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This is the first book to describe and analyze, sequentially and in detail, all the persons, places, times, and events mentioned in the Gospel accounts of Jesus’s last week in Jerusalem. Part reference guide, part theological exploration, Eckhard Schnabel’s Jesus in Jerusalem uses the biblical text and recent archaeological evidence to find meaning in Jesus’s final days on earth. Schnabel...

According to John 12:1, it was “six days before the Passover” when Jesus arrived in Bethany and attended the dinner given in his honor (John 12:2).23 Since the first High Festival Day of Passover (Nisan 15) was on a Saturday (Sabbath) in this particular year, according to the official calendar, Jesus’ dinner in Bethany took place on Nisan 9 of the previous week, presumably Saturday evening after sunset on April 2, AD 30.24 Sunset in Jerusalem in early April
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