fourth year of the 202nd olympiad
TheActs of the Apostlesrecounts Peters words on Pentecost. The written testimony from outside the Bible confirms some of the main events, people, and places mentioned in the New Testament. No one has ever met a literary device walking down the street or stubbed their toe on one, thus we should not expect that any early Christian would have suffered martyrdom for one. [The word Christ in Hebrew is Messiah.] Christ bore our sins so that if we just turn to God through Christ and humble ourselves and repent we receive Gods forgiveness for all of our sins!! We believe that the event referred to by Phlegon is the same event that is recorded in the New Testament. Donations to this ministry aretax-deductible. However, such an explanation for the Crucifixion darkness is absurd because solar eclipses are counted in minutes, not hours. In Phlegon's Olympiades we are told it happened in the 4th year of the 202nd Olympiad which is AD 33. When they could see the new crescent Moon in the evening (only visible for a short time in the early evening) they would send runners to announce that the new month had begun. (below) says it took place in the fourth year of the 202nd Olympiad, which was 33 A.D. - which can be verified by clicking on the link following Phlegon's quote in red below. An earthquake occurred in Bythinia and overthrew a great part of the city of Nicaea" It would be interesting to model the varying sizes, speeds, and distances required from the earth to account for the period of darkness on that hypothesis. Last month: Next month: new 02:44 32/07/26 UTC : 1: 32-07-26/27: Noumenia : 2: 32-07-27/28: Noumenia kata Selene Agathos Daimon: Herakleia? He was smartly dressed, flamboyant and gregarious. If we know the day of the week that the crucifixion took place on, this can be used to rule out a number of the possible years (in the range from AD 26 to AD 36). Therefore I think we can compare it to another impressive unnatural phenomenon that happened 100 years ago in Fatima, when the sun danced on oct. 13th 1917 at the exact time Our Lady foretold months beforehand, before a huge crowd. Those issues do not change the conclusion for various reasons. 4th year of the 202nd Olympiad. The Formal Correction is on the way! Being written within a dozen years of the Crucifixion, many of Matthews readers would have been witnesses to the three hour darkness which had fallen over the earth (cf Matthew 27: 45) years before. I will follow the work of Cambridge professor Colin Humphreys based on his book, "The Mystery of the Last Supper," published in 2011 [1]. There is only one period of darkness lasting for three hours in the history of the world. The 4th year of the 202nd Olympiad is from July 32 to June 33 CE, which confirms the date of 3 April 33 CE. Passover occurred on either Nisan 14 or 15 about two weeks after the New Moon. It was not until the sixteenth century that the Jewish calendar was formally defined precisely. There are writings from Roman, Jewish, and Christian writers all known as good historians who mention Jesus Christ in some way, often as they write about Christians. There are a variety of opinions on this question. Therefore the year of the crucifixion is A.D 33. [3]. One such quotation is as follows, "In the 4th year of the 202nd Olympiad, there was a great eclipse of the Sun, greater than had ever been known before, for at the sixth hour the day was changed into night, and the stars were seen in the heavens. Thesestatements reveal several key things: 1. In fact, PlinysNatural Historyincludes a chapter entitled Of Unusual Long Eclipses of the Sun. Therefore, it seems atfirst glancethatthe skeptic is on to something when he points out that a three hour long darkness is nowhere to be found in this chapter. Barton, Bill, This webpage quotes John Lightfoot explaining the "onah" concept. I did a search for the years 25 through 35 AD for the nation of Israel. The mention of three nights in this verse has prompted some to propose the crucifixion was on a Wednesday or a Thursday. It corresponds approximately to April in our modern Gregorian calendar. And accurate. Phlegon would have had no way to misreport an actual earthquake that hit in the region, because the region has the history to confirm the account passed to him. If your sunset occurs later than sunset in Athens, the event may occur on . Julius Africanus elsewhere makes the point that what was sometimes referred to as an eclipse of the Sun by Roman writers could not possibly be a solar eclipse because it happened at the wrong time of the month [5]. The 202nd Olympiad has been calculated to run from July AD 29 to June AD 33. He asks for your prayers for his intentions. It also gives a link to download Lightfoot's entire New Testament commentaries in four volumes as free PDF files. What Was Achieved By Jesus At The Crucifixion? The Crucifixion darkness could certainly have been one of these excluded eclipses. However, whether there was or was not a Crucifixion darkness, it can not be proven from Pliny. Check Huffpost. /*