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.
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...
A day late and a shekel short!
He believes his findings, which are likely to cause ripples among millions of Christians,
Yawn.
Is that all they've got this year?
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.
Based on the Jewish idea of when days began and ended, it DID happen on Thursday. The Jewish day begins at sundown, so Wednesday after sundown was Thursday.
Why else would we wait until sundown on Holy Saturday to celebrate the Easter Vigil?
Looks like one more case of man trying to show supposed inconsistencies in the Word.