the day he died.

[@fcastellanos57]

Can we account for 3 days and 3 night if Jesus died on a Thursday? From Thursday at 6 pm to Friday 6pm, one day and one night, from Friday 6pm to Saturday 6pm, 2 days and 2 night, and from Saturday 6pm to Sunday 6 am, is not quite 3 days, it is only 2 and 1/2 day, at lest is closer to the 3 days and 3 nights as said by Jesus.

[@ralphhays3545]

Actually - looking at scripture, sunday morning Jesus was already gone when the women went to the empty tomb. Scripture does say Jesus was in the grave for 3 days and 3 nights. So if we back up 3 days and 3 nights from pre-dawn sunday morning - logically speaking Jesus died late wednesday afternoon. That week just happens to have had two sabbaths - the usual weekly sabbath plus a "high" sabbath which fell on a thursday.

[@serapheum]

A Wed crucifixion is impossible. The eyewitnesses on the road to Emmaus prove that impossible. Sunday was the 3rd day since the crucifixion. Sunday day 3, sabbath day 2 and Friday was the day it all happened by Biblical inclusive counting.

[@crimson90]

​@@serapheumYour mom's an eyewitness.

[@serapheum]

@@crimson90that's what a 2nd grader would say. It's OK to be mad when someone proves you wrong...

[@colorado353]

@Ralph that is correct

[@ralphhays3545]

I guess when you can't debate it intelligently you mock. @@crimson90

[@serapheum]

A high day within this context was when the 15th occurs on Shabbat. He died on the 14th.

[@MyChihuahua]

A 'high Sabbath' is a 'proclaimed' Sabbath for a special feast observance, not the weekly Sabbath. Lev 23. The total solar eclipse confirms He died on the day of the dark moon, which is the 15th day from the full moon that marks the new month.

[@serapheum]

@@MyChihuahuathe 15th is the 1st day of unleavened. The lambs were killed on the 14th. You are wrong.

[@MyChihuahua]

@@serapheum You are right and so am I. He kept Passover on the 14th and died on the 15th. The Jews were on the wrong calendar and day reckoning.

[@serapheum]

@@MyChihuahuano He died when the lambs were being killed on the 14th. The 15th was 1st of unleavened and also Shabbat.

[@serapheum]

@@MyChihuahuaI bet you are a sacred namer and a lunar sabbatarian. Am I right?

[@dalelouis4652]

One problem may be that Jesus celebrated the Passover correctly on right day and the Judeans were not.

[@MyChihuahua]

Yes! That is why John's gospel always refers to them as a 'feast of the JEWS'.

[@SanJuanCreole]

Dr. Tabor, thanks for taking the time to break down the topic of Jesus's death

[@leonardo41477]

This assumes that Jesus died in 30 CE. But there is little evidence for this. As little as the assumption that he died in 33 CE. The correct answer to the question "in what year did Jesus die?" is "we don't know." It follows that we don't know the day of the week he died.

[@quakers200]

So when do we get to the part about chocolate eggs and the easter bunny? I have seen painting of an actual lamb carrying a cross. Something else i remeber that Jesus died before they would have broken his legs and that is because the Passover lamb is not t ave any bren bones, seven years of bad luck of something. Bathed in the blood of the lamb. Wased in the blood of the lamb. Kindof like thse colored easter egggs that are bathed in the red of the little pill. True story my big brother when he was little drank some of that dye and my sister was sure he was going to die from the dye. When we went on the easer egg hunt every year some egg would go missing until the smell n that bt in the clst would give it away. And they say we dont remember wat easter is all abut.

[@bibitu26]

Thank you for the great content you bring us.

[@scottdwyer646]

Nice research, I heard Chuck Missler give similar Theory before he died, he tied it into the Essenes

[@Tracysbrokenwing]

Thaaankkk youuuuuu Dr. Tabor!!!!! 🤗❤️🤗

[@osr4152]

It's clear that Mark and John disagree about whether Jesus died before or after the passover, but I think they both have him die on a Friday. In John the Sabbath is a high sabbath which includes the passover.

[@MyChihuahua]

Messiah and the disciples kept the correct calendar and day reckoning, observing the true Passover on the 14th. John's account always refers to the feasts 'of the Jews' because the corrupted Temple priesthood, and therefore the community at large, was keeping the calendar incorrectly.

[@sciptick]

The gospel authors treat the earthly Jesus as wholesale fiction, probably believing in Paul's Jesus killed in the Firmament by "archons", or sky-demons. Their walking-around Jesus was meant as a parable for the noobs, to be disabused after initiation. (Paul and his peers believed in a "firmament" in the sky and seven more heavens above it, with rebellious angels cast down to the firmament.) Sadly, the inner secrets were lost and all we have is the outsiders' story.

[@dalelouis4652]

There are eight consecutive days to Passover therefore Jesus was crucified, buried and rose again on His schedule not according to theirs.

[@MyChihuahua]

The terms 'Passover' and 'the feast of Unleavened bread' have come to be used interchangeably and, along with day reckoning and calendar errors, causes much confusion. 'Preparation day' and the memorial meal of Passover is the 14th of Abib (morning to morning). The 7-day feast of Unleavened bread begins with a 'high Sabbath' on the morning of the 15th. Exodus 12; Lev 23.

[@RomanPaganChurch]

The Assumption on 30 CE is kind of ridiculous because you as a Hebrew convert obviously know that the new month is calculated by observing the new moon... therefore, there's no way to know exactly what year passover actually fell on a Friday.

[@yodidya]

the last supper is what jews call the seder meal today...the seder meal is always on the evening of the 15th. Passover evening last supper, passover day crucifixion. there was evening and there was morning, יום חמישי = משיח בן דוד

[@FakeMoonRocks]

Maundy Wednesday? Who ever heard of such a thing!? Actually, it is I, as I did not know what Maundy Thursday was, yesterday.

[@uncleambient]

So it should be Good Thursday then? Being raised as a Catholic I never understood why it was called Good Friday, as there was nothing good about it.

[@dannylo5875]

Thursday followed because Jesus died when Sabbath was happening in Friday sundown.

[@dalelouis4652]

I don't think so, where is the 3 days and 3 nights in the tomb?

[@alexmorgan2296]

Most interesting, as ever. Had no idea that the crucial days were different from orthodox teaching. Thank you again for sharing.

[@bauhnguefyische667]

It gets technical fast.

[@amyswaybarton7944]

This does not take a rocket scientist

[@clivemckeef]

Excellent analysis

[@trajensynica7188]

2.4k views in 4 hours. Hell of a use of teaching hours Tabor.

[@farmergiles1065]

He died on the day before the Sabbath, which is Saturday. That makes the day of his death Friday. Both Romans and Jews observed the day's end (and new beginning) at sunset, not at midnight. No one in the world knew how to tell it was the exact middle of the night at that time. They couldn't even tell with surety within two hours. There were no mechanical time-keepers that could do the job; clocks are a thing of the last four centuries or so. And sundials don't work at night. So, Saturday began at sunset after His death, which was at the ninth hour (in the language of the time). The ninth hour after sunrise in our parlance, or 3 P.M. And you may remember that those who buried Him had to put a rush on to place Him in the tomb before the Sabbath began, or else they would be considered unclean for Passover. There's no way Thursday enters the picture. It doesn't fit.

[@Exodus26.13Pi]

⭕ God told Moses on Mt. Sinai to use Pi 3.14 π as the cornerstone to build the Wilderness Tabernacle in 1440 BC. In 94 AD Josephus the historian wrongly described it as rectangular-shaped. Exodus 25-26-27 blueprints build a circular-shaped outer courtyard. What is superior, the bible or non-canonical established ecuametal history? 330 Exodus 26:8 eleven curtains each 30 cubits long 15 Exodus 26:12 one curtain is folded in half to 15 cubits long - 1 Exodus 26:13 curtain hang over/seams add to 1 cubit long = 314 3.14 = 314 circumference/100 diameter ≈ π ratio (100 cubit court per Exodus 27:9-18) ................. Is this like the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls or even Martin Luther's 95 Theses? How did we miss this for 1900 years and does it even matter anymore? .................. History of finding π: -(1900-1680 BC) Babylonian 3.125 for π -(1650 BC) Egyptians gave the approximate value of π 3.1605 -(1440 BC) Moses recorded Pi in the Exodus blueprints 3.141592653... Exodus 26:13 ≈ Pi -(500 BC) India's Aryabhata approximation was 62,832/20,000, or 3.141 -(429-501 BC) Zu Chongzhi a Chinese mathematician 3.1415926 - 3.1415927 -(250 BC) Archimedes from Syracuse showed between 3.1408 and 3.1429 ................. More than a thousand years removed Josephus did NOT know Exodus 26:13 approximated Pi. He was describing the Temple's structure and NOT, and NOT the Tabernacle from Exodus 25-26-27. See? Pi is coded in your DNA. Consider King Josiah & the Prophetess Huldah rediscovering the forgotten scriptures, right? Will Pharaoh let this go? כְּכֹ֗ל אֲשֶׁ֤ר אֲנִי֙ ⭕ Almost 3500 years ago "Exodus 26:13 ≈ Pi" was lost on Mt. Nebo when Moses died. Will the religious and non-religious be thankful for this correction?

[@ProudJew348]

They hurried to get Jesus off the cross and buried because Shabbat (which is Saturday) was coming at sunset. Jesus DEFINITELY died on the cross on Friday. No discussion.

[@colorado353]

Wed. Night sundown to Thursday sundown is day 1..Thursday night sundown to Friday night sundown is day 2.. Friday night sundown to Saturday night sundown is day 3, resurrecting before sunrise Sunday morning. Your wrong, sorry to have to tell you that. Yeshua ate the Seder meal at sundown Wednesday night on the eve of Passover, which was Wed. Night sundown until Thursday night sundown. On the Shroud of Turin they found the numbers 333. He died on April 3rd, 33AD.

[@travissk5036]

Great Content. Thankyou!

[@ChristianCarrizales]

I respect the hard work that James put into this, but I disagree. Don’t the Synoptics say that it was the Feast of Matzah when they ate, which means Jesus should have already been dead? See Mark 14.12-16 and Matthew 26.17-19. I thought John knew that and intentionally tried to fix it to work with his own Passover Lamb theology.

[@simonturner6943]

Probably doesnt matter since time of passover is tied to the full moon, which can be extrapolated back very accurately, but I always wonder whether the dating of the years back is affected by the changes to the calendar, Julian, Gregorian etc. Doesn't the orthodox church have a totally different date for Easter, and correct me if I'm wrong but didn't they stick with the Gregorian calendar for a lot longer?? Also noted comment below about lunar or solar calendar.

[@MyChihuahua]

Passover (the 14th) is at the dark moon. Luke 22:53 and 23:44. Total solar eclipses only happen when the conjunction/dark moon rises and sets with the sun, which is always the 15th day from the full moon, which marks the chodesh/'renewal' to begin a new month.

[@Debbiegeer]

Jesus was crucified on Wednesday not Thursday. 0:34

[@blain20_]

Thu day, night, Fri day, night, Sat day, night = 3 days and 3 nights

[@gordmarsden]

Garner Ted Armstrong used to say this 40 years ago

[@randallwittman2720]

Garner Ted Armstrong said 40 years ago....jehovahs witnesses said over 100 years ago. (Wink) 😊😊

[@MyChihuahua]

And they're all wrong!

[@thebearsden1701]

The real misunderstanding is that the entity called Jesus didn't die on a cross..myth !!

[@georgehart8179]

It is more appropriate to say that Jesus died Wed pm about 3 pm. (About the time Passover lambs are being slaughtered and roasted for family Passover meals (Seder).) Whereas, for us Gentiles, our days, technically, go from midnight to midnight. However, for the Jews, their days go from sundown to sundown. (Study Genesis 1: See how the days are designated to be a period of darkness (starting at evening) followed by a period of light (starting at sunrise).) So at sundown on Wed, it becomes Thurs. In particular, this Thurs is Passover Day/first day of Unleaved bread. (The Wed that just past was the Passover Preparation Day.) The arrangement of days for this week> Wed>Passover Preparation Day Thurs>Passover Fri>Preparation day for weekly sabbath/catching up after Passover/preparing for weekly sabbath/along with normal daily routines Sat>weekly sabbath First day of the new week>empty tomb This arrangement of holidays and preparation days makes it essentially impossible for the women to be able to properly prepare Jesus's body for burial until these 3 days/nights have passed.

[@MMG-q1v]

The last week of Jesus’s life? So you don’t believe in the resurrection?

[@ChangingTimes-vd2mx]

The other thing that Tabor's explanation here is that it results in implications that are simply untenable! It doesn't explain why Christian faith began in the post crucifixion among Jews, at all, if Jesus's appearance was not seen after he died, but was still lying in a reburial. If that was the case, then the crucifixion itself was MORE than enough to completely obliterate any sense of further belief and continuation of following of Jesus. To be humiliated and crucified as a criminal in this way, without any further events involved, would have brought the following of and belief in Jesus, to a stark, rude and abrupt halt. There would be no further interest beyond the cross of humiliation! This is particularly because the followers had thought of Jesus as their Messiah, but for Jews, The Messiah does not end up on a cross, but on a throne. For this reason alone, Tabor's story of 'the reburied Jesus' defies the logic of any following of Jesus thereafter. Yet we read from Tacitus that following Jesus's crucifixion, the following rose up again! Why? It so happens that Tacitus's report of this, appears to inadvertently line up with the Resurrection appearances and subsequent following of Jesus again. So I don't think Tabor's theory adds up because for quite a number of reasons it hits too many problems and creates its own problems!

[@haydeecornfeld6438]

Excellent point. If Jesus didn’t die at all, would sins still need to be redeemed? And why and by whom?

[@Gutslinger]

...what?

[@theomnisthour6400]

I'm not dead! I'm not! I'm getting better! I feel fine! I feel happy. I feel happy. [whop] 😉😇

[@mynorgonzalez2625]

I think we as Christians shouldn’t just read it from the theological view and use all these materials that are very useful. Many of us didn't know all these jews traditions and read it as a Christian event.

[@mjt532]

Why do some scholars date the crucifixion in 33?

[@MyChihuahua]

Because they are forcing it to be on a Friday and that is a year they claim Passover fell on a Friday. All of which is incorrect.

[@back2thescriptures]

Jesus was crucified on Thursday but the jews day began at dawn not evening...

[@quakers200]

Can't wait to hear how it turns out i hear there is a surprise ending. I bet there will be a puppy in it. That would be great. Maybe jesus will wake up and find it was all just a dream .

[@constpegasus]

Truly incredible people don't know the truth.

[@eddiegeijn9965]

Its traditions that pushed the truth to the side, just like Jesus said.

[@dirtypickle77]

You want some truth? Put down the kjv and study the Hebrew scriptures in Hebrew.

[@eddiegeijn9965]

@@dirtypickle77 Even read some of the gospels in hebrew. Why should a Jew write greek to his own people as Eusebius of Ceasarea already wrote.

[@dirtypickle77]

@@eddiegeijn9965 gospels in Hebrew? You mean Greek.

[@MyChihuahua]

​@@dirtypickle77The New Testament has been recently discovered to have been written in Hebrew. Many translations currently being published.