This article is for all you atheists out there thinking that John and the synoptics conflict on above subject and why and that is your reason to reject God’s word.

Mathew chapter 26 here:

26 When Jesus had finished saying all these things, he said to his disciples, ² “As you know, the Passover is two days away—and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.”

Now to verse 17

¹⁷ On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Where do you want us to make preparations for you to eat the Passover?”

The Crucifixion of Jesus from Matthew 27

³² As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross. ³³ They came to a place called Golgotha (which means “the place of the skull”). ³⁴ There they offered Jesus wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, he refused to drink it. ³⁵ When they had crucified him, they divided up his clothes by casting lots. ³⁶ And sitting down, they kept watch over him there. ³⁷ Above his head they placed the written charge against him: this is jesus, the king of the jews.

Jesus is now dead as evening approached in Mattew 27

⁵⁷ As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus. ⁵⁸ Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus’ body, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him. ⁵⁹ Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, ⁶⁰ and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away. ⁶¹ Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb.

Here is Mark 15

²⁵ It was nine in the morning when they crucified him. ²⁶ The written notice of the charge against him read: the king of the jews.

²⁷ They crucified two rebels with him, one on his right and one on his left. ^{[28] [a] 29} Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, “So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, ³⁰ come down from the cross and save yourself!” ³¹ In the same way the chief priests and the teachers of the law mocked him among themselves. “He saved others,” they said, “but he can’t save himself! ³² Let this Messiah, this king of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe.” Those crucified with him also heaped insults on him.

The Death of Jesus

³³ At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. ³⁴ And at three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”)

Here is Luke 22

The Last Supper

⁷ Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. ⁸ Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover.”

⁹ “Where do you want us to prepare for it?” they asked.

¹⁰ He replied, “As you enter the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him to the house that he enters, ¹¹ and say to the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ ¹² He will show you a large room upstairs, all furnished. Make preparations there.”

¹³ They left and found things just as Jesus had told them. So they prepared the Passover.

It appears here that the last supper was preparation day the 14th of Nisan and so according to Luke Jesus would be crucified at 9am the next day by Roman calendar but still the 14th of Nisan by the Jewish calendar.And Mathew also indicates preparation day which is Nisan 14 and Mark 14 also inicates that the last super was Nisan 14 preparation day

The Last Supper

¹² On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, when it was customary to sacrifice the Passover lamb, Jesus’ disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover?”

here comes the controversy ,John has a differing account they say (the sceptics) on when Jesus died.So now lets look at John. And here is John 19

John 19:31 New International Version

³¹ Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down.

This question is commonly asked:

The Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke) and the Gospel of John appear to disagree on the timing of Jesus’ death in relation to the Passover meal, with the Synoptics placing the Last Supper as part of the Passover celebration while John presents it as occurring before the Passover, leading to a discrepancy in the day Jesus was crucified; this is often referred to as the “Passover chronology problem” in biblical studies.

There is a clear mistake here ,I see and have nowhere that the Bible says Jesus died on passover or nisan 15.People wrongly assumed that if the last supper was preparation day the dat before passover nisan 14 then that meant Jesus died on nisan 15 but this is wrong!

The Jewish calendar is a sundown to sundown calendar.

So if preparation began at the begining of nisan 14 which would be just after sundown on nisan 14 ,a half hour earlier would be nisan 13 you see.

So if the next morning Jesus was arrested and had a short trial and was crucified about 9 in the morning it is still nisan 14 preparation day.

Then Jesus died shortly after at 3 pm which in Jerusalem in spring time the sun is still up.Maybe in Norway or something the sun might be down at 3 pm in early spring.But the Hebrew month nisan is similar to late march or early april in a Gregorian calendar.In Isreal there was daylight at 6pm or 18:00 easy.So it was still nisan 14 when Jesus died then by all four Gospel accounts then.

Let me put this in Gregorian calendar term for simplicity just for example ,if we convert Hebrew to Gregorian it looks like this .The last super about 12:30 am say april 3rd and the crucifixion about 3pm or 15:00 then the death of Jesus about 9:30 pm or 21:30 hours .So even though two Roman days happened less than a day happened in Hebrew time.

So all four Gospels then say Jesus died on preparation day or nisan 14

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