At what hour was Jesus Crucified?

by gumby 45 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  Narkissos

  John 18:28:

  Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to Pilate's headquarters. It was early in the morning. They themselves did not enter the headquarters, so as to avoid ritual defilement and to be able to eat the Passover.

  "Eating the Passover" is what Jesus and his disciples had done the night before according to the Synoptics.

  John 19:14

  Now it was the day of Preparation for (lit. of) the Passover; and it was about noon. He said to the Jews, "Here is your King!"

  V. 31ff:

  Since it was the day of Preparation, the Jews did not want the bodies left on the cross during the sabbath, especially because that sabbath was a day of great solemnity (lit. this sabbath day was a great one). So they asked Pilate to have the legs of the crucified men broken and the bodies removed. Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who had been crucified with him. But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. Instead, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once blood and water came out. (He who saw this has testified so that you also may believe. His testimony is true, and he knows that he tells the truth.) These things occurred so that the scripture might be fulfilled, "None of his bones shall be broken."

  Here's John's agenda becomes quite clear: Jesus is the Passover lamb (cf. 1:29, compare Exodus 12:46), whence the time of his death, just before the actual beginning of the festival, which started with the Passover meal. All of this builds on Mark's earlier version of Jesus' strangely quick death (15:44ff).
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  gumby

  Yeah.....what Nark said! I was gonna say all that stuff, but he beat me to it. Yeah, that's it.

  Gumby
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  Poztate

  Oh, and I was deeply offended by your earlier comment. I have edited the offending words, so as not to exacerbate your wrongdoing:

  Pole.....jesus wan't in the army ya kn*cklehead! Sh***sh!

  My cousin was a kn*cklehead, and he was a fine man. What if his widow should happen to read this board? And, as everyone knows, sh***sh is a thinly disguised euphamism for shit.

  Guards!

  And I was offended about your being offended about Gumby being offenended at being offence in his posts.

  JUST KIDDING Yeah I know you are kidding.
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  Carmel

  ozzie, actually His life was more important than His death.

  carmel
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  gumby

  ozzie, actually His life was more important than His death.

  carmel

  How the heck ya figure Carmel. If he never died, we woulda never been free ya big knuklehead! Gumby
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  JosephMalik

  At appproximately 9PM on Nisan 20 which was a day of preparation for the final Sabbath of Passover.

  Passover began on Nisan 15 and ended on Nisan 21.

  Month of the Last Passover NISAN of the year our Lord died.

  SUN MON TUE WED THURS FRI SAT
  1*
  2 3 4 5 6 7 8*
  9 10 11 12 13 14 15*
  16 17 18 19 20 21* 22*
  23 24 25 26 27 28 29*
  30

  Sabbath days during this special month are marked with a *. Notice that Nisan 21 and 22 are both Sabbath days as the festival and Exodus chapter 12 (the LAW) forced this situation. A day of preparation preceded each Sabbath day. Hope the formatting holds in this illustration.

  Joseph
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  LittleToe

  Joseph:Where do you get 9pm from?
  Their clocks ran from 6am/6pm, not Midnight/Noon.
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  JosephMalik

  Little Toe,

  6PM plus the third hour = 9PM. This was covered but you must have missed it. Also the guards gambled over His clothes. Not likely to have taken place at 9 or 10AM is it? So our Lord lived through the night on this day of preparation until the next day when He died around 3PM. The two Sabbath days that followed should have alerted everyone to when this happened. This is all very simple and uncomplicated. Why so many have failed to understand it is the real mystery.

  Joseph
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  orangefatcat

  hope this adds to everyones info.

  Insight : volume two : page583

  "Preparation." At John 19:14, the apostle John, in the midst of his description of the final part of Jesus? trial before Pilate, says: "Now it was preparation of the passover; it was about the sixth hour [of the daytime, between 11:00 a.m. and noon]." This, of course, was after the time of the Passover meal, which had been eaten the night before. Similar expressions are found at verses 31 and 42. Here the Greek word pa·ra·skeu·e´ is translated "preparation." This word seems to mark, not the day preceding Nisan 14, but the day preceding the weekly Sabbath, which, in this instance, was "a great one," namely, not only a Sabbath by virtue of being Nisan 15, the first day of the actual Festival of Unfermented Cakes, but also a weekly Sabbath. This is understandable, since, as already stated, "Passover" was sometimes used to refer to the entire festival.?Joh 19:31; see PREPARATION.

  Insight book volume 1 page 1153

  The synoptic Gospels clearly indicate that by the sixth hour, or 12 noon, Jesus had already been hanging on the stake long enough for the soldiers to cast lots over his garments and for the chief priests, the scribes, the soldiers, and other passersby to speak abusively of him. They also indicate that about 3:00 p.m. Jesus expired. (Mt 27:38-45; Mr 15:24-33; Lu 23:32-44) The truly important thing to remember is that Jesus died for our sins on Nisan 14, 33 C.E.?Mt 27:46-50; Mr 15:34-37; Lu 23:44-46.

  Love Orangefatcat..
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  marsal

  Gumby,

  According to the Encyplopedia of Bible Difficulties, page 364: "Most probably John was using the Roman measurement of time when dealing with the crucifixion. Matthew, Mark and Luke used the Hebrew system (from sunup to sundown). The Roman system was from midnight to midnight. John wrote his gospel in Ephesus, the capital of the Roman province of Asia and therefore, John would likely use the Roman reckoning."