Finally found the calendar that helped me when I made the same mistake several months ago. I always thought that Jesus couldn't have been in the grave for 3 days and 3 night like Jonah on the belly of the fish. I had to reconnoiter.
It is easy to do with the teachings we get as a child in Sunday School. No fault of the teacher. Anyway this is what enlightened me. I say again that the Passover was after dark which was the beginning of day 15. Jesus rose before dawn on the 18th day, the first day of the week.
Exodus 12:8 (KJV)
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8 [/SUP]And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread;
and with bitter
herbs they shall eat it.
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Now that one is correct. This is April 25, 31AD on the Gregorian calendar and Nisan 14 on the Hebrew calendar. One and the same day. Wednesday.
Now let's put a little gasoline on the fire...
Dan 9:25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
There were actually four decrees...
1) The decree of Cyrus...
Ezr 1:1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
Ezr 1:2 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Ezr 1:3 Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.
Ezr 1:4 And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.
536BC add 69 weeks (483 years) and we come to 53BC. This doesn't work, it is way to early.
2) The decree of Darius I...
Ezr 6:8 Moreover I make a decree what ye shall do to the elders of these Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king's goods, even of the tribute beyond the river, forthwith expenses be given unto these men, that they be not hindered.
520BC add 69 weeks (483 years) and we come to -37BC. Still early.
3) The decree of Artaxerxes I...
Ezr 7:11 Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel.
Ezr 7:12 Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace, and at such a time.
Ezr 7:13 I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.
457BC add 69 weeks (483 years) and we come to 26AD but there is no year zero so we have to add one more and we come to 27AD. Christ began His ministry in 27AD and was crucified in 31AD
4) The decree of Artaxerxes...
Neh 2:7 Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah;
Neh 2:8 And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.
Neh 2:9 Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.
444BC add 69 weeks (483 years) and we come to 39AD but there is no year zero so we have to add one more and we come to 40AD. This is too late.
Of the four decrees, the only one that works is 457BC.
Dan 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Dan 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,
This occurred on a Wednesday, the middle of the week. Christ became the sacrifice and the sacrifices were no longer required.
and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate,
And the Temple was made desolate in 70AD.
even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
At the consummation, the abominations are poured out on the desolator (see the margin here, desolate should have been rendered desolator) The AoD will recieve back what he has caused.
All of this to make the point that Christ was crucified on a Wednesday.