Posted on 04/18/2011 3:33:37 PM PDT by NYer
Catholic ping!
I’m always late for these things.
...and a dollar short?
Controversies and questions about the exact dating of the Passion Week events are nothing new. The biblical description is just vague enough to permit a number of hypotheses.
I think the Last Supper events really did go down on Thursday (Passover) night, and it really was an all-nighter for Jesus and the apostles and everybody else involved before his crucifixion. It would have been worth it from both Herod’s and Pilate’s point of view to rid themselves of a political nuisance, and both being pagans they couldn’t care less about doing it on Pesach. Shabbat would have been a bridge too far and given rise to too many complaints, though. That’s why Pilate had to see to it that the crucified men were dead before sundown.
It certainly proved that Jesus couldn’t have been married, because as Sam Kinison pointed out, no wife would believe a story about resurrection to explain a guy going out for the weekend with 12 of his best buddies.
Day late, date early, jeez, they were in a different time zone, Homer! What bout all those missing years, though?
‘I think Jesus is really reaching out to all sorts of people when he chooses not to use this official Jewish calendar,’’ he said.
HUH????
Yah..there’s so much evidence for something like that...
Plus, the consideration of a different calendar.
A day late and a shekel short!
How about 30 pieces of silver?
No thanks. That was a disaster last time.
He believes his findings, which are likely to cause ripples among millions of Christians,
Yawn.
Is that all they've got this year?
Also she would have smelled that rat Judas from a mile away
OK! OK!
I thought the early Catholic Church aligned the holidays to coincide with Pagan holidays to coax the Pagans away from their festivities and into Christian celebrations. This is why Christmas is in December, not June or July. Same with Easter - the Pagan Spring celebration. There was much liberty taken(rewritten who knows how many times?) with the Gospels. Who knows what the “originals” said.
Passover is when it is because, according to the Jewish Scriptures, God said that's when it should be.
There was much liberty taken(rewritten who knows how many times?) with the Gospels. Who knows what the originals said.
I suggest you do some more research. We have a variety of manuscripts discovered at different times and places, all of which are in substantial agreement. We also have the writings of the church fathers, which quote the Gospels and the rest of the NT frequently. We have a pretty good idea of what the original text said, and when it was written to within a decade or two.
Not a terribly new theory—it has been around for a while and the Holy Father endorsed it four years ago in his Holy Thursday homily.
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/homilies/2007/documents/hf_ben-xvi_hom_20070405_coena-domini_en.html
Given that Our Lord is God, it might be appropriate to think of the mainstream as celebrating Passover a day late, rather than the Church doing so a day early. There is also so much symbolism involved that I can see it handy for God to have arranged the double passover.
That article is very interesting. Thanks.
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