This year also feels extraordinary for the Jewish and Assyrian communities of faith, as for the first time since 33 A.D., the Pesach Seder (Passover Dinner), which corresponds to the Last Supper in Catholic traditions, fell on the exact same day (Wednesday evening). 2026 marks the first such occurrence in the modern era under the calendars of both faiths, given there have been no instances of the full triple alignment (full moon + Pesach/15 Nisan beginning at sunset + Holy Thursday in the earlier Catholic sunset reckoning) on a Wednesday night since 33 A.D.
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This means the Last Supper Jesus held with His Disciples was Tuesday night, he was arrested that night after the meal when they went to the Garden, He was taken before the Jewish leadership during the night and to Pilot on Wednesday morning, crucified at 9am and died on the cross at the same time the Passover lambs were being slaughtered then laid in the tomb at sundown Wednesday Passover evening staying in the grave for 3 days and 3 nights and His resurrection was after sundown Saturday. The reason the tomb was empty before sunrise Sunday which was the Feast of Firstruits. Jesus was the FIRST to be resurrected to eternal life and then some of the Saints whose tombs were opened at His Crucifixion. Jesus then ascended to the Father on Sunday morning at the same time the Priests at the Temple were making the Feast of Firstfruits offerings. Well, that changes the Good Friday the Catholic church has taught for centuries.
I know, I do tend to ramble! Kek
Am I missing something? What about the 40 days between the Resurrection and Ascension ?
I stopped at the resurrection. Jesus ascended to the Father on Sunday but then returned to see His disciples for the next 40 days.
Makes so much more sense! I always wondered why Friday to Sunday morning was considered “3 days.” Fascinating! Thank you. He has risen!
Most people miss that the day of preparation is usually Friday but this particular week there were 2 sabbaths. One on Friday and the regular sabbath Saturday so the day of preparation would have been Thursday.
I’m not big on the calendar debates (they can get nasty for reasons I don’t understand), still, it would be good for people to meditate on this potential.
It is unarguable that the Roman calendar does not align with the Biblical/Hebrew/Lunar/God’s calendar, and that timing is incredibly important with God.
Are we, now, presently, in the beast system?
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All this about dates are just a side note.
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What I meant is the date of the crucifixion is not as important as the event!
It’s among the proof of it, but yes it’s definitely not the purpose of it.
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Thanks, Expert, you've cited a full-orbed Wednesday crucifixion special, "A Family Guide to the Biblical Holidays(C)". It has the same problems with this theory that I've outlined here. I will agree that the Wed people who do this bring a little more argument to the table, but I believe that's because the traditional narrative has Palm Sunday and I find this to be Palm Monday instead (and I grant that's me going against tradition so I keep it as a more tenuous view).
The basic issue is that the schedule inserted two more days to pull the resurrection back from Sun to Sat, contrary to Lev. 23:11.
In this fuller version of the schedule, they also run into the traditional Christian calendar inserting one extra day somewhere between "Palm Sunday" and Good Friday. Most Christian sources who do this say there was a whole day of relative silent study between Jesus and the apostles; but when I tracked this assumption I found it to be because they really wanted the triumphal entry on "Sunday" rather than because they honored the text.
If the entry was Sun then Jesus's journey from Jericho to Bethany the day before was Sat, but he would not have engaged such a long journey on Sat. John 12:1, "Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany." But my key belief here is that this is not what we literally call "6 days before" (i.e. Sat 8 Nisan), it is 6 days inclusive from Sun 9 Nisan to Fri 14 Nisan, consistent with counting in other passages. It's notable to Luke for being 6 days because people were thinking then about Passover being the 6th day of the week. This is a second signal that the day is Sun in addition to the signal that Jesus is traveling. (We could easily have Zacchaeus's house Fri-Sat night, Luke 19.) Also, Palm Monday would fall on the 10th and not the 9th, to coincide with the inspection of the lamb.
From there your link follows the traditional chronology except for compressing it two extra days to get to Wed crucifixion, and then adding back the two days for Sat resurrection and Sun testimony. I'm arguing for the median during Holy Week, one day less than tradition and one day more than the Wed position.
Add: The link also makes a clear error at the end, it puts "Firstfruits" on Sat (before sundown) when Lev. 23:11 says clearly Firstfruits is the day after the Sabbath. That was probably just a sloppy addition of the word "Firstfruits" in the wrong place rather than an intentional error. Note also that it uses the same system it rejects, inclusive counting, by having the "sixth" through "second" days before Passover be counted inclusively rather than as we do today. It gives the "Second Day Before Passover" Nisan 13 as what we call the day before "Passover" Nisan 14. Well, then Sunday is the "third day after" Friday, pretty simple, huh?
I probably should write this up separately because there are enough subtleties that it should take its own form.
To be clear, I simply brought this up for consideration.
Calendars are not a strength of mine, and you will not see me making strong claims about a specific timeline, and certainly not with judgments attached. The only thing I do feel quite strongly is incorrect is the Roman Calendar-based timeline, which is simply, and intentionally, wrong.
However, I am most certainly not a calendar expert.
What seems important to me is the realization that the timelines and understandings Christianity has been given on times aren’t even close to correct.
God's calendar is purely solar it has nothing to do with the moon whatsoever.
False, you're thinking of the Julian and Gregorian calendars, which are purely solar. God's calendar is lunisolar and respects both, just as the Catholic/Orthodox calculations of Easter demonstrate by requiring the moon to assist in the date setting. (For comparison, a purely lunar calendar is exemplified by Islam, which loses pace with the sun about 11 days each solar year.)
https://biblehub.com/topical/m/moon.htm
This is the Wed crucifixion theory, which as you state it is the same as the Fri crucifixion theory two days off during Holy Week, and then with the early morning Sun resurrection. There are problems with this that I've laid out here. Brief version:
If we were in the original culture we'd all understand that "on the third day" and "three days and three nights" mean the same thing, portions of three days, Fri to Sun; there is tremendous linguistic evidence for this.
The 15th of the month was indeed a rest day, but it was never called Sabbath in that era and there's no textual reason for it to have been Thu rather than Sat. In the most favored year, 33, it was Sat and agreed with the weekly Sabbath. Putting it on Thu also changes the year to 31, which is well behind 33 and 30 in preferability. The Wed people are required to make this a named "Sabbath" (rather than an annual miqra rest day) to make their system work, against the evidence.
The Wed crucifixion was proposed by people who thought Sun was too pagan for Jesus to rise upon, so they moved his resurrection to Sat against the tradition, and then moved the crucifixion to Wed because they didn't understand the cultural idiom. This belies them as literalists because they reject the many more texts saying "on the third day" as not being literal, and also belies their method of restoring Hebrew roots because Lev. 23:11 specifically affirms that Firstfruits (Resurrection Day) is to be on a Sunday, the day after Sabbath.
[For SDA folks, it's also hypocritical to say we must have 3 full nights and 3 full days, because they calculate from spring 457 BC to spring 31 BC as 486.5 years when it's actually 487.0 years. So all of a sudden they are not counting the correct number of springs and falls even as they insist on counting the "correct" number of nights and days.]
So the Wed people are understandably working from a goal of honoring 7th-day Sabbath and Hebrew roots, but then they fail to honor all the Hebrew roots by focusing wrongly on one section and making wild inferences out of cultural context. I'll be happy to explain details to those interested.
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All this is nice to have a friendly discussion but it does not matter. The resurrection is the most important thing. I was not there for the "original culture" but the ONLY "sign" Jesus gave that He was the Messiah was the sign of Jonah. As Jonah spent 3 days and 3 night in the belly of the fish---The Wednesday crucifixion was not "proposed" by a group of people because of Sunday. Jesus was fulfilling the Feast of Firstfruits just like He fulfilled the Passover Feast. Firstfruits was always the "day after the Sabbath after Passover". It is not hypocritical to say we must have "3 days and 3 nights" unless you are saying Jesus is a hypocrite! He said it---not me. As far as the calendar relates to 33AD or other dates that long ago, who know? The Hebrew calendar always started on a Sunday as the 1st of the month and 7th as the Sabbath. This would mean that Firstfruits was ALWAYS on the 15th of their monthly calendar. ALl this is not worth the time to argue over. It does not matter which day you believe. The reality os in Jesus' death and resurrection. Amen
Oh, I thought you weren't defending the Wed crucifixion because of your language. Agreed the resurrection is the most important.
The passage given may be the "only" sign to the scribes and Pharisees only (Matt. 12:38-40). But a sign to Herod was "on the third day" (Luke 13:32), and this is the expression used much more often. Another sign to all "the Jews" was "in three days" (John 2:18-19, not what we'd call "after three days"). It's not useful for people to insist that their meaning of "only" and "sign" automatically judges the case.
It's unlikely Jonah spent 72 full hours in the fish anyway, as this is also an assumption that doesn't deal with the context.
If you can find me someone proposing the Wed crucifixion who doesn't reject 1st-day rest as a motivation, let me know; I've never found one.
The fact that Firstfruits is always the day after the Sabbath indicates a Sun resurrection, which for Wed people would be a fraction of the fourth night. I too could say the 72-hour view never made sense to me because they don't begin and end exactly at sundown (since everyone else says Fri not making sense to them is a valid evidence).
If you want "three days and three nights" to mean literally what we mean by that in modern English, why don't you want "on the third day" and "in three days" to mean what we mean now? How do you reconcile the transfiguration between "after 6 days" and "on the 8th day"? The same tension is at work. There are many such cases and I haven't listed them all in one place (someday I will).
The math of Lev. 23 is that Firstfruits is on whatever "Sunday" occurs between the 16th and the 22nd of the moon. So there you've just made a hasty statement about the 15th, it appears. (Modern Jews have Firstfruits always on the 16th, but they admit they're redefining the text, and Moses taken literally doesn't authorize that.)
Perhaps I shouldn't argue. If a person wants to believe something inessential and they don't want to work through what appear to me to be mistakes, they can have that. But I do speak what I see to be true in case someone wants to hear, and also in case I'm wrong and need to be corrected myself. So I wish you a blessed Holy Week and celebration of Jesus's death and resurrection in any case!
It's unlikely Jonah spent 72 full hours in the fish anyway, as this is also an assumption that doesn't deal with the context.
The Bible says he did and Jesus said He did. That is good enough for me.
When Jesus rose from the grave He descended into the earth and preached to the prisoners according to Peter.
In English the 3 days and 3 nights is not nearly as precise as the Greek in which it was written.
In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover. Yes I made a hasty statement, The next day would be the holy day of the unleavened bread and the next Sunday would have been Firstfruits. Sorry about that.
I am not defending either way as you seem to be bent on a Friday crucifixion. I don't know and many Christian scholars have argued the point for centuries for and against but it does not matter. The END of the matter!
No, the Bible and Jesus don't say "72 full hours". That's an interpretation taken from a modern view of the meaning of three days and three nights. Consider the Egyptian who fasted "three days and three nights" but was only deprived as of "hayom shlishah", lit. "the third day" [ago], aka the day before yesterday (1 Sam. 30:12-13; "three days" NET, YLT).
I appreciate your link as I have great respect for Missler. If he came out for Wednesday crucifixion I'll need to look at him carefully (separately). I usually agree with him but not always.
You can't get 3 days and 3 nights from Friday to Sunday morning. You can get part of 3 days but only 2 nights. REGARDLESS of the back and forth, I am not taking a stance either way. We do not know which calendars the NT writers were using. They were living in a Roman occupied nation so probably a Roman calendar but the Jews also had their religious calendar. It really doesn't matter. I posted what I did---and I don't swear it is correct----in the view of the Wednesday crucifixion. Many great scholars through the centuries have good argument for a Friday crucifixion but the 3 days and 3 night theory does not fit that either. A Thursday crucifixion fits the 3 days and 3 nights but doesn't fit the rest of it. Our MAIN focus--instead of going back and forth over something that does not matter and hasn't been resolved for centuries---is the death and resurrection of Jesus. Have a great Sunday resurrection day!
deep breath The three days and three nights is from Thursday night to Sunday morning. Entering the tomb Friday afternoon means the whole day from Thursday night to Friday night is included. Even the graphic supplied in this thread counts inclusively in this way while trying to fight inclusive counting, as I showed.
What we can't do is say he rose "on the third day" if he was buried on Wednesday and rose on Saturday because Saturday is the fourth day he would be in the grave then. They simply didn't count the way you describe in ordinary practice.
People who take a single text out of proportion while ignoring many other texts are often captivated by an agenda. If you continue as a student of the Scriptures, the Spirit will show you how to reconcile the many texts with the one.
A great study!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyIz4oj_U6A&t=540s
"Well, that changes the Good Friday the Catholic church has taught for centuries."
Yeah, on opposite day maybe
Literally all four of the Gospels tell us that Jesus was crucified on the day of preparation, which is a Friday.
"Three days and three nights" is a Hebrew idiom, it doesn't literally mean three 24 hour days.
Jesus Himself stated in Matthew that the only proof He would give that He was the Messiah is that, just as Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days and three nights, He would be in the earth for three days and three nights.
Friday afternoon until Sunday morning before light is not three days and three nights. The Crucifixion happened on Wednesday. There was a holy day treated as a sabbath on Thursday. The women bought spices on Friday. One book says they had to wait until after the sabbath to buy spices. Another says they bought spices before the sabbath. This proves that there were two sabbaths in that week. Saturday was the weekly sabbath. Jesus rose at the end of the sabbath at sunset, not on Sunday morning. The women found the empty tomb on the first day of the week while it was yet dark. That was probably around 10 hours after the Resurrection, when the stone had rolled away, and the Roman soldiers had fled. It was already quiet when the women arrived and discovered the open and empty tomb.
"Literally" three days and three nights is actually three days and three nights. The day of preparation was for the holy day that fell on Thursday.
I have read and studied the Bible since 1966, and I know what it actually says.
But Sunday began at Sunset (Saturday) in the Hebrew Calender
https://greatawakening.win/p/1ASZD1GzIn/x/c/4eaW41hcBVg
Among us who have been reading and studying the Bible about that long and know what it actually says, let's be cautious. There are many more verses about literally "on the third day" than about three days and three nights. The verses about the spices don't say exactly what you said, and no text calls the rest day a "Sabbath", nor its prior day a "Preparation Day". I'd be happy to negotiate details with you.
"I have read and studied the Bible since 1966, and I know what it actually says."
Really? So surely you know of Esther 4:16 saying that she will spend "three days and nights without food or drink" and then appear to the king? Only for Esther 5:1 to say that "the third day came" and she appeared to the king? If "three days and three nights" LITERALLY MEANT A 72 HOUR PERIOD, then Esther wouldn't have seen the king until the fourth day.
1 Samuel 30:12-13 says the Egyptian hadn't had water for "three days and three nights". But you can't live for four days without water. Not only that, but the Egyptian then says "three days ago" his master abandoned him. If he had been out there for "three days and three nights" then he would have said that he was abandoned four days ago.
Paul says in 1 Corinthians 15:4 that Christ "rose again on the third day". Not the FOURTH DAY, the third day. "Three days and three nights" is a Hebrew idiom meaning "about three days". It doesn't literally mean 72 hours. I don't really care how long you claim to have studied the Bible if you don't understand how Hebrew poetry and expressions work. There are a slew of Hebrew expressions in the Bible that if translated literally make no sense. When king Saul went into the cave to "cover his feet" did he literally cover his feet? Or was he relieving himself like that expression actually means in Hebrew slang?
It's the third day following, not including today. That's how it's always been understood.
How could it be that the women bought spices after the Sabbath (Saturday), yet were able to show up at the tomb "while it was yet dark" early Sunday morning? I don't think they could have bought spices in the middle of the night.
The actual words of the Bible matter. Jesus said that the only proof that He was the Messiah was that He would be in the earth for three days and three nights, just the same as Jonah was in the belly of the great fish for three days and three nights. It was stated as literal fact.
That fourth day you speak of is just a modern convention, mostly used to explain away the lie of the Catholic church about "Good Friday." They emphasize Jesus' death, not His Resurrection. The "third day" and "four days ago" didn't mean then what you think it means today. What matters is what the original Hebrew and Greek says, which the KJV is most accurate at translating.
There were 2 holy days that week. First day of unleavened bread was Friday and the Saturday Sabbath. The day of preparation would have been Thursday for both holy days.
Please go and read the Bible if the days were consecutive then there would be no possibility of the women buying and preparing spices. The CHURCH has lied to us for nigh on 2000 years.
Jesus was crucified on Wednesday, the last supper was Tuesday evening, on the Wednesday evening the Passover Meal is eaten - Gods days - check the wording in Genesis 1 - fun from sundown to sundown. If you read the gospels you will see the Priests did not want to enter to Pilate palace for fear of defiling themselves and thus could not eat the Passover meal that evening.
Jesus was placed into the tomb as the High Sabbath was beginning and remained until the end of the weekly Sabbath three days and three nights 72 hours later exactly as Jesus told the Pharisees who were demanding a sign from Him - so if He wasn't there 72 hours he lied and that would have immediately nullify what He achieved on the cross, in which case our salvation just evaporated.
I belie He was crucified on a Wednesday also but it has no bearing on our salvation.
https://greatawakening.win/p/1ASZD1GzIn/x/c/4eaW41hcBVg
u/photobuf is correct that there were two holy days. Fri 14 Nisan could be called the First of Matzah and Sat 15 Nisan was Sabbath. But Fri was preparation day for the Sabbath, and 14 Nisan had no "preparation day" other than preparing the lambs on 10 Nisan. There were no "two Sabbaths" that week in any text, and the spices argument doesn't work from the actual text.
The Passover was eaten 14 Nisan in any reading. What happened is that Jesus celebrated at the beginning, after sundown, and the Pharisees celebrated at the end, before sundown and into 15 Nisan.
15 Nisan was not a "High Sabbath" in itself as that wasn't used for something other than weekly Sabbath. It was high because that year it was both Sabbath and a miqra rest day (Lev. 23).
Jesus didn't say 72 hours, he used an idiom that meant parts of three days, and he also said "on the third day" many more times and ways and the Wed people don't take him literally about that.
I'd be happy to negotiate details with you. In particular, I agree that the church is mistaken about 1st-day "Sabbath" and "Palm Sunday" being Biblical terms. But these oversights were permitted for other reasons, they shouldn't cause us to throw out Firstfruits on the first day in Lev. 23:11.
The Jews had 2 calendars they used and I do know which one they were using when they were writing the NT but since the Bible states the Passover is always on the 14th day of the First Month of the Holy calendar, I would suppose for it to be a Wednesday crucifixion the were using the national calendar. Who knows?
The mathematics behind this happening is more rare than the frequency of three of the 7 visible planets aligning in the sky.
And you know math!
I have mastered math. I look at everything mathematically.
I wish that I had your mathematical brain! ✨🧠
It’s a blessing and a curse.
Your talent is a blessing! Imagine me being in all Accelerated & Gifted Classes required to take Algebra twice! Kek! 😸
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I have no idea what the the frequency of three planets it but I had Chatgpt work it out and the answer was just 27 times since the AD30
Still rare, but not as rare as the trifecta that occurs this year.
BIBLICAL.✨🙌
Exactly!
That gave me chills.
Ironical.
I noticed the full moon too. Everyone commented on it. It was extremely large and bright in the Pacific Northwest.
Actually no. Keep in mind that the solution to the "two-Passover" tension of the Gospels is that Pharisee Passover is the beginning of the 15th of the moon (Wed 1 Apr 2026) and Quartodeciman Passover is the beginning of the 14th (Tue 31 Mar). Evidence is that Jesus partook the earlier date and was crucified as the lambs were slain for the later date. But best evidence is that in 33 he partook and died on 14 Nisan (Thu-Fri 2-3 Apr Julian).
So, first, Rabbinical (Pharisee) Passover (1 Apr) is not Catholic Last Supper (31 Mar by the moon, but remembered on Holy Thu 2 Apr).
Second, if one believes in a Wed Last Supper, one would believe in a Thu crucifixion, which has fewer proponents than either Wed or Fri crucifixion. If, however, one recognizes that Rabbinical Seder corresponds to the crucifixion, Wed Seder would mean a Wed crucifixion (I have explained elsewhere some of the flaws with this approach). These are believed by some but I'm sticking with Fri crucifixion for this math.
Next, it's not a "triple" alignment because the full moon is always aligned to Pesach and 15 Nisan. I suppose if we ran astronomical calculations for the exact instant of the "fullest" moon by some definition, we'd narrow down more dates but it probably wouldn't be significant.
A quick consult of when 15 Nisan (full moon) aligns with Holy Wed-Thu (sunset to sunset) shows that as recently as 2023, the day of 15 Nisan, the full moon, and Holy Thu all fell on Apr 6; in 2020 they all fell on Apr 9. Alignment is irregular.
But for the reasons above, in 33 the alignment was 14 Nisan with Good Friday, not 15 Nisan with Holy Thursday. This alignment is also common and happened on Apr 15, 2022, for instance.
At the same time there is an interesting coincidence this year, namely the Gregorian date of Good Friday 2026 (3 Apr) is the same as the Julian date in 33. This is rarer but still happens a few times per century.
For the coincidence to be more interesting, it would be fun to align the Gregorian, the original Julian, and the 14 Nisan all at the same time (find a Catholic Good Friday 3 Apr Gregorian that is also 14 Nisan). This looks like only once in the past century, 2015. (It would be less useful IMHO to align the modern Julian with the original Julian and 14 Nisan because the Julian lapses against the sun's position so isn't that a match anymore, even though the Orthodox have not come to consent to change it yet. Since the Orthodox often delay Good Friday beyond the Catholic calculation even without referring to the Julian, the last time we had this synchronicity appears to be the 11th century: Catholic/Orthodox Good Friday 3 Apr Julian (full moon 14 Nisan Hillel) in 1075 is all the same as in 33; this would have been more common before that, though.)
So in all interpretations of the goal of OP, I don't find a date coincidence that hasn't happened since 33. Sorry!
Matthew 12:39-40 says:
Jesus replied, “A wicked and adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."
I have never in my 70+ years heard a preacher mention these two verses.
So Jesus Himself states in plain language that the only proof He would give that He was the Messiah was the "three days and three nights."
Yet another lie from the Pope about "Good Friday." Friday was merely the day between sabbaths when the women were able to buy the spices they took to the empty tomb on Sunday morning "while it was yet dark." One New Testament book says they bought spices after a sabbath, and another said they bought them before a sabbath. This is the only way it could occur.
Jesus was crucified on Wednesday, buried just before sunset, and then He arose on Saturday evening just after sunset, at the end of the Sabbath. The empty tomb wasn't found until Sunday morning. This is the timeline in the Bible.
I have read and studied since 1966.
I preached it several times and many more in Bible Study - I apologise that you were not taught this - a great failing but the problem is the church decided very early on 'Good Friday' and have never had the guts to change it.