HOW MANY HOURS WAS JESUS DEAD ON THE CROSS?

NO.. One last time.. The Passover day started at sundown tuesday Jesus had his passover / last supper with His apostles After Sundown tuesday.. Therefore Jesus had the passover meal on the right day on Passover AND was executed on the same day Passover..

If you cannot accept it then so be it..

You're right - by now, I see it wasn't morning, but evening when He died.
But it was still hard to figure out what days were in which He was dead. The Bible doesn't explain how to compare their calendar they were using, with ours. The only places ones can find that is not in the Bible - so hard to tell how trustworthy such a knowledge source is.
I studied the story through Mark, today. I color-coded the events to try to keep track of them.
(1) The first Passover Mark 14:12-54.
(2) Jesus took some disciples with Him up to the Mount of Olives, the next morning - Mark 14:26 I assume it was morning - I can't find the verse just now, but in the Old Testament, somewhere, it said that they were forbidden to go out of their houses until the morning after the day of the Passover was through.
(3) Jesus was arrested during His prayer time there in the Mount of Olives. Peter denied Him 3 times - evidently before the next morning came.
(4) He was brought to trial that morning, and then handed over to Pilate. After which He was shortly crucified. And Jesus died right after a period of 3 hours of darkness. Joseph of Arimathea came and took His body and put it into the tomb that evening. Which was evidently, the day before the "day of preparation" - whatever that means in that passage - either referring to the Sabbath Day or to the 2nd Passover Feast day.
(5) One thing clear is that He was dead for 3 days. Also he rose from the dead on "the first day of the week" - whatever day that might have been on our calendar.
Comment: Like what one Bible commentator said on the subject, He couldn't have died on a Friday and been dead 3 days and rose on the first day of the week, if that day means Sunday. Since 3 days don't fit in that time span.

I've concluded it seems evident the Bible doesn't make clear (or state in words clearly what days are meant throughout the story) according to the Roman calendar or ours - what days exactly the events of his arrest, crucifixion, burial and rising from the dead took place. Sure there are explanations online - but they aren't from the Bible and so are based on human assumption, I think. All that's clear that I can think of are these things: (1) He died before Sabbath (on someone;s calendar definition of Sabbath day (2) He rose on the 1st day of the week - I'd think that would refer to Sunday (unless it was a different day back then that was regarded as the first day of the week), at least if going by the fact that Jesus rested from creating, on the 7th day - which at the time of the creation - meant the last day of the week -Genesis 2:2, and that He was dead for 3 days for sure -as that is made very clear in the Bible - Matthew 17:23 & Matthew 12:40

Does it say he rose on the first day of the week? Or does it say they came to the tomb early on the first day of the week and he was already up?

Also he had more than one hearing. They sent him to another governor who heard his case and then sent him back to someone else. All that took time. No high speed trains in those days.

Yes, I thought I was able to count 3 days - I color coded 4 days, according to these labels, (1) The first Passover and His arrest - and His being brought before Annas, the High priest. That was the event in which Peter denied Jesus 3 times, before a rooster crowed. (2) The next morning, very early, He was brought before Pilate. At the end of that trial, Jesus was crucified "in the 6th hour." I looked online again at the Jewish clock and the Roman clock. It looks like the Roman one is the one gone by in the story. According to that Roman clock, He was crucified at 6 PM, and died at about 9 PM. (3) I had counted the following Sabbath - the next day, I mean - as being the 3rd day He was dead. I guess I guessed ok. He must have risen late on Sabbath day. There seems to have been possibly 2 Sabbath days from 2 different calendars, now that I think of it, though. I just finished going through the story in John. And noticed it said that The Passover Feast day in which He died, was also a Sabbath day. A bit confusing. I can't find it but will look again later. From my notes:
John 18:39 Pilate said they had the custom of setting a prisoner free on the day of the Passover. He asked if they'd be willing to set Jesus free in that event.
19:14 It was the day to prepare for the Passover - called "the day of preparation." It was about the 6th hour, at this point.
19:31 Since it was the day of preparation (Passover day) - the Jews didn't want the bodies to remain on the crosses on the Sabbath day. So they asked Pilate if the legs of all the men on the 3 crosses, could be broken, so that they'd die sooner.
19:38-42 Then Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave it. Joseph buried Him in His tomb. And Nicodemus brought along embalming substances. They laid His body in the tomb, because it was Preparation day (Passover day) - and evidently, the sepulchure was in plain view of where the Passover Feast was to take place.
Comments: Sometimes it sounds like the Passover was on a Sabbath day, but I wavered on it. It also sounds (and reasonably so) like the reason they wanted the men off their crosses so they wouldn't be on them on the Sabbath day. But the 3 days in the tomb couldn't have been counted from that Sabbath (whoever's calendar that was going by) since that doesn't give enough time for being dead 3 days.

Watchman Nee?

@Adstar ... disagree all you want ... but when you state:


then what you are claiming is that Jesus ate the Passover meal on the evening of the 13th, which would have been the end of the 13th day / beginning of the 14th day.

It is written, "three nights and three days." This suffices for any who believe.

This is all that I know...

The High Priest accused him of blasphemy, judged him guilty, and gave him the death penalty (Matthew 26:65-66). The High Priest, Chief Priest, Scribes, and Elders began to torture Jesus. They began by spiting in his face (Matthew 26:67), they blindfolded him and began beating him repeatedly in the face and body with their fists. They must have really pounded the H out of him because the Scripture declares he was beat beyond that of any other man. As he was still blindfolded, they asked him to prophesy who was hitting him, mocking him as a prophet by asking him to identify the unseen attackers (Luke 22:63-64).

Around dawn he was interrogated again and then taken to the Roman Governor of Judea, Pontius Pilate (Luke 22:63-71,23:1). Pilate sent him back to Herod, who along with his soldiers, mocked him and dressed him in royal clothes like if he were a king, and sent him back to Pilate (Luke 23:6-11). Pilate had Jesus scourged, meaning he was savagely whipped by Roman soldiers using whips with bone-like substance at the end of the thongs. A band of soldiers, meaning hundreds, gathered to mock and torture him (Matthew 27:27-31, Mark 15:16-20, John 19:1-3).

Nobody knows if this mocking and torturing continued all night. In the morning the soldiers had to dress him again in his own clothes, which probably caused more pain and bleeding by the changing of the clothing.

I think it would be safe to say that he was probably carried or dragged out of the judgment hall since it does not seem likely he could have walked, being completely battered, a bloody piece of beaten, torn flesh that was not recognizable as a man. He was beaten cruelly with whips, punched repeatedly with the force of a soldier's fist, slapped with palms, and frequently beat with his face covered, and then teased to name who was hitting him. He had thorns beat into his scalp, was physically tortured, and was accused and interrogated totally illegally. He was spit on frequently, dressed and undressed by men, and was paraded as the village idiot—as he was mocked by the torturing soldiers before a crowd seeking his death.

From the time Jesus was arrested to the time he was put on the cross was at least thirty-three hours. During this time he faced unspeakable mental and physical torture, was horrendously flogged, and became a lacerated mass of bleeding flesh, beaten as badly as a man could be without having a bone broken. And then after the preceding hours of beatings, harassment, and physical abuse, he still hung on the tree for six hours after he was nailed to it.

I guess I can't see the figures of the timing involved, from His arrest to His death exactly the same as you. But that's not important compared to the importance of what He did for the world, through dying on the cross for the world's sins, of course. As you said, that verse that says He was beaten more than any other man, sure shows that it was an extraordinary amount of suffering He went through on the cross. You brought out a fact I hadn't noticed, about His being beaten - must have been so severe. I know that Simon of Cyrene had to carry His cross on the way to Golgotha.
Thanks for your insights on the story. And going over the story in deep detail, helps make it more meaningful and memorable.

For an in-depth look at the resurrected Christ Jesus...
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MyrtleTrees,
re: "Yes, it was in the evening, as you say."

Where did I say that it was in the evening?

In agreement that a detailed study of exactly what occurred between the time Jesus was taken from the garden of Gethsemane to the time He was crucified gives a clear view of His sufferings and really puts in perspective the verse by His stripes we were healed (1 Peter 2:21-24).