If you want to help people see Holy Week with fresh eyes, start by dropping these familiar fallacies. Published on Christianity Today.
April 3, AD 33: Why We Believe We Can Know the Exact Date Jesus Died
In our new book, The Final Days of Jesus: The Most Important Week of the Most Important Person Who Ever Lived, we assume but do not argue for a precise date of Jesus’s crucifixion. Virtually all scholars believe, for various reasons, that Jesus was crucified in the spring of either AD 30 or AD 33, with the… Read More
Placing the Cross in History
Can we know the exact date of Christ’s death? The Bible’s firsthand accounts give us plenty of historical details that narrow down when it fell within the Roman Empire’s tumultuous early days. Published on Answers Magazine.
Holy Week, Day 8: Sunday
From The Gospel Coalition: Sunday, April 5, AD 33. The following video, filmed in conjunction with our book The Final Days of Jesus, features short explanations from and interviews with New Testament professors Doug Moo and Andreas Köstenberger on the importance of women being the first to discover the empty tomb and the meaning of Easter… Read More
Holy Week, Day 7: Saturday
From The Gospel Coalition: Saturday, April 4, AD 33. The following video, filmed in conjunction with our book The Final Days of Jesus, features short explanations from and interviews with New Testament scholars Andreas Köstenberger and Douglas Moo. Dr. Köstenberger looks at the role of Joseph of Arimathea in Jesus’s burial, the rules for burial at the time,… Read More