By EAEC
It is necessary to examine the following facts in order to understand the relationship between the Jewish Passover and the Christian Easter celebration.
Using the Bible as a timeline, we can know exactly what transpired during the Passover Week leading up to Jesus’ death and resurrection. If you want to know the particulars of the week leading up to the crucifixion, please see the scripture citations of the Passover week timeline.
THE JEWISH CALENDAR
The Jewish calendar is tied to the moon and follows the lunar cycles. A Jewish year consists of 12 months, and because it is based on the circling of the moon, a Jewish year has 354 days with 29 or 30 days in each month. Compare this with the Roman calendar we use today that follows solar cycles of 365 days.
A Jewish day begins and ends at 6:00pm but they begin counting the daylight hours from 6:00am. Evidence of this can be found in the four gospels by searching for “third hour,” “sixth hour” and “ninth hour.” A day in the Roman calendar begins and ends at midnight.
Jews who are members of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement have gone to the extreme and the hours of each day have to be calculated. For example, if sunrise is at 5:00am and sunset is at 7:30pm, they will divide the 14 hours and 30 minutes of daylight (870 minutes) by 12 so that an hour that day will be 72.5 minutes long. Thus, if they are going to observe a special ritual at the 2nd hour, it will occur at 8:37am and thirty seconds.
Here is a glimpse of what time was like in the first century when the gospel accounts of Jesus’ death and resurrection were recorded.
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