DID YOU KNOW?
The answer
Disagree. All four Gospels put the crucifixion on the day of Preparation, the day before the Sabbath day of rest (Mark 15:42; Matthew 27:62; Luke 23:54; John 19:31). What moves in John is the meal of the Jewish festival of Passover. In Mark the disciples eat it with Jesus the night before the cross (Mark 14:12-17). In John, Jesus's accusers still have it ahead of them on the morning of the trial (John 18:28).
Why it’s interesting
The Passover lambs were slaughtered before the meal was eaten, so in John Jesus dies while the lambs do. John's Gospel has called him the Lamb of God since John 1:29. John Barton, a historian of the Bible, says that timing has an obvious symbolic meaning.
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