When is Passover?

[showme]

When is the actual date of the Passover, and the actual date of the Feast of Unleavened Bread? (Numbers 28:16-17)

The traditions of the Jewish Pharisees, and the followers of the "Christian" Pharisee of Pharisees, are not the same as the Word of God.(Numbers 28:16-17) & (Lev 23:5-6). & John 20:31. A "high day" "Sabbath", is not the same as a Sabbath. The 14th of day of the first month was not a high holy day. It was a day when you could put people on the cross, break "their legs" and take the leaven out of the house. The 14th of Nissan, at the time of the crucifixion, was on a Wednesday, the high holy Sabbath, the Feast of the Unleavened Bread, the 15th of Nissan, was on a Thursday, and 3 days and 3 nights later, on the evening of the regular Sabbath, Mary Magdalene found the tomb empty on the dawn of the 1st day of the week, which starts at sundown of the previous day. Between the harlot Judah (Rev 17:16), and the "daughters of Babylon" (Zech 2:7), the "Christian church", the world seems to be going in circles, and truth seems to remain at bay.

King James Bible John 19:31
The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

Numbers 28: 16Then on the fourteenth day of the first month shall be the LORDS Passover. 17 On the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast, unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days. 18On the first day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work

[bluethread]

Bluethread,

I am not participating in the discussion on the correct interpretation of "between the two evenings" or which day of the week Jesus died.

No, I am asking about how you explain Yeshua's Seder being on the evening of the 13th/14th. He did tell His disciples to "prepare the Passover". That would mean that the sacrifice would have had to be done on the 13th.

[JehovahsWitness]

Num 28:16 " 'In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is Adonai's Pesach. so now we need to know when the first month or Jewish New year is, right ?

Biblically the first month of the Jewish year was the month in which there was the earliest spring harvest (barley) about 50 days before the wheat harvest (see Ex 23: 15, 16, 19; Ex 34 22). The Jews held to a lunar calander as indicated by 2 Chron 31:3 which refers to "the new moons" when speaking about "the fixed festivals" so the first day of the first month would begin with the first new moon after the Spring Equinox.

[JehovahsWitness]

Bluethread,

I am not participating in the discussion on the correct interpretation of "between the two evenings" or which day of the week Jesus died.

No, I am asking about how you explain Yeshua's Seder being on the evening of the 13th/14th. He did tell His disciples to "prepare the Passover". That would mean that the sacrifice would have had to be done on the 13th.

I don't care what you are asking me. I'm not interested in discussing that point right now. I'm participating in this thread because it asked when is passover. The answer to the question is Nisan 14. I am addressing you because you made a statement indicating Jehovah's Witnesses are somehow in error in believing Nisan 14 corresponds to the evening of the 31st March.

The passover would fall on Nissan 14 by the Lunar calander. This corresponds to March 31st .

This is not true. At least on the "invitation" I received. Pesach begins before sundown on [March] 30.

Oh, you are asking about the accuracy of the rabbinic calendar? That is the calander I used.

I believe I have made it clear that if you want to celebrate the Passover as Jesus did, you should not be using the modern rabbinic calendar.

I explained why HERE

Why does the modern rabbonic calander not correspond to the biblical one?
http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/v ... 96#p911296

and again HERE

When did the Jewish calander depart from the biblical tradition?
http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/v ... 62#p910962


JW