Tag: Passover

• Not so good ‘Good Friday’

  Good Friday, in the Gospel accounts, is the day on which Jesus of Nazareth died. What many people don’t know, or don’t care to know, is that in John’s Gospel, he died on the Thursday.  Confusingly for the rest of us, the Jewish day runs from sunset to sunset, so Friday begins on what you […]

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  2nd Apr 2021

  Jesus of Nazareth, New Testament, Religion

  Crucifixion, Culture, Jesus, Passover, Sin, Substitution

• Two Curious Mysteries …

  Most likely in 30 CE, Jesus of Nazareth, we’re told, staged a potentially politically and religiously provocative entry into Jerusalem, accompanied by a band of zealous, loud-voiced followers. He followed that up with an outrageous, table toppling, money scattering ‘demo’ in the Temple, and upped the ante with daily disputes with the religious intelligentsia in […]

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  17th Jan 2021

  Jesus of Nazareth, New Testament, Religion

  Crucifixion, Jerusalem, Jesus, Passover, Rome