Was it Friday?

If you rely on your calculations to believe the crucifixion happened then by all means keep on.

I'd rather see somebody think Jesus died on Monday than have them lose their faith.

But you should consider that if witnessing to a traditional Jew your insistence could be a stumbling block as they would understand why your calculations do not work.

Tge reason is if the Jewish person believe Exodus, Numbers, and Leviticus correct then they cannot believe that Jesus was crucified on 15 Nisan. They would also be familiar to the timing the Passover was killed .

 

Problem is that YOU, not Mark, claim that the verse occurred after sundown on Nisan 14. Mark simply marks the event and day (the eve of Passover).


You would also deny that my family has a Christmas eve meal because we eat early. Not everybody is as legalistic in their speech (Luke certainly wasnt).

You claim Luke wrote an error into the Bible by equating Passover with rhe Feast. But the fact is this was common (the Passover essentially "kicked off" the Feast....really the day prior did).


Mu issue is that to a certain your timeline I have to reject not only what we know of Jewish history but several passages of Scripture.

I cannot do this, especially when Mark's timeline is only an issue when we apply your understanding to it.

 

Yes, and that is interesting (do you know why?).

Things changed with the destruction of the Temple.

One Jewish man explained to me that they cannot a observe the Passover since the sacrifice cannot be done. They use Passover week.

A professor explained it this way - Judaism is a post-70 AD religion as the Hebrew religion was centered around the Temple. Where the priests and Sanhedrin determined things in the Hebrew religion, rabbis do so in Judaism.

This was a divide at the time (Pharisees who saw the Law as belonging to the people, Sadducces as belonging to the Temple.


Today Jews go to a grocery store and buy meat. There is no actual passover (the sacrifice).


This goes to what I said earlier. We can't look to Exodus to explain Mark's narrative. We have to look at how these things were done in the 1st Century.