Timing Of Christ'S Arrest And Final Supper

[Duncan]

So, as I see it Christ had his last supper on thursday night and then after that was over he went to the garden of gethsemane and after that was arrested and then was taken to a variety of people, Annas, Caiaphas, Pilate, Herod et al to be judged and then was nailed to the cross at like 9am on friday morning. Where was the time to do all these trials and his appearance before Pilate and Pilate asks him what is truth and the people want to crucify him? Did all that happen in the middle of thursday night and very, very early morning?

[blackstrap]

Talmage indicates that the night trial by the Jewish leaders was illegal. As a separate note,try to find the 3 days that Christ lay in the tomb. He compares it to the 3 days Jonah spent in the whale.

[erichard]

So, as I see it Christ had his last supper on Thursday night and then after that was over he went to the garden of Gethsemane and after that was arrested and then was taken to a variety of people, Annas, Caiaphas, Pilate, Herod et al to be judged and then was nailed to the cross at like 9am on friday morning. Where was the time to do all these trials and his appearance before Pilate and Pilate asks him what is truth and the people want to crucify him? Did all that happen in the middle of thursday night and very, very early morning?

Hi Duncan,

I do not trust the traditional Catholic version of the passion week timeline. But I am not completely sure what the truth is. I am sure it will eventually be revealed in detail when Zion comes.

I tend to believe that Friday was the Passover, and that Christ was Crucified Thursday and taken down and buried before dusk to avoid being on the cross on the Passover-- which is also called a Sabbath. There is another school of thought that believes in a Wednesday crucifixion, but I do not accept it.

Mary waited until Sunday morning to come to the tomb because both Friday and Saturday were Sabbaths. Thus Christ was in the tomb Thursday night, Friday, Friday night, Saturday, Saturday night and part of Sunday. He arose "on the third day", giving me the impression it was not the entire day. So that makes "three days and three nights" like the scriptures say.

That would also mean that the last supper was on Wednesday night. And that all the events leading up to and including the crucifixion took place Wednesday night and Thursday.

Richard

[Duncan]

interesting! It seems like a lot of events jam packed into such a tight time frame, which I guess is possible but how it all happened is something I am wondering about

[LeSellers]

There's a missing day in the week between "Palm Sunday" and the Resurrection if we accept the standard timeline. Christ was no slacker—He worked constantly for the blessing of mankind. It simply makes no sense to say that Wednesday He rested, as so many do to explain that missing day.

A Wednesday Last Supper followed by a Thursday crucifixion make the timeline valid, as far as I can see.

The term "Sabbath" referred to any day of "rest", and especially to those days of the Feasts. The Sabbath we see mentioned in the Gospels before which He was laid in the borrowed tomb could have easily been, and I believe was, the Passover of the southern Jews (Christ, being a Nazarene, would have celebrated it a day earlier because of the differences in their calendars), followed immediately by the normal weekly Sabbath on the next day (Saturday).

I find it interesting when we read of the raising of Lazarus, that He waited three full days before coming to bring His friend (brother-in-law?) back from death, and that He rose on the third day. I believe the parallel is too striking to ignore. He, Himself, reminds us that His time in the tomb was an echo of the sign of Jonah, who stayed three days, and three nights in the belly of the great fish God had prepared. A Friday crucifixion did not give Him those three days, as required by the prophesy.

Lehi

[volgadon]

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<p>The Sabbath we see mentioned in the Gospels before which He was laid in the borrowed tomb could have easily been, and I believe was, the Passover of the southern Jews (Christ, being a Nazarene, would have celebrated it a day earlier because of the differences in their calendars),</p>

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<p>Though different calendars did exist, this solution poses some problems for the timeline, if Jesus was worshipping in Jerusalem.</p>

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[Freedom]

This article gives a strong case for a Friday crucifixion, arguing that the Thursday theory is based solely on one verse, (Matt 12:40) it requires a two-day Sabbath. john 19:14 points out that he was crucified on the preparation of the Sabbath. Although there are varying views among the bretheren as to when Christ was born, I have never read the argument from any church authority, ecclesiastical or academic, that He was crucified on any other day than Friday.

http://lds.org/ensign/1985/06/the-restoration-of-priesthood-keys-on-easter-1836-part-1-dating-the-first-easter?lang=eng&query=date+crucifixion

Of course, each argument has plenty of evidence leaving me to be pretty open minded.