How do we know Easter was on Sunday?
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“All four gospels agree that Jesus was crucified on a Friday (Matthew 27:62, Mark 15:42; Luke23:54; John 19:42), just before a Sabbath, which was just before the first day of the week (Matthew 28:1, Mark 16:2, Luke 24:1, John 20:1)”
Julian or Gregorian?
There was a 10 day shift Julian ---> to Gregorian
The link I posted uses Jewish and Greek sources, based on scripture and the Jewish calendar. The point of it is showing from those sources, we can pinpoint not only the day of the week, but also the month (Nissan) and the year (33 AD).
The day they pinpoint is then also converted into Gregorian April 3rd, for us modern readers.
Wouldn't you have to do a 10 day shift to correct for a modern calendar?
Yes, for the April 3rd part only. As the article shows, it was in the middle of the Jewish month of Nissan, 33 AD.
Any references though to April are just to help us locate in the modern, Gregorian calendar. Any date conversions made between Julian and Gregorian do take into account the 10 day correction made in the 1500’s (one of the main reasons for switching to Gregorian was to correct the 1 day per century error in the Julian calendar, by refining the rules for determining leap years).