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Date: 10 Aug 2006 23:12:15
From: Chandler Muriel Bing
Subject: When Was Jesus Crucified by Jews?
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Easter - When Was Jesus Crucified by Jews?
When purchasing a house or acreage one always takes the precaution of
having it surveyed to insure against the unpleasant surprise of finding
that half your new home has been built on your neighbor's property, or
the dam is not on your land. To prove the accuracy of the map or plan
of your purchase, the surveyor will first locate a government "trig"
station or absolute, then fix one corner of your property from this
constant as his datum post. And from this known fixed point he will
accurately measure and confirm all the other boundaries of the site.
Ancient masons who built the great cathedrals first established the
precise location of one point. Here they laid the cornerstone from
which the whole structure was measured. In a recent teaching we learned
that Christ is the head of the corner or capstone, from which the
temple of the living God or Church is measured.
Tonight we're going to revisit the last supper and crucifixion and
drive in a few datum posts, or establish some constants, measured from
the Absolute or "trig" station of God's Word to make sure the story we
are believing is the mind of God, and not Roman Catholic traditions
from our denominational past.
Scripture has provided us with a series of FIXED days and FIXED dates
we can plot on the calendar to determine the events which occupied the
last week of our Lord's life on earth, and establish the precise day of
His crucifixion.
Throughout this lesson I ask you to bear in mind that the Hebrews
reckoned their day from sunset to sunset instead of from midnight. We
will set forth Jesus' activities as they might have happened in the
week before Calvary. I am not teaching this as drine and I may have
some details out of order. This will help us to organize our thinking
and paint an ordered picture in our own mind.
After the resurrection of Lazarus was reported, the chief priests and
Pharisees became concerned at the many following and believing on Jesus
because of His Supernatural vindication. They feared for their exalted
station over Israel, and their status with the Roman rulers. Caiaphas
interposed with the solution: "It's expedient for the hierarchy, that
one man should die for the people, to preserve the (religious status
quo) of our nation" (John 11:47-57).
To these Hebrews, any utterance of the high priest was regarded as
inspired. Caiaphas had announced a conspiracy to have Jesus put to
death by Rome; God used his tongue to prophesy. Thereafter Jesus hid
himself from the Jews who were ordered to report any sightings of Him.
The Passover was approaching. This year Jesus was to be that Lamb (John
1:29-34), so He began making His way back towards Bethany which lies on
the side of the Mount of Olives, eastward from Jerusalem. He had to be
there by Nisan 10 as the Law required the lamb should be separated from
the flock on that day (Exodus 12:3-6). It was to be kept in the home
for the next four days to be examined for and protected from any
blemishes.
Jesus was separated and taken into the home of his friends, Mary,
Martha and Lazarus. From here He was presented to the people and their
denominational religious leaders for examination, but even Pilate
declared, "I find no fault in Him".
Nisan 7, our Thursday sunset to Friday sunset
Jesus spent our Thursday night (Nisan 7) near Jericho, at the home of
Zacchaeus the businessman (Luke 19:1-10). On Friday morning He preached
the "parable of the pounds" and set off towards Jerusalem (Luke
19:11-28). Bypassing Bethany, they came to Bethphage, where He sent His
disciples to fetch an ass and a colt (Matthew 21:1-7).
Jesus is followed by a multitude from the village rejoicing at the
fulfillment of Zechariah 9:9, "Rejoice greatly O daughter of Zion;
shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, your King comes to you: He is
just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a
colt the foal of an ass".
Down in Jerusalem, however, nobody was expecting this Kinsman that
Zechariah said would come in peace to be a ransom for their souls.
Jesus entered the Temple courts where money changers were selling the
Temple half shekel as they did at each Passover season. Every adult
male must pay the annual ransom that furnished the continual burnt
offerings and Temple necessaries.
Jesus was that continual burnt offering. In righteous indignation He
cast out the money changers who were making unjust profit, and
overturned their tables. This was a full day's work and Jesus was
exhausted when He arrived at the home of Mary, Martha and Lazarus in
Bethany on Friday night our time (Matthew 21, 8-17; John 12:1).
Nisan 8, our Friday sunset to Saturday sunset
John 12:1 takes us to Nisan 8. From Friday sunset until Saturday sunset
our time. "SIX days before Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, to the home
of Lazarus whom He had raised from the dead".
Jesus spent the sabbath of Nisan 8 in the home of Lazarus and his
sisters.
Nisan 9, our Saturday sunset to Sunday sunset
After sunset and the close of the sabbath "They made Him a supper;
Martha served: but Lazarus sat at the table with Jesus and their
guests" (John 12:2). This is the first of three banquets and two
anointings (three in the Gospels, the first in Capernaum - Luke 7:
36-50) in the four days before the crucifixion. Lazarus' sister, Mary
anointed Jesus' feet in token of His burial (John 12:3-11).
The priests have become pretty testy by this time. They know where
Jesus is, and people are going to Bethany not only to see Him, but the
resurrected Lazarus who is the vindication of Jesus' ministry. They're
plotting to kill both Jesus and Lazarus, because many are believing on
Jesus through the testimony of Lazarus who is said to have had an
important ministry, working in Britain and in France, founding the
Church in Britain.
Now Jesus is about to give the nicolaitane priesthood of His day some
curry. Great crowds had assembled in Jerusalem from all over the world,
to observe the feasts of Passover and Unleavened Bread. These required
a compulsory annual pilgrimage from all adult male Israelites. Jesus
sends two disciples to fetch a colt. This time He will ride from
Bethany (not from Bethphage) into Jerusalem, and in judgment, to
proclaim the doom of the city and of the nation.
John 12:12-19, "On the next day (Sunday, Nisan 9, our time), when they
heard the news that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem (unlike his entry on
the previous day which was unexpected), many pilgrims who had come to
the feast took palm branches, and went to meet Him, crying, 'Hosanna:
Blessed is the King of Israel that comes in the Name of the Lord'.
(In His first entry two animals were sent for and used. This time John
quotes only so much of the prophecy). Jesus rode upon a young ass and
it is written, 'Fear not, daughter of Sion: see, your King comes,
sitting on an ass's colt'. (The remaining Words will not be declared
'til the 144,000 recognize His "parousia" after the midst of Daniel's
Seventieth Week - Matthew 23:39). His disciples didn't understand at
the time: but after He was glorified, they realized that all these
prophecies had been fulfilled before their eyes".
(This was Christ's triumphal "Palm Sunday" entry into Jerusalem). Those
who had seen Him call Lazarus from the dead, had testified. And that's
why so many people gathered to meet Him. The Pharisees said among
themselves, 'They take no notice of our condemnation - the world has
gone after Him'!"
Luke 19:41-44, "When Jesus saw Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives He
wept over it saying, 'If only you had recognized the revelation for
your day that brings eternal rest from all of the distress you suffer
through sin! now It's hid from your eyes. Soon your enemies shall cast
a trench about you and shut you in on every side, crush you and your
children within - leaving not one stone upon another, because you
rejected your day and its Message."
In Jerusalem, Jesus entered into the Temple where He surveyed the
courts He had cleansed the previous day. Being late, He returned home
to Bethany with the twelve (Mark 11:11).
Nisan 10, our Sunday sunset to Monday sunset
It's Nisan 10, Monday morning, our time. Walking to Jerusalem and
feeling hungry, Jesus went to pick some figs. Although it was not yet
summer, the tree was in leaf, and early figs often appear with the
leaves. The fig tree symbolizes Israel.
Finding no fruit, Jesus cursed the tree, saying, "You will bear no
fruit until the end of the Gentile dispensation". The absence of
individual fruit showed that God deals with Israel as a nation, in one
day, at end of summer. Jesus cursed Israel to fulfill Isaiah's prophecy
that they should be blind until the Gentile dispensation was fulfilled
(Mark 11:12-14). Whereas Israel was to have been a "Light unto the
Gentiles", hereafter, "No man will eat fruit of it for ever". Israel
had failed to fulfill its commission.
Mark 11:15-17, "Once in Jerusalem, He went into the temple for a
further cleansing, and began to cast out those who sold and bought in
the temple. He overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the
seats of those who sold doves; and forbade anyone to carry any profane
vessel through the temple. And He taught, 'It is written, My house
shall be called a house of prayer for all nations? you've made it a den
of thieves'."
Some Greeks who had came to worship in the Court of the Gentiles
approached Philip, (perhaps because his name was Greek, or because they
too were from Galilee), and asked, 'Sir, we would see Jesus'.
Philip told Andrew and together they told Jesus who answered, "(If the
Gentiles are beginning to recognize Me already), it's time for the Son
of man to be glorified". And He expounded the necessity of His death
and Israel's blindness, trying to persuade them that by believing on
Him - they were not believing on Him as a man, but on God Who sent Him
and was in Him (John 12:20-50).
He taught daily in the temple. The chief priests, scribes and the
business community sought to destroy Him, but didn't know how, for the
people held to His every Word (Luke 19:47-48). Before going to Bethany
that night, He stopped by the Mount of Olives (Mark 11:19) as became
his custom (Luke 21:37-38).
Nisan 11, our Monday sunset to Tuesday sunset
Going to Jerusalem on Tuesday morning (our time), Nisan 11, "they
noticed the fig tree Jesus had cursed was withered from the roots.
(That was the miracle as a tree normally withers from its leaves).
Remembering what Jesus had said on Monday, Peter exclaimed, 'Lord, see
the fig tree you cursed? It's withered away'.
Jesus replied, '(That symbolizes what will become of Israel. But) have
faith in God (for He is able also to restore it to life)'.
Jesus proceeded to illustrate the certainty of energized faith in God's
Word. 'Truly I tell you, if you have faith, you can command this Mount
of Olives: "Rise up and fall into the Mediterranean", and it shall come
to pass.
All things are possible, only believe. Whatever you desire, when you
pray, believe that you receive it, and you shall have it. And when you
persevere in prayer, first forgive those against whom you bear any
ill-will: so that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you
your shortcomings. But if you do not forgive others, neither will God
forgive you your trespasses'" (Mark 11:20-25).
In the Temple, when the religious leaders sought to trap Jesus in His
Words, He began teaching in parables and confounding them with
questions (Matthew 21:23-23:39). And while He taught in the Temple
(Luke 20:1; 21:1,37), He saw the rich men casting their gifts into the
treasury, and the widow her two mites. And as some admired the
beautiful decorations of the Temple, Jesus delivered the prophetic
equivalent of the Seven Seals of Revelation (Luke 21:5-36).
Nisan 12, our Tuesday sunset to Wednesday sunset
Jesus again visited the Temple. Retiring to the Mount of Olives He
repeated in greater detail, the prophecies delivered in the Temple the
previous day (Mark 13; Luke 21; here recorded in Matthew 24:1- 25:46).
"And when He had finished all His teaching, Jesus said to His
disciples, 'As you know, the feast of Passover is in TWO DAYS, (a FIXED
date, confirming our calculations correct so-far) and the Son of man
will be betrayed and crucified'.
At that very moment the chief priests and elders of the people had
gathered in the court of the palace of Caiaphas, the high priest, to
discuss how they might take Jesus by subtilty and kill Him. But 'Not
during the feast lest there be a riot among the people'." (Matthew
26:1-5).
Jesus and His friends returned to Bethany for a meal in the house of
Simon "the (healed) leper". Jesus receives His second anointing of
precious ointment by an unnamed woman, who pours it on His head whilst
He's eating. (The first anointing was on His feet "SIX DAYS before the
Passover" in the house of Lazarus). Perhaps taking up Judas' complaint
at the first anointing the disciples here express their indignation at
the waste (Matthew 26:6-13; Mark 14:1-9).
Nisan 13, our Wednesday sunset to Thursday sunset
"Then Satan entered into Judas Iscariot, and he conspired with the
chief priests and religious leaders, offering a solution to their
problem. It is late Thursday afternoon and the feast of Unleavened
Bread, called the Passover, was drawing near. They sought how they
might take Jesus secretly to avoid a public trial, then kill Him, for
they feared the people.
They were glad and agreed to pay Judas, who began to seek a chance to
betray Jesus to them in the absence of any crowd (Luke 22:1-6).
Jesus sent Peter and John to find a place to eat the Passover meal the
following night. Tomorrow, Friday, was the preparation day for the
Passover when the sacrifice must be slain.
'Where do you want us to go?' they asked Jesus.
(Jesus must have seen a vision for) He replied, 'As soon as you've
entered Jerusalem, you'll see a chap carrying a pitcher of water.
Follow him into the house he enters, and say to the householder, "The
Master says you are to show us to the guest room where He can eat the
Passover with His disciples?" He'll show you upstairs to a large room
strewn with cushions, and divans suitable for a Greco- Roman style
banquet. Prepare the meal there'.
And they went and found everything as Jesus had said: and prepared the
Passover supper" (Luke 22:7-13).
Nisan 14, Thursday sunset our time to Friday sunset
Now we'll consider the last supper.
"When it was evening (after sunset on our Thursday, which is early
Friday to the Hebrews), Jesus sat down with the twelve disciples"
(Matthew 26:20). The fact that Jesus "sat down" shows this was not the
Passover meal which must always eaten "standing".
Mark 14:22-25 shows no signs of a Passover. Everything typical of a
Passover is missing: the Pascal lamb, stewed fruit, bitter herbs and
Passover haggadah (or discourse). And the symbolic breaking of bread
and blessing of the cup were AFTER the meal, following which "they sang
a hymn and departed for the Mount of Olives".
Paul says nothing of the last supper having been a Passover night,
merely that Jesus "took bread". It's quite evident that Jesus died
before the Passover meal for He does not "eat" the Passover, He is the
Passover. This is a special "farewell" meal or "last" supper.
Exodus 12:11, "Thus shall you eat it; with your loins girded, your
shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it
in haste: it is the LORD'S Passover".
Israel were ready to march out the door and into the Wilderness at a
moment's notice, not knowing where Moses might take them. That's faith.
Now read along with me as I paraphrase John 13:1-20.
"Before the feast of the Passover (that is, the preparation day or
Nisan 14, our Thursday sunset to Friday sunset), Jesus was aware that
His time had come when He should pass from this cosmos to the Father,
having loved His Own who were in the world, He loved them unto the end
of His life. (As proven by His readiness to descend to the humblest
death in their behalf)".
(In John 7, we read how Jesus went up to the feast of Tabernacles
secretly, because the Jews wanted to kill Him. In verses 6 and 30, He
said, "My time is not yet". So we see that His life was in His Own
hands and His death was accomplished by Himself. Until that precise
time came, He was immune from death. And, I believe, so is Christ's
Bride. Now we're going to witness Jesus lay down His life voluntarily,
knowing that He has been betrayed).
When supper was ready, and the devil had suggested to Judas, that this
was the night to betray Jesus. Jesus, knowing that the Father had given
all things to His inheritance, and that He had come from God and would
return to God, left the table - after they had taken their places. And
laying aside His robe, He wrapped a towel about His loins as the
lowliest of slaves would dress, and Pouring water into a bason He began
to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the loin cloth He had
about Him.
When He came to Simon Peter, Peter said to Him, 'Lord, is it right for
You to wash my feet?'
Jesus replied, 'You don't understand now why I'm doing it; but you will
know some day'.
Peter protested, 'You shall never wash my feet'.
'But if I don't, you have no part with Me'.
Simon Peter exclaimed, 'Then wash not only my feet, but also my hands
and my head'.
Jesus replied, 'He that has bathed all over needs only to have his feet
washed to be entirely clean (or free from impurity). But He spoke this
Word only of the eleven, and not of Judas, into whose heart Satan had
planted an impure thought. So He said, "Not all of you are clean". For
He knew who had betrayed Him',
After washing their feet, He put His robe back on, and everyone
returned to their places around the table. Then He asked, 'Do you
understand what I was doing? You call me Teacher and Lord: and you say
well; for that's what I am. Therefore if I then, your Lord and Teacher
have washed your feet; you should wash one another's feet. For I have
given you an example to emulate: do as I have done to you. Truly, a
servant is not greater than his master; neither is the messenger
greater than the one who sends him. You know these things. Obey them
and you'll be blessed.
I'm not saying this to all of you: I know whom I have chosen: but that
the Scripture may be fulfilled, "He that eats My bread will betray me".
(Judas was to partake of that first Lord's Supper, the bread of which
symbolized the manifested Word of the Lord's body broken for him on
Calvary). I tell you now, before it happens, so when it comes to pass,
you may believe on Me. (Jesus is already submitting to what He knows to
be the will of the Father, in voluntarily laying down His life). Truly,
I say, whoever receives My messenger receives Me; and he that receives
Me receives Him that sent Me'."
(The last supper was taken in the Greco-Roman style of "reclining at
table", and as I said, it is quite opposite to the way in which the
Jews ate the Passover. The account of this supper is intended to be a
missionary document to which the Gentiles could relate.
I'd like you to form a picture of this supper in your imagination. As
was the custom, there were probably no women present. Jesus was the
host in control of His Own destiny and the meal. In a matter of days He
will be glorified, but for the present He condescends to humble Himself
to the work of the lowest slave, in washing even the feet of His enemy.
The large room may have been in the home of John, Jesus' closest
friend, as he's described as reclining at Jesus' right hand at the head
of the table; Judas (the most trusted disciple and treasurer) is also
at the head of the table, seated on Jesus' left, and less-favored side.
The other disciples and any guests, reclined around the table, with
Peter probably somewhere to the left of Judas. The guests rested upon
their left elbow, with their feet sloping away from the table, towards
the back of the couch.
Picture this in your mind as we follow the dialogue in John 13:21- 30).
"Having spoken of His betrayer, Jesus was in great anguish, and
exclaimed, 'Truly, one of you shall betray Me'.
Then the disciples looked one toward another, wondering whom He could
mean. 'As John reclined on his divan at Jesus' right hand, with his
head towards His bosom, Peter caught his eye, and leaning back,
SIGNALED to him behind the Lord, "You ask Jesus which one of us will do
this terrible deed".
'I leaned back with my head on Jesus' chest and whispered, "Lord, who
is it"?'
Jesus whispered, 'It's the one I'll honor by giving this morsel of
bread dipped in sauce'. (It's common practice in the east to honor a
guest be selecting them a choice morsel with your chopsticks, or in
other cultures, your fingers.
Jesus had already indicated that, although He had seated Judas to His
left, he was by His side and at the head of the table, thus an honored
guest. Jesus had appealed to the conscience of Judas, when without
naming names, He foretold that one of those present would betray Him.
Now Jesus appeals to Judas' heart by honoring him with the sop).
When Jesus had dipped the sop, He gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of
Simon.
And a short time after Judas had eaten it, Satan entered into him.
(Like Pharaoh and Esau who were offered grace, but came to a time of no
more repentance, the rejection of this last appeal hardened Judas'
heart so that he became possessed of the Devil, whereas up to this
point, he was possessed only by the evil thought).
Knowing the spiritual transaction that had taken place, and that
further appeal was useless, Jesus dismisses Judas, saying, 'Hurry and
do what you must'.
None of the others knew what Jesus meant. Some thought that since Judas
was their treasurer, that Jesus had told him to buy what was needed for
the feast the following night at the close of Passover, when the high
day, Nisan 15, began; or, that he should give to the poor.
Judas, having received the sop, left immediately: and it was about (the
third hour of the night), 9:00pm Thursday. (Keep your eyes on this
Jewish time).
(It has been interesting for me to discover several things in this
study of which I was ignorant. Firstly, I had used the King James'
translation of words and arranged the sequence of events according to
the rhema or letter. I imagined Jesus washed the feet of His disciples
AFTER He gave us the Lord's Supper. But He washed their feet BEFORE the
meal. Secondly, and by the same cause, I thought Judas had DEPARTED
before our Lord commanded foot washing, because the King James'
translation of John 13:2 says, "And supper being ENDED..." Once again I
was mistaken, for the correct translation is, "supper being SERVED",
"supper was READY, or "DURING supper".
Jesus did wash the feet of His enemy. Truly He humbled Himself to a
voluntary death. He prayed for those Jews and Roman soldiers who
crucified Him, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do".
And He commanded us, "When you stand praying, or persevere in prayer" -
as Paul says, when you're clad in the full armor of God and have done
all you know you can do, stand on that Word, or persevere, and "forgive
those you feel have wronged you: that your Father also which is in
heaven may forgive you your trespasses".
That's a lesson itself. And one I feel the Lord's been impressing upon
me).
Now Jesus is going to seal the contract of the New Covenant spoken of
in Jeremiah 31:31 by drinking the cup. And He'll pay the Bride price or
"mohar" in His Own blood on Calvary (Israelite Marriage bb950526.htm).
Let's turn to Matthew 26:26-29 and read about how Jesus instituted the
memorial we know as the Lord's Supper.
"As they were eating, Jesus took a piece of hard unleavened bread which
required to be broken, and blessed it and broke it, and gave it to the
disciples, saying, 'Take, eat; this represents My body'.
(Of course it was not His body, it was wheat flour and water which
represented His body that was that corn of wheat that must fall to the
ground and die, in order that it could reproduce His Life in a
many-membered Body called His Church.
Now we learn two things here. Firstly, we see we're to observe the
Lord's Supper in the evening, not in the morning. It's the Lord's
Supper, not His breakfast, or His lunch. Secondly, the bread isn't
"light bread", it's unleavened bread made of wheat sifted fine, so
every piece is "the same", like Jesus Christ. It to be made by the holy
hands of a Christian, mixed with water, rolled thin, and cut square,
never round like bread baked for Astarte, the Babylonian queen of
heaven. Then it's baked in an oven, or over a hot pan).
And He took the cup of wine, and gave thanks, and gave it to them,
saying, 'Each of you drink of it; for this is My blood sealing the New
Covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Mark My Words, I will not drink this wine again, until the day I drink
it in a higher sense with you in My Father's kingdom'." (The
stimulation of revelation to a born-again believer is the drinking
Jesus is speaking about. The baptism with the Holy Ghost which is the
new birth that seats us with Jesus, in heavenly places "in His Father's
Kingdom". On the day of Pentecost, Peter turned the faith key that
unlocked the Kingdom, and all men everywhere are pressing into It -
Matthew 16:19; Luke 16:16; 17:21).
Now communion wine is not grape juice. It is fermented wine made by
holy hands, or feet. Grape juice sours whilst wine has a spirit that
preserves it and causes it to improve with age. A type of the Holy
Spirit.
You will notice the antitype of Calvary and the Lord's Supper was the
Passover in Egypt. Only those under the blood of the lamb and prepared
for the journey were allowed to partake of the Passover. Likewise, only
those under the Blood of Christ or truly born-again and who are
sanctified and ready for the rapture, are permitted to partake of the
Lord's Supper we call Communion.
Judas took of the first Lord's Supper with iniquity in his heart and
was accursed. Paul warned, "Whosoever eats this bread, and drinks this
cup of the Lord unworthily, will be guilty of the body and blood of the
Lord. That's why a man should examine himself beforehand (and if he
needs to ask forgiveness, he should first make things right with those
he's wronged. Or if he feels someone has wronged him, he should go to
that person and inform him before taking Communion). Because if he eats
and drinks unworthily, not discerning the Lord's Body (which is the
individual members of the Church) he eats and drinks his own damnation.
(Like Judas).
Such careless and unworthy participation is the reason so many of your
number are spiritually weak and sickly; some are spiritually dead. For
if we would examine our own lives we would recognize and correct our
shortcomings, so we should not be judged. But when we fall short and
are judged by the Word, we are corrected by the Lord, that we may not
be condemned with the world. Therefore when you gather together for the
Lord's Supper, wait upon those who are making things right" (I
Corinthians 11:27-33).
During the last supper Jesus prophesied Peter's denials, and told them
of the necessity of His separation, the Holy Spirit's Coming, the true
evidence of the new birth, and the commandment to follow the example of
His life and propagate the faith. Jesus then prayed and they departed
for Gethsemane (John 14:1-17:26).
In the garden Jesus prayed further, beseeching the Father if there be
some other way to atone for Adam and his fallen race. There in His
agony, He overcame the frailties of flesh and mortal spirit. Then Judas
arrived with a mob of thugs organized by the religious leaders to
arrest Jesus. The eleven disciples fled. Jesus was led to Caiaphas'
palace where He was interrogated throughout the night until the early
hours of the day of preparation for the Passover - Friday morning our
time (John 18:28; Matthew 27:2; Mark 15:1).
The Jewish leaders were desperate to be rid of Jesus, but the Law
forbad them to try a prisoner at night (Talmud, Sanhedrin, cap.4). So,
"They led Jesus from Caiaphas to Pilate's hall of judgment: it was
early (in the day of preparation, between 11:00pm and midnight Thursday
our time but already the sixth day, Friday, Hebrew time). They didn't
personally enter the judgment hall in case they became defiled and
unable to eat the Passover (John 18:28).
Here's a FIXED time: morning is any time before sunrise when it is yet
dark. The Sanhedrin found Jesus guilty of blasphemy and before sunrise
they delivered Him to Governor Pilate, to pronounce the death penalty.
There the entire Council began at once accusing Jesus, 'This Man's been
telling our nation not to pay taxes to the Roman government, claiming
He is our Messiah and King'!
Pilate found no fault in Jesus, and learning He was of Galilee and
therefore under Herod's jurisdiction, he sent Him to Herod who was in
Jerusalem at that time. When Jesus declined to amuse Herod with a
miraculous demonstration, he had his troops dress Jesus in royal purple
and then sent Him back to Pilate for a joke.
Knowing Jesus' innocence, "Pilate sought to release Him: but the Jews
cried, 'If you let this man go, you're not Caesar's friend: whoever
makes himself a king speaks against Caesar'.
When Pilate heard these words he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in
the judgment seat. It was the preparation day of the Passover, and
already about the sixth hour (after midnight, or about 6:00 in the
morning of Nisan 14, according to Roman reckoning - John was writing
according Roman reckoning (John 1:39) we use today - and the trial was
still in progress. Another FIXED time).
With irony Pilate said to the Jews, 'Behold your King'!
But they cried out, 'Away with Him! Away with Him! Crucify Him!'
Pilate said sarcastically, 'Shall I crucify your King?' The chief
priests answered, 'We have no king but Caesar'.
Then Pilate gave Jesus to them to be crucified" (Matthew 26:30- 27:2;
Luke 22:54-23:25; John 19:12-16).
The purple robe was taken, and Jesus wore only His own clothes to
Calvary, but before he was crucified, these were stripped from Him and
sold in a sweep while He looked down naked from the cross about three
hours after Pilate delivered Him to be crucified (John 19:15-18).
Mark 15:25 says, "It was about the third hour (of the day), 9:00am when
they crucified Him". The time of the Jew's morning sacrifice.
The synoptic gospels declare that "from about the sixth hour there was
darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour" or from noon until
3:00pm in our time when Jesus died. This could not have been an eclipse
because it was the middle of the month when the moon is full. The
darkness signified God had rejected the regular evening sacrifice.
Light returned once the true and accepted sacrifice was fulfilled
(Matthew 27:45-50; Mark 15:33-37; Luke 23:44-46).
Time was drawing-on. (Less than three hours remained to 6:00pm and the
High Day or holy convocation of Nisan 15, and the first day of
Unleavened Bread. As their days were not actually regulated by the
clock but, like the months and religious festivals, by observation of
the sun and harvest, daytime may have been several hours longer at this
time of year). John 19:31, "The Jews therefore, because it was the
preparation of the Passover, so that the bodies should not remain upon
the cross on the sabbath day, for that sabbath day was a high day,
asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, (causing almost instant
suffocation), so that they might be taken away".
The Jew's first concern after the crucifixion was obeying the letter of
the Law. Jesus had to be buried in haste for Jewish Law commands: "If a
man committed a sin worthy of death, and is hanged on a tree: His body
shall not remain all night upon the tree, but you shall bury him that
day" (Deuteronomy 21:22-23).
The Jewish day begins at sunset, the Passover meal will be served on
the evening of Nisan 15, less than three hours away. According to John
19:14 and 16, and John is emphatic about this: "It was the day of
preparation of the Passover ... then Pilate handed Jesus over to the
Jews to be crucified".
On the day of preparation of Passover, the evening sacrifice was killed
at the sixth hour and offered at the seventh (1:00pm). The killing of
the Passover lambs began immediately after and finished at the ninth
hour (3:00pm) when our Lord "Gave up the Ghost". And all four gospels
state emphatically that Jesus was buried before sunset on Nisan 14.
The new day beginning at 6:00pm was the HIGH DAY of Nisan 15, the FIRST
day of the feast (John 19:31) when the Passover meal was eaten. Nisan
15 is a FIXED date and was always a sabbath no matter on which day of
the week it fell. That year it fell on a Saturday, (our Friday sunset
to Saturday sunset).
Let's read Leviticus 23:4-8, "These are the feasts of the LORD, holy
convocations, which you shall proclaim in their appointed times. On the
fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the LORD'S Passover.
And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened
Bread unto the LORD: seven days you must eat unleavened bread.
On the first day you shall have a holy convocation: you shall do no
customary work therein. But you shall offer an offering made by fire to
the LORD for seven days. The seventh day is a holy convocation: you
shall do no customary work therein".
The first day of each of the three compulsory pilgrim feasts of
Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles was a "holy convocation". It was
called by the Hebrews "Good day", which is still the customary greeting
throughout Jewry to the present time.
The special sabbaths were fixed DATES, not fixed DAYS: they could fall
on any day of the week. To illustrate, if the sabbath of the first day
of the Feast of Unleavened Bread were a Saturday, the sabbath of the
seventh day could not be a Saturday.
The first and seventh days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread were not
the only special sabbaths or holy convocations. The Feast of Trumpets
on Tishri 1, Day of Atonement on Tishri 10, the first and eighth days
of the Feast of Tabernacles that same month were also special sabbaths.
If the first day of this Feast was a Saturday, the eighth must also be
a Saturday. But were the first day to fall on any other day of the
week, neither special sabbath would be a Saturday (Leviticus 23:23-32;
33-36).
Before closing, I'll quote Leviticus 23:10-11 so we can prove what day
Jesus was crucified. "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them,
'When you come into the land which I give you, and shall reap the
harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your
harvest to the priest: And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to
be accepted for you: on the day after the sabbath the priest shall wave
it'."
This sabbath is the high day or holy convocation of Nisan 15, the first
day of the feast of Unleavened Bread - commanded by verse 7. As the
sheaf was always waved on Nisan 16 which always follows the sabbath of
Nisan 15, it should be clear that it is not the regular weekly sabbath
that is here spoken of. However we know that in the year of Christ's
crucifixion, the sabbath of Nisan 15 fell upon a Saturday, because
Christ was the sheaf, and He was waved after His resurrection on the
first day of the week, which was the day after the regular Saturday
sabbath.
We'll pause our narrative after 3:00pm, Friday Nisan 14.
We've discovered the necessity of thinking according to the Hebrew
reckoning of time. We've received some fresh understanding on the
sequence of events regarding the last days of our Lord on earth, and by
calculating forward, recognized that His crucifixion had to be on a
Friday.
We now know that having been crucified on the day of Preparation of the
Passover, Jesus could not have eaten the Passover lamb with His
disciples (John 18:28; 19:14). And we've received valuable new insight
on the institution of the ordinances Lord's Supper and foot washing.
This is what Brother Branham said, and it is what he meant. If we can't
take his teachings to God's Word from Genesis to Revelation, then we,
not "he", have the wrong revelation. And I had the wrong revelation but
God caused a Brother to tap me on the shoulder with a little e-mail.
The Holy Spirit did the rest.
Critics may say, "What has this got to do with the Rapture"?
These are a few of the "missing clues" in the jig-saw puzzle. If we can
get the "little foxes out of the vine", we'll gain a more perfect
understanding of the "big picture", and that's Christ the fullness of
the Word. God bless you all.
(I was asked this question recently: "Why are Jesus' disciples coming
to Him on the First Day of Unleavened Bread according to Matthew 26:17,
asking where they should prepare the meal? How can they be doing this
on the First Day of Unleavened Bread if we are to believe that Jesus
was killed on Passover and was in the grave on the First Day of
Unleavened Bread?"
I responded, "If we look at John 13:1, "Now before the feast of the
Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour was come that He should depart
out of this world unto the Father, having loved His own which were in
the world, He loved them unto the end." This was, the preparation
day, or Nisan 14, (our Thursday sunset to Friday sunset). Nisan 15 was
a Saturday this particular year, making it a sabbath or holy
convocation, and Nisan 15, the first day of Unleavened Bread was always
a sabbath or holy convocation -- regardless which day of the week it
was. Therefore it was a "double sabbath" or "high day."
Now read John 18:28, "Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall
of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the
judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the
Passover." (This was probably very late Thursday night our time or
Nisan 14 Hebrew time -- still 18-19 hours before the Passover meal was
to be eaten on Friday evening our time which was Saturday evening Nisan
15 in Hebrew time).
Next we come to John 19:14, "And it was the preparation of the
Passover, and about the sixth hour: and Pilate said unto the Jews,
Behold your King!" This is about midnight (the sixth hour) Thursday
night or Nisan 14 -- about 18 hours before the Passover meal, and the
Pascal lambs were not killed until between 1:00-3:00pm that day -- 13
to 16 hours hence. The "day of preparation" was Nisan 14 when the
Hebrew people cleaned their homes from top to bottom to ensure there
was no leven in the house.
This brings us back to Matthew 26:17, "Now the first day of the feast
of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto Him, Where
wilt You that we prepare for You to eat the Passover?" (This is saying,
"Now the first day of Unleavened Bread was APPROACHING which was a
sabbath and on which work like "preparing for the Passover" was
forbidden under the Law").
Mark 14:12, "And the first day of (having no) Unleavened Bread (in the
house WAS AT HAND AND), when they killed the Passover, His disciples
said unto Him, 'Where wilt Thou that we go and prepare that You may eat
the Passover?"
And Luke 22:7-9, "Then came the day of (having no) Unleavened Bread (in
the house), when the Passover must be killed. And He sent Peter and
John, saying, Go and prepare us the Passover, that we may eat. And they
said unto Him, Where wilt You that we prepare?"
This should be understood as THEN THE DAY OF REMOVING ALL LEAVEN AND
UNLEAVENED BREAD FROM THE HOME WAS AT HAND , or day or PREPARATION for
the Day of Unleavened Bread and the Passover Meal. It cannot be the
first day of Unleavened Bread because the Passover was killed BEFORE
the day of Unleavened Bread. Had this been the first day of Unleavened
Bread they could prepare nothing, for it was a holy convocation and NO
work could be performed on that day).
Chart illustrating the Six Days Before Passover in Hebrew Time and
> 1800
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Date: 11 Aug 2006 08:04:01
From: Starlord
Subject: Re: When Was Jesus Crucified by Jews?
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"Chandler Muriel Bing" <ovilata@voila.fr > wrote in message
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garbage in
garbage out
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Date: 11 Aug 2006 07:44:19
From: Hagar
Subject: Re: When Was Jesus Crucified by Jews?
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"Chandler Muriel Bing" <ovilata@voila.fr > wrote in message
news:1155276735.381709.309050@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...
> Easter - When Was Jesus Crucified by Jews?
> snip religious bullshit <
Hey, Nutcase, there are groups dedicated to your crap !!!
Jesus was a carpenter
Jeasus also was a loudmouth.
Conclusion: Jesus was a loudmouth carpenter
Jesus thus pissed off the Romans.
The Romans then nailed him to the cross, their standard method of dealing
with the un-desirable elements within their realm.
Years later, retards made him their martyr.
Unfortunately, retardation spread and became religion. Short of the firing
squad, there is no known cure for this affliction.
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Date: 11 Aug 2006 10:59:39
From: George
Subject: Re: When Was Jesus Crucified by Jews?
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"Hagar" <hagen@sahm.name > wrote in message
news:JuCdnY2t-stZCkHZnZ2dnUVZ_vSdnZ2d@giganews.com...
>
> "Chandler Muriel Bing" <ovilata@voila.fr> wrote in message
> news:1155276735.381709.309050@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...
>> Easter - When Was Jesus Crucified by Jews?
>
>
>> snip religious bullshit <
>
> Hey, Nutcase, there are groups dedicated to your crap !!!
>
> Jesus was a carpenter
> Jeasus also was a loudmouth.
> Conclusion: Jesus was a loudmouth carpenter
> Jesus thus pissed off the Romans.
> The Romans then nailed him to the cross, their standard method of dealing
> with the un-desirable elements within their realm.
>
> Years later, retards made him their martyr.
> Unfortunately, retardation spread and became religion. Short of the
> firing
> squad, there is no known cure for this affliction.
The truth sometimes helps.
George
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Date: 11 Aug 2006 08:13:50
From: Mij Adyaw
Subject: Re: When Was Jesus Crucified by Jews?
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Denial is one of Satan's tricks. Unfortunately, you don't realize that you
are one of Satan's puppets. The only "truth" is that Jesus can save you.
Accept Jesus and your life will change for the better.
"George" <george@yourservice.com > wrote in message
news:jNudnerucrzGBkHZnZ2dnUVZ_t6dnZ2d@insightbb.com...
>
> "Hagar" <hagen@sahm.name> wrote in message
> news:JuCdnY2t-stZCkHZnZ2dnUVZ_vSdnZ2d@giganews.com...
>>
>> "Chandler Muriel Bing" <ovilata@voila.fr> wrote in message
>> news:1155276735.381709.309050@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...
>>> Easter - When Was Jesus Crucified by Jews?
>>
>>
>>> snip religious bullshit <
>>
>> Hey, Nutcase, there are groups dedicated to your crap !!!
>>
>> Jesus was a carpenter
>> Jeasus also was a loudmouth.
>> Conclusion: Jesus was a loudmouth carpenter
>> Jesus thus pissed off the Romans.
>> The Romans then nailed him to the cross, their standard method of dealing
>> with the un-desirable elements within their realm.
>>
>> Years later, retards made him their martyr.
>> Unfortunately, retardation spread and became religion. Short of the
>> firing
>> squad, there is no known cure for this affliction.
>
> The truth sometimes helps.
>
> George
>
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Date: 11 Aug 2006 15:19:33
From: Eugene Griessel
Subject: Re: When Was Jesus Crucified by Jews?
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"Mij Adyaw" <mij@TheBitBucket.com > wrote:
>Denial is one of Satan's tricks. Unfortunately, you don't realize that you
>are one of Satan's puppets. The only "truth" is that Jesus can save you.
>Accept Jesus and your life will change for the better.
Unfortuantely you cannot prove that Satan exists - all you are is a
puppet of the powermongers that use religion to enslave the gullible.
Eugene L Griessel
Science has proof without any certainty.
Creationists have certainty without any proof.
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Date: 11 Aug 2006 15:25:26
From: honestjohn
Subject: Re: When Was Jesus Crucified by Jews?
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"Mij Adyaw" <mij@TheBitBucket.com > wrote in message
news:P81Dg.452$cw.294@fed1read03...
> Denial is one of Satan's tricks. Unfortunately, you don't realize that you
> are one of Satan's puppets. The only "truth" is that Jesus can save you.
> Accept Jesus and your life will change for the better.
>
Great Words!
Nice to hear from you again,
H.J.
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Date: 11 Aug 2006 17:59:13
From: Bert Hyman
Subject: Re: When Was Jesus Crucified by Jews?
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mij@TheBitBucket.com (Mij Adyaw) wrote in
news:P81Dg.452$cw.294@fed1read03:
> Denial is one of Satan's tricks. Unfortunately, you don't realize
> that you are one of Satan's puppets.
Well gosh!
It's certainly convenient that - >you realize it.
But, how's that work?
--
Bert Hyman
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Date: 11 Aug 2006 13:56:12
From: George
Subject: Re: When Was Jesus Crucified by Jews?
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"Mij Adyaw" <mij@TheBitBucket.com > wrote in message
news:P81Dg.452$cw.294@fed1read03...
> Denial is one of Satan's tricks. Unfortunately, you don't realize that
> you are one of Satan's puppets. The only "truth" is that Jesus can save
> you. Accept Jesus and your life will change for the better.
Gee, I'll have to print that one out and attach it to my dart board. Five
points for a denial, 10 points for each Jesus, and 20 points for a satan
(double, of course if you hit both).
George
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Date: 11 Aug 2006 06:07:50
From: George
Subject: Re: When Was Jesus Crucified by Jews?
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The man has been dead for 2,000 years, bigot. Give it a rest.
George
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Date: 11 Aug 2006 07:30:35
From: Eugene Griessel
Subject: Re: When Was Jesus Crucified by Jews?
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"Chandler Muriel Bing" <ovilata@voila.fr > wrote:
>Easter - When Was Jesus Crucified by Jews?
Strangely enough he was crucified by the Romans. Jews did not
crucify. Deal with it Min.
Eugene L Griessel
The desire to be a politician should instantly disqualify a person
from becoming one.
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Date: 12 Aug 2006 20:50:17
From: Pat O'Connell
Subject: Re: When Was Jesus Crucified by Jews?
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Eugene Griessel wrote:
> "Chandler Muriel Bing" <ovilata@voila.fr> wrote:
>
>>Easter - When Was Jesus Crucified by Jews?
>
> Strangely enough he was crucified by the Romans. Jews did not
> crucify. Deal with it Min.
Danny's mind will be rearranged by your statement, especially when he
reads the tail ends of the Gospels. He will find out that The Gospel
authors don't always agree on everything, but they all agree on this
point: the Romans did it.
Incidentally, I'm not religious, but I have read several "sacred books"
of various religions while I was in college, and the Bible is one of
them. Each book has its good and bad points.
One thing for sure I learned from this study years ago is I'm certainly
not planning to worship any vengeful (and therefore evil) deities
anytime in the near or far future.
--
Pat O'Connell
[note munged EMail address]
Take nothing but pictures, Leave nothing but footprints,
Kill nothing but vandals...
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Date: 11 Aug 2006 07:00:55
From: Terry B
Subject: Re: I'm puzzled
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"T.T." <tonyt92@yahoo.com > wrote in message
news:%jRCg.10286$rP1.2510@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>
> "Phil Wheeler" <wt6uh-ng7@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:KVQCg.12123$Ta6.1491@tornado.socal.rr.com...
> > Martin R. Howell wrote:
> >> In the English language we seem to have terms which are vague in
> >> describing
> >> the absolute quantity to which they refer. They are (in no particular
> >> order):
> >>
> >> a few
> >> several
> >> many lots
> >> some
> >>
> >> Would somebody be so kind as to rank these in order of the quantity
they
> >> denote? What is the least number of stars in a field of view that
would
> >> qualify for each term?
> >>
> >> This has troubled me for years.
> >>
> >
> > You will soon be even more puzzled, Martin ;)
> >
> > Phil
> How mant tads in a smidgeon?
>
And likewise how small is an iota?
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Date: 11 Aug 2006 13:04:37
From: Linux Utilisateur
Subject: Re: When Was Jesus Crucified by Jews?
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The source of Judaic bigotry and hatred for Christ and His Church is in
the
Talmud. I should like to add that nowhere in the religion of Islam is
Christ
defamed. In fact, Jesus Christ is upheld as a prophet by the Muslims
and His
Name is reverenced, as is His Mother, Mary.
To highlight the absurdity of the Jewish Supremacist/ADL's response,
let us consider the horrible malice found in the anti-Christ Talmud
Tractate Gittin 57a. In some censored versions of Gittin 57a, the name
of Jesus is rendered as "sinner
(or 'sinners') of Israel." The Talmud in Gittin 57a contains a filthy
and
unbelievably scurrilous attack on Jesus Christ pertaining to a
punishment
Jesus supposedly underwent after his death. As is its custom, the ADL
shies
away from actually quoting Gittin 57a. It falls to us to reveal the
contents
of this ugly and psychotic Talmud section:
"He (the rabbi) then went and raised by incantations the sinners of
Israel.
He asked them...What is your punishment? They replied: With boiling
(in) hot
excrement."
The Talmud decrees that Jesus is in hell, being boiled in feces,
because he
opposed the rabbis. That's what this sick, pornographic, "holy book" of
Judaism says about the Christian Savior in Tractate Gittin 57a.
Without daring to cite or refer to Gittin 57a directly, the ADL's
convoluted
defense of this passage is as follows: "...the Talmud bears much
harsher
animus toward the Biblical figure of Balaam, the pagan magician who
sought
to curse the Jews...Rabbinic tradition...describes some of the
punishments
he (Balaam) may have suffered after his death...a small group of Jewish
scholars suggested that in some cases the term Balaam in the Talmud may
be a
codeword for Jesus...later scholars showed that this suggestion could
not be
true...anti-Semites have ever since claimed that the true hatred that
Judaism possesses for Christianity is expressed in these coded
expressions
against Balaam found in the Talmud."
But Gittin 57a in the Soncino edition of the Talmud, which the ADL
cites as
a reputable source (see p. 13 of the ADL pamphlet), refers not to
Balaam in
this bigoted and hateful passage, but to the "sinners of Israel." It
looks
as though the comedians in the ADL's vaunted "research department"
neglected
to conc a tall-tale explanation for how the coded "sinners of
Israel"
term is not a reference to Christ. They blustered about "Balaam" at
length
but forgot to offer any similar exegesis of "sinners of Israel." What a
joke!
Gittin 57a in the Soncino edition, with its reference to "sinners of
Israel"
being "boiled in hot excrement," contains a footnote for the passage,
labeled footnote #4. Located at the bottom of the page of Gittin 57a,
footnote #4 makes reference to the fact that "sinners of Israel" is
indeed a
coded reference to Jesus!
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