The Last Supper
Event · About AD 31
Passion Week
The Last Supper Tuesday, the 13th · Evening
The Years
- The Year AD 31
- The Crucifixion in AD 31, by Daniel’s seventy weeks. Ussher: AD 33
- “I have greatly desired to eat this Passeover with you, before I suffer”
On Tuesday evening, as the fourteenth day of the first month began, “the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover” (Mark 14:12); a day began at evening (Leviticus 23:32). Ussher puts it in AD 33, two days later in the week, on the evening of Thursday, April 2: “IN the first day of unleavened bread, when the Passeover was slain (April 2.)”. The timeline follows the text’s “three days and three nights” (Matthew 12:40), as Difficult Passages answers it.
Where the year isn’t Ussher’s, the text sets it, and the note says how. Ussher’s years and sentences are from his Annals of the World (1658), quoted as printed.
