Jesus Died on 14 Abib (also known as Nisan) 30 AD which was on Wednesday 5 of April 30 AD (Calendar 30 AD).
The year 30 is most likely the year of Jesus dead, due to several reasons:
- Jesus started His Ministry around 26 AD and His ministry was for just over 3+ years.
- We have several writings from the Talmud (Jerusalem Talmud and Babylonian Talmud) that 40 years before the destruction of the temple at 70 AD, all kind of strange things happened around the Temple, pointing to 30 AD as the year.
Jerusalem Talmud:“Forty years before the destruction of the Temple, the western light went out, the crimson thread remained crimson, and the lot for the Lord always came up in the left hand. They would close the gates of the Temple by night and get up in the morning and find them wide open” (Jacob Neusner, The Yerushalmi, p.156-157). [the Temple was destroyed in 70 CE]
Babylonian Talmud states:
“Our rabbis taught: During the last forty years before the destruction of the Temple the lot [‘For the Lord’] did not come up in the right hand; nor did the crimson-colored strap become white; nor did the western most light shine; and the doors of the Hekel [Temple] would open by themselves” (Soncino version, Yoma 39b).
The day we know from several Bible verses combined, pointing to Wednesday as the only logical possibility:
- 14 Abib : In the afternoon the Passover Lamb gets sacrificed, Jesus as our Passover Lamb died also in the afternoon on that day. Jesus got laid to rest in the grave of Joseph of Arimathea (Luke 15:42-43) just before Sunset, the start of the High Sabbath (Joh 19:31 – “…next day was to be a special Sabbath”).
- 16 Abib : The woman bought the spices after the Sabbath (high Sabbath, Mar 16:1) and prepared the spices before the normal Sabbath (Luk 23:56). Only day this can be is on the Friday where Thursday was a High Sabbath (Joh 19:31) and Saturday the normal Sabbath.
- 17 Abib : Jesus rose from the Death on Saturday after Sunset (end of the Sabbath) and the start of the Day of First Fruit, fulfilling the prophesy he gave of the sign of Jonah, 3 days and 3 nights in the heart of the earth (Mat 12:39-40). Jesus defines a day as having 12 hours of day light in John 11:9, so we are talking about 3 x 24 hours = 72 hours in the heart of the earth (from Wednesday Sunset to Saturday Sunset)
- 18 Abib : Jesus presents Himself as First-Fruits to the Father , we know this from the encounter Jesus had, at the grave, with Mary Magdalene. Jesus told her not to hold Him for He had not yet returned to the Father (Joh 20:17). Later on he told Tomas to touch His wounds (Joh 20:27), this indicates that at the moment with Mary He had not yet presented Himself to the Vader as the First-Fruits, while with Tomas he already did.