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Three Days and Three Nights: The Chronology of Yeshua’s Death
Establishing the Historical and Halakhic Case for a Wednesday Crucifixion and the 72-Hour Period. The timing of Yeshua's death and resurrection stands as one of the most debated issues in biblical scholarship. Yet when examined through the lens of Second Temple Jewish...
The mishna teaches that a crier goes out before the condemned man. This indicates that it is only before him, i.e., while he is being led to his execution, that yes, the crier goes out, but from the outset, before the accused is convicted, he does not go out. The Gemara raises a difficulty: But isn’t it taught in a baraita: On Passover Eve they hung the corpse of Jesus the Nazarene after they killed him by way of stoning. And a crier went out before him for forty days, publicly proclaiming: Jesus the Nazarene is going out to be stoned because he practiced sorcery, incited people to idol worship, and led the Jewish people astray. Anyone who knows of a reason to acquit him should come forward and teach it on his behalf. And the court did not find a reason to acquit him, and so they stoned him and hung his corpse on Passover eve.
-Sanhedrin.43a.20
We Enter the Final Jubilee Period
Having to rewrite this days in advance of the start of the Final Jubilee period every time something changes, I expected it to pass without notice. Nothing dramatic yet, knowing almost everyone will not even know it has begun like a small highway exit sign that says...
The Biblical Recipe
We all know when you bake a cake that it is important to understand and plan your ingredients in advance. That, small changes to the ratios, quality, and order don't just make additive differences but can make outsized multiplicative differences in the end product...
But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, being shut up to the faith which was later to be revealed. Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. For you are all sons of God through faith in Messiah Yeshua.
-Galatians 3:23-26
The sages say: in Judea they would work on the eve of Passover until noon, whereas in the Galilee they did not work at all.
-Talmud Pesachim 4.6.1
For this reason no supplications are offered on any of the days of Nisan and there is no fasting until Nisan has passed. The only exception is [the fast of] the firstborn (Ta’anit Bekhorot) who fast on the eve of Passover.
-Tractate Soferim 21.3
Elijah the prophet said to Rav Yehuda, brother of Rav Sala Ḥasida: The world will exist no fewer than eighty-five Jubilee cycles, or 4,250 years. And during the final Jubilee, the son of David will come. Rav Yehuda said to Elijah: Will the Messiah come during the beginning of the Jubilee or during its end? Elijah said to Rav Yehuda: I do not know. Rav Yehuda asked: Will this last Jubilee cycle end before the Messiah comes or will it not yet end before his coming? Elijah said to him: I do not know. Rav Ashi says: This is what Elijah said to him: Until that time do not anticipate his coming; from this point forward anticipate his coming. Elijah did not inform Rav Yehuda of the date of the coming of the Messiah.
-Sanhedrin.97b.2