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Find out the day of Passover meal, Crucifixion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus the Messiah

To plot the timeline of events from the day of Passover to the day Jesus the Messiah was raised to life, the day Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread begins should be known.


Passover
An account of the LORD's Passover is given in the book of Exodus 12. The LORD gives instructions to Moses and Aaron how to celebrate it:

Exodus 12:2
This is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year.

Passover begins when the lamb is slaughtered at twilight on the 14th day of Aviv just before the 15th day begins. Exodus 12:6

In Scriptures, a new day begins after sunset in the evening.

Festival of Unleavened Bread
On the 15th day, Festival of Unleavened Bread begins; that night, the lamb is roasted over the fire and eaten with unleavened bread. Exodus 12:8. This meal is also called the Passover meal.

Exodus 12:14
This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the LORD--a lasting ordinance.

The festival of Unleavened Bread lasts for 7 days, starting on the evening of 14th day of first month and ends on the 21st day of first month.
Evening of 14th day to Evening of 15th day is 1st day.
Evening of 15th day to Evening of 16th day is 2nd day.
Thus, Evening of 20th day to Evening of 21st day is 7th day of the Festival.
Exodus 12:17,18
Exodus 34:18

To summarize:

14th Aviv: Passover begins at twilight just before the 15th day begins

Lev. 23:5; Num. 28:16; Exo. 12:6


15th Aviv: Festival of Unleavened Bread begins. 

At night, on the 15th day, the Passover lamb is eaten with unleavened bread and bitter herbs: Passover meal.

Lev. 23:6; Num. 28:16; Exo. 12:17


Days of the week
The Hebrew names of the days are not mentioned in Scriptures. 

Sabbath day
The 7th day of the week is Sabbath Day. The Sabbath day starts in the evening of the 6th day of the week and ends in the evening of the 7th day of the week.

It is a holy day because by the seventh day, God created everything in the heavens and the earth. He rested on the seventh day, blessed it and made it holy.
Genesis 2:1-3

Exodus 34:21
Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.

Timeline of events from the day of Passover to the day Jesus the Messiah was raised to life
On the 14th day of Aviv, Jesus knew that the time was near, the hour had come for him to leave the world and go to His Father. He instructed His diciples to go to a certain man's house so that He could eat the Passover meal with them. 
Matthew 26:18, John 13:1
Jesus and his disciples had the Passover meal in the evening of 14th, when the 15th day of Aviv began.
Matthew 26:17-30
Mark 14:12-26
Luke 22:7-38
John 13:1-38
John 14 – John 16 gives a detailed account of what Jesus told His disciples before He was arrested. John 17 is an account of Jesus' prayer to be glorified and His prayer for His disciples and all the believers.
John 17
1
After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed:
“Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you.
2
For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him.
3
Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
4
I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do.
5
And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.
After the Passover meal, Jesus went to the Garden of Gethsemane near the Mount of Olives with his disciples and prayed.
Matthew 26:30-46
Mark 14:26-42
Luke 22:39-46
John 18:1
After praying, Jesus was arrested, taken to the high priest, Caiaphas, and questioned before the Sanhedrin.
Matthew 26:47-67
Mark 14:43-65
Luke 22:47-71
John 18:2-24
Before the Sanhedrin, Jesus declared that they will see the Son of Man at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming in the clouds of heaven.

Matthew 26:63–64, Mark 14:61,62, Luke 22:67–69
The high priest said to him,
“I charge you under oath by the living God: Tell us if you are the Messiah, the Son of God.”
64
“You have said so,” Jesus replied. “But I say to all of you: From now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.”
Psalm 110:1
The LORD said to my Lord:
“Sit at My right hand
until I make Your enemies
a footstool for Your feet.
Daniel 7:13
In my vision in the night I continued to watch,
and I saw One like a Son of Man
coming with the clouds of heaven.Early morning, next day, 15th of Aviv, Jesus was handed over to Pilate, the Roman governor, by the Sanhedrin for crucifixion.

Matthew 27:1-44
Mark 15:1-24
Luke 23:1-33
John 18:1-40,John 19:1-20
At nine in the morning of the 15th day of the month, Aviv, Jesus was crucified.
Mark 15:25
At three in the afternoon on the 15th day of the month, Aviv, Jesus died.
Matthew 27:45-50
Mark 15:33-37
Luke 23:44-46
John 19:30
15th day of the month, Aviv, was Preparation Day i.e. day before Sabbath. The English to Greek translation of the words "Preparation" and "Friday" are the same—Παρασκευὴ (Paraskeuē).
In the greek language, the 6th day of the week is Παρασκευὴ (Paraskeuē). Therefore, the 4 gospels explicitly state that Jesus the Messiah died on the 6th day of the week.
Sabbath would have begun in the evening of 15th day of the month, Aviv, and ended in the evening of 16th day of the month, Aviv.
So, 15th was 6th day of the week and 16th was 7th day of the week that year.
On the 15th of the month, Aviv, before evening, Joseph, a rich man from Arimathea, a prominent member of the Council, places Jesus' body in a tomb in accordance with Jewish burial customs.
Matthew 27:57-66
Mark 15:42-47
Luke 23:50-54
John 19:31-42
The body of Jesus was in the tomb on the Sabbath day, 16th day of the month, Aviv, on the 7th day of the week, that year.
On the 17th day of the month, Aviv, the day after Sabbath, on the 1st day of the week, that year, Jesus was resurrected.
Matthew 28:1-7
Mark 15:1-7
Luke 24:1-7
John 20
To summarize, in the year Jesus was resurrected,
14th Aviv - Passover - 5th day of the week:
  • Jesus knew the hour had come for Him to leave the world and go to His Father.
  • Jesus asks His disciples to prepare for the Passover
  • Passover begins at twilight
15th Aviv - Preparation Day - 6th day of the week:
  • Passover meal of Jesus and His disciples on the first day of Festival of Unleavened Bread
  • Jesus prays in the Garden of Gethsemane near the Mount of Olives.
  • Jesus arrested and questioned before Sanhedrin.
  • Jesus handed over to Pilate by the Sanhedrin.
  • Jesus crucified, died and placed in the tomb.
16th Aviv - Sabbath Day - 7th day of the week:
  • The body of Jesus in the tomb.
17th Aviv - 1st day of the week:
  • Jesus the Messiah raised to life by Yahweh.
Sign of Jonah
Jonah was in the belly of a fish for three days and three nights. Jonah 1:17
From the inside of the belly of the fish, Jonah prayed to the LORD his God: Jonah 2:1
Heart of the earth should not be mistaken for death alone; the day Jesus knew the hour had come for Him to leave the world and go to His Father is the first day of the Sign of Jonah, and Jesus praying in the Garden of Gethsemane, and His arrest on the night of 15th is the first night of the sign of Jonah.
John 13:1
It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
Matthew 26:38
Mark 14:34
My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death," he said to them. "Stay here and keep watch."
Matthew 12:40
For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.


Passover
14th Aviv
5th day of the week
 
Preparation Day
15th Aviv 
6th day of the week

Sabbath Day
16th Aviv
7th day of the week


17th Aviv
1st day of the week

Sign of Jonah
Day 1
Night 1, Day 2
Night 2, Day 3
Night 3
Rising from the dead on the third day
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Jesus rose from the dead on the third day, according to Scriptures.
Luke 24
44
He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms."
45
Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.
46
He told them, "This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,
47
and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.

Acts 3:21
whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.


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