Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-04-20
JESUS cRUcIFIED ON wEDNES.
DAY.

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without proving Wednesday cruel
fiction, or contradicting the scrip.
lures: 1t is known fact that "the
feast of unIeavened bread" which
is called the passover" zee Luke
22:1, always came on the fifteenth
day of the first month. Luke 23:c.
This day was called passover"
from the fact that it was during the
night of the fifteenth that the death
angel smote all the first born of
Egypt and passed over all Israel.
The day before the feast was
called 1.-The preparation of the pass
over" because They killed the
passover on the fourteenth day of
the first month" End Chron. 35:l and
prepared IL to be eaten the follow.
ing night. We know Jesus was cru
Gifted on the fourteenth, because
John says ut was the preparation
of the passover" when it occurred
John 1914. We also know that Je-
sus was crucified on the fourteenth.
because it occurred the day before
the passover; Sabbath. which al
ways came on the fifteenth. no mat.
ter what day of the week it hap.
pened to come. See Mum. %, II. Is.
Jesus was buried as this Sabbath
"drew on" 1t is also known fact
that Jesus came from Jericho to
Bethany on Friday, when he at
tended the last passover. John
Gays this occurred "six days before
the passover" John 12:l. This
shows that Friday came six days
before the passover" the year Jesus
was crucified. The facts above
stated give all the necessary ele-
nents of a clear and easy mathe-
unatical problem, az follows:
Jesus came from Jericho to Beth
any on Friday "six days before the
passover. fifteenth. and was cruci-
fed on the fourteenth. What day
of the month did he come to Beth
any, and what day of the week was
he crucified? 1t is evident that If
Jesus came to Bethany "six days
before the passover" he came on
the ninth because six from fifteen
leaves nine. If the ninth was Fri
day then the fourteenth must have
been Wednesday. This seems to
prove that Jesus was crucified on
Wednesday. instead of Friday. or
that he didn't come to Bethany six
days before the passover az John
says. But If Jesus came from Jer-
icho to Bethany on the ninth and
made his triumphal entrance on
1.-The next day" John 1912, it was on
the tenth, and the very day the law
required the lambs to be chosen;
ION the tenth day of this month
they shall take to them every man
a lamb" Elk. 1913. Jesus wac "our
passover" and he was chosen on
the right day. On the eleventh Je-
sus cursed the fig tree; on the
twelfth the disciples saw 1t "wither
away" On the thirteenth Jesus
departed and did hide himself
from them" John 1926. On the
fourteenth he was betrayed and
crucified. This accounts for every
day from Friday, the ninth, till
Wednesday evening, when the pass
over began. 1t makes just six days
and it also puts the choosing of the
lambs on the tenth; the preparation
of the passover on the fourteenth,
and the feast on the fifteenth, just
az the law required. Besides this,
the Messiah was to be "cut off, in
the "midst of the week" Dan. 9:26, "a
and Wednesday is the middle of
the week.
On the foregoing statements II 10
an easy matter to reconcile the
statement found in Matt. 12:4O.
Where the son of man was to be in
the heart of the earth three days
and three nights We can see that
statement gives the Jews their day
without any offense. Their Sab
bath began at shutdown Friday
evening, and Christ rose from the
tomb some time between sunset
and the dawn of day the first of the
week. It makes no difference what
day Christ died for us, bat If the
law and the prophets teach 1t was
to occur on Wednesday and the