The Missing Passover

[Ben Masada]

The Missing Passover

We are starting Passover here in Israel. But since the wheels of the Truth cannot stop rolling, I want to bring to your attention the Passover of the year 30 CE. It was supposed to be the last one that Jesus would partake of, and he missed it.

According to John 19:31, that Sabbath was a solemn Sabbath, which is what we call in Hebrew a Shabbaton. That's when a festival falls on the Sabbath. The KJV brings: "For that Sabbath day was a high day."

That Sabbath was the 14th of the month of Nissan; the first day of Passover. The beginning of it is celebrated with the Passover Supper at the evening of the previous day, Friday on that year. That's what we call the Seder Meal.

In the year 30 CE, the Passover Supper was held on the evening of that Friday. No wonder, everyone somehow connected with the events taking place on the Calvary that day, had to leave it in a hurry to prepare themselves and their houses for the Passover Supper.

Jesus missed that Passover Supper because he was on the cross, and soon afterwards, in the tomb. But then again, how to understand that he celebrated his Passover Supper on the evening of Thursday, which was the 13th of Nissan? He didn't. In Israel, no Jew would celebrate Passover in a different day alone or in a small group when everyone else would be doing it next day.

This discrepancy is perhaps due to the fact that the gospel writer, writing somehwere in the world, and realizing that the Jews in the Diaspora would celebrate every festival in two days, thought he could have Jesus celebrate the Passover Supper on the 13 of Nissan. It would have worked if Jesus was a Diaspora Jew; but in Israel there is no such a thing.

There is an option in Judaism to celebrate the Passover later, even a month later, if the person was not for some reason ready for it; but NEVER before. It means that, definitely, Jesus missed that Passover celebration, because his reported "Last Supper" did not have anything to do with the Passover Supper.

The gospel writer had either no idea what he was writing about or simply thought we would never find out about his blunder.

Ben

[Ben Masada]

Your point is to know what day he was crucified. I am telling you with certainty: Friday. (Mat. 27:62; John 19:31).

John 19:31: Then the Jews, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

What evidence do you have that this day of preparation was the day before the seventh day of the week Sabbath? There are those who claim that this high day was one of the Sabbaths observed not on the seventh day of the week. cf Lev 23:32

Because I am Jewish, and I know that the 6th day of the week is known among us for thousands of years as THE day of preparation, because of the Sabbath next day. Every one is supposed to prepare him or herself for any festival, but the day is not like Friday known as THE day of prepararion per se.

[Ben Masada]

Ben Masada I gave the evidence I have. If you disagree with that, that is your choice.

Not good enough my friend. You have got to do much better than that for a sage.

[Ben Masada]

Jesus was born in the year 4 BCE. He was 30 years old in the year 27 CE when he started his ministry immediately after he got married to Mary Magdalene in Cana of Galilee. He was 33 years old when he was crucified in the year 30 CE. The 14th of Nisan on that year fell on the evening of Friday. Because that 14th of Nisan was a Sabbath, the fourth gospel calls it a solemn or high Sabbath. We call it Shabbaton, because of the coincidence of being Sabbath and festival of Passover at the same time.

You speak as if you are sure of your facts, yet you provide no support. Your chronology does fit, but your facts still appear to be just opinions.

A la Joey

1. Jesus was born in the year 4 BCE.
2. He started his ministry in the year 27 CE
3. He married Mary Magdalene in Cana of Galilee.
4. He was crucified in the year 30 CE.

Well, and what do you have to say to refute this? If you don't, at least check the Catholic Encyclopedia. [/b]

Why, we have the Gospel of Luke to refute that.

Luke has Jesus being born during the census that happened when Quintarsis became the govenor of Syria.
That was 6 c.e.

That census might have been in Syria and anywhere else but perhaps not in Israel. The Romans knew much better than to look for trouble with a census in Israel, that keg powder of a Roman killer.