Timeline of the Bible · The Life of Christ
The Resurrection
Event · About AD 31
Passion Week
He Rises from the Dead Saturday, the 17th · The Sabbath · At its end
The Years
- The Year AD 31
- The Crucifixion in AD 31, by Daniel’s seventy weeks. Ussher: AD 33
- “whiles it was yet dark, came Mary Magdalene, and Mary the Mother of James, and Salome”
He rose at the end of the weekly sabbath, three days and three nights after His burial on Wednesday at evening (Matthew 12:40; 28:1), and the women found the sepulchre empty early on the first day of the week, “when it was yet dark” (John 20:1). Ussher dates the women’s coming “(April the fifth)” of AD 33, two days after a Friday crucifixion.
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.
