I've avoided nothing. Haven't you read in Acts 1 that one will receive power when being born in the Holy Spirit?Now you're playing a game of avoidance. I'll leave this alone.
I've avoided nothing. Haven't you read in Acts 1 that one will receive power when being born in the Holy Spirit?Now you're playing a game of avoidance. I'll leave this alone.
Jesus was born of the Holy Spirit in the womb, not at His baptism.
“Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit." (Matt. 1:20)
It was and it wasn't. It was technically held on Passover on the Jewish calendar day of Nissan 14, such a day starts and ends at 6 pm; it wasn't according to our time, which starts and ends at 12.
Haven't you noticed that in this way you'd add up 4 nights, rendering the resurrection at the 4th day?Agreed. The exact year matters. And we can determine the year by following out the historic fulfillment of the Seventy-weeks of years prophecy from Daniel 9:27 while matching it to references made in the gospel accounts (like in John 2:20, the fact that the temple was 46 yrs in building at the time the Messiah's ministry began at 30yrs old), while knowing that there's no such thing as a "zero" year when going from BCE to CE., and know that the Hebrew reckoning of time is to count the 1st year as year 1. This brings us to a 3 BCE birth.
Then, through the first chapters of Luke, we can determine that the Messiah was born on the feast of tabernacles (15th of the 7th month) using the timing of Zechariah's priestly course (1 Chronicles 24:7-18) and John the Baptist's birth as reference points.
Next, if we remove John 6:4 (because it was added by the RCC), that brings Messiah's ministry to exactly 490 days, perfectly aligning with the seventy-weeks prophecy and places His crucifixion in 27/28AD.
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But regarding the last supper, there is a translation error that's causing you both to miss each other... because you're both correct from a pov.
The account says the day was "the preparation", when lambs are slaughtered in preparation for the feast. Because no work is allowed to be done on the first day of the feast by law (because it is a high sabbath), you're correct, the Passover is not "the Feast of Unleavened Bread" (but bible translators wouldn't know this culturally, so they mislabeled Chag HaMatzot "Passover" or "Passover Festival" or "Passover Feast"). They knew the sacrificial lamb was called "the passover" but didn't know the name of the feast, so they were basically calling it "the feast of the sacrificial lamb".
This is the reason why you and @Lovette are missing each other's points.
In truth, Passover is the final workday before the high sabbath Day One of the 7-day feast of Unleavened Bread. Messiah was crucified on Passover (at 3pm) at the exact time when the yearling lambs were slaughtered on the temple mount, and He was in the ground (as they were placed in the ovens) before the start of the feast (which starts that evening with the evening's meal). Which means His last supper was the evening before. Here's the sequence:
Last Supper (Passover/Preparation day) - Tuesday evening...
[betrayal, arrest, trial, beating...]
His crucifixion (Passover/Preparation day) - Wednesday daylight...
[Joseph of Aramathaea placed the Messiah's body in the tomb]
[The Marys witness this and leave]
[Nic brings burial spices, and he and Joseph anoint the body]
High Sabbath Feast day 1 - Wednesday evening...
[No work. No buying or selling]
[Everyone eats the Passover Lamb w/bitter herbs (romaine lettuce) for the feast of Chag HaMatzot]
High Sabbath Feast day 1 - Thursday daylight...
[No work. No buying or selling]
Feast day 2 (work day) - Thursday evening...
[No shops open at night]
Feast day 2 (work day) - Friday daylight...
[The Marys buy burial spices to anoint His body, assuming it didn't happen]
[This was a full day's task since they needed enough for a human body]
[Plan to anoint the body at the start of the new week because the weekly sabbath was upon them]
Feast day 3 (weekly sabbath) - Friday evening...
[No work. No buying or selling]
Feast day 3 (weekly sabbath) - Saturday daylight...
[No work. No buying or selling]
Feast day 4 (Day of First Fruits) - Saturday evening...
[Resurrection of Messiah and the firstfruit saints]
[Messiah remains secluded in worship as required by the high priest, preparing the firstfruit offering]
Feast day 4 (Day of First Fruits) - Sunday daylight...
[Messiah presents Himself to the women but asks that they not touch Him yet]
[Messiah presents Himself and those who also resurrected with Him as firstfruits to the Almighty in heaven]
[Messiah likely went to preach to the unclean spirits imprisoned in the Pit]
[Messiah then presents Himself to the apostles on earth and encourages them to touch Him]
"Ghost" is dead people who met an untimely demise, wondering around the earth, punished to finished their earthly business. This is not my invention or any modern invention, but an existing belief during the Lord's ministry, Thomas thought he was seeing a ghost when the resurrected Jesus appeared to him.if you are believer in a trinity -- the father of Christ would not God the Father, it would be the spirit or as some prefer, the "ghost".
Nope, it was Paul who later instituted it, what Lord Jesus did was proposing the new covenant.the "last supper" is the Spiritual Passover which Christ instituted on the night of the 14th, the physical Passover is during the day (light) of the afternoon of the 14th.
Christ died at our 3 PM - the afternoon of the 14th, at sundown ending the 14th, the Feast of Unleavened Bread begins on the 15th
Passover is not a Holy Day, it is the "preparation day"
I've avoided nothing. Haven't you read in Acts 1 that one will receive power when being born in the Holy Spirit?
Nope, if it were Wednesday, He'd be in the tomb for 4 nights and his rise would be on the 4th day - Wednesday evening to Thusday morning, Thursday evening to Friday morning, Friday evening to Saturday morning, Saturday evening to Sunday morning. It has to be Thursday. I might be wrong on the mid week point.You are correct, Christ was put in the tomb minutes before sundown ended the 14th, at mid week our Wednesday.
Thus Christ was in the tomb for 3 days and 3 nights exactly as HE foretold.
"Ghost" is dead people who met an untimely demise, wondering around the earth, punished to finished their earthly business. This is not my invention or any modern invention, but an existing belief during the Lord's ministry, Thomas thought he was seeing a ghost when the resurrected Jesus appeared to him.
Nope, if it were Wednesday, He'd be in the tomb for 4 nights and his rise would be on the 4th day - Wednesday evening to Thusday morning, Thursday evening to Friday morning, Friday evening to Saturday morning, Saturday evening to Sunday morning. It has to be Thursday.
In correct culculation, Jewish nights and days must be used instead of Gregarian, a calendar day starts and ends at 6 pm. If your "thursday night" means Wednesday evening to Thusday morning, then you've missed Sunday night.put in tomb moments before sunset Wednesday day
using man's days and nights
He is the lord of the sabbath. He resurrected on the sabbath and then had High Priestly duties to do (specifically for the firstfruit offering). You can't do that if you are dead. The 3rd day was the Sabbath day, not Sunday. He didn't present himself until Sunday, but he was alive on the Sabbath.Haven't you noticed that in this way you'd add up 4 nights, rendering the resurrection at the 4th day?
Wrong. Friend preparation day is ALWAYS before the feast, it's in the word. Read the OT passage you shared. What are they preparing on preparation day? In the Old Testament, the lambs were slaughtered on the 14th, and their blood covered the doorposts.The "preparation day" was Nissan 15, the day AFTER the Passover, not before. It is really frustrating that you guys interpret the NT with your own traditions and doctrines isntead of God's ordained dates in the OT, complicating otherwise simple matters.
On the fourteenth day of the first month is the Passover of the Lord. And on the fifteenth day of this month is the feast; unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days. On the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work. (Num. 28:16-18)
Now you're just making stuffs up.He is the lord of the sabbath. He resurrected on the sabbath and then had High Priestly duties to do (specifically for the firstfruit offering). You can't do that if you are dead. The 3rd day was the Sabbath day, not Sunday. He didn't present himself until Sunday, but he was alive on the Sabbath.
Read it again, man. The evening of the preparation day had already come, that's the BEGINNING of the preparation day, from 6 pm to 6 pm! Since that's the day before the Sabbath, it would be Friday, at that point Lord Jesus was already dead! At 3 pm! Is it really this difficult to comprehend a Jewish day from 6 pm to 6 pm? This has actually proved that the crucifixion must've taken place on Thursday!Wrong. Friend preparation day is ALWAYS before the feast, it's in the word. Read the OT passage you shared. What are they preparing on preparation day? In the Old Testament, the lambs were slaughtered on the 14th, and their blood covered the doorposts.
.....Lovette, there were TWO SABBATHS that week. The high sabbath feast day and then the weekly sabbath.Now you're just making stuffs up.
Read it again, man. The evening of the preparation day had already come, that's the BEGINNING of the preparation day, from 6 pm to 6 pm! Since that's the day before the Sabbath, it would be Friday, at that point Lord Jesus was already dead! At 3 pm! Is it really this difficult to comprehend a Jewish day from 6 pm to 6 pm? This has actually proved that the crucifixion must've taken place on Thursday!
Now when evening had come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath ... (Mk. 15:42)
Yes, the preparation day was the high sabbath, Nissan 15; the next day was a regular Saturday Sabbath......Lovette, there were TWO SABBATHS that week. The high sabbath feast day and then the weekly sabbath.
If the preparation day was a high sabbath, wouldn't they be in violation of the law for "preparing" anything?Yes, the preparation day was the high sabbath, Nissan 15; the next day was a regular Saturday Sabbath.
What did they prepare?If the preparation day was a high sabbath, wouldn't they be in violation of the law for "preparing" anything?
Ask the Pharisees and high priest about that, who badgered Lord Jesus on multiple occassions for healing the sick and performing miracles on Sabbath, and they themselves gathered for "customary work", colluded with Pilate to set guards at the tomb.
On the next day, which followed the Day of Preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees gathered together to Pilate, saying, “Sir, we remember, while He was still alive, how that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise.’ Therefore command that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest His disciples come by night and steal Him away, and say to the people, ‘He has risen from the dead.’ So the last deception will be worse than the first.” Pilate said to them, “You have a guard; go your way, make it as secure as you know how.” So they went and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone and setting the guard. (Matt. 27:62-66)
So, all the records that indicate that there were two calendars operating in 1st century Palestine are wrong, even those dating to the 1st century? Might I ask where you got this information?I don't know where you've got the idea that the Passover lamb is to be "sacrificed the afternoon before the Passover." In the "example set in Egypt", the lamb was killed right on the Passover. And there's no "unofficial Galilean calendar." Again, if He got the date wrong, then He wasn't the messiah.
You must watch over it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to slaughter it at twilight. They are to take the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the crossbeam of the houses where they will eat it. With unleavened bread and bitter herbs they are to eat it. (Ex. 12:6-8)
There is no clear evidence to support this claim or to justify the exclusion of the verse. Rather, in accordance with 1st century CE writing styles, it would seem to be original. If it is not original, then the proper guidelines would not have been followed and the entire gospel would have been dismissed as second rate literature and not worth preserving. A point often overlooked in assessing the gospels and Acts, there were literary standards and the standards were expected to be met if a work was to be deemed worthy f preservation.Next, if we remove John 6:4 (because it was added by the RCC),