DATING THE HISTORICAL JESUS HAS ALWAYS BEEN A MYSTERY UNTIL NOW. Under The Circumstances This Should Not Have Been Too Difficult Since Much Of The Necessary Information Has Been Available For Centuries. The problem is people have been asking the wrong question at the start of their investigations and thereby arriving at the wrong conclusion as a basis for their continued quest to discover when Jesus was born and when he died.

🔍 1. Herod’s Death – Revised Dating

• Traditional church history places Herod’s death in 4 BC, which pushes Jesus' birth to 6–5 BC.

• But scholars like John Pratt, Murrel Selden, and Ernest L. Martin argue that Herod died in 1 BC, based on lunar eclipse data and Josephus' account that Herod died shortly after a lunar eclipse and before a Passover.

• NASA confirms that a full lunar eclipse occurred on January 10, 1 BC, which fits Josephus’ timeline better than the partial 4 BC eclipse.

• This adjustment places Jesus’ birth probably in the Spring of 2 BC, aligning with the census registration described in Luke 2.

💧 2. Jesus' Baptism – Luke’s Chronology

• Luke 3:1 states that John the Baptist began his ministry in the 15th year of Tiberius Caesar, which corresponds to AD 29.

• Jesus was "about thirty years of age" at His baptism (Luke 3:23), which fits perfectly if He was born around 2 BC.

• This means Jesus’ baptism occurred in AD 29, shortly before the first Passover of His ministry (John 2).

🌕 3. Crucifixion Date – NASA & Biblical Alignment

• The U.S. Naval Observatory confirms that Passover in AD 31 fell on Wednesday, April 25—the only year around that time where:

  • Passover fell on a Wednesday, allowing for a literal fulfillment of “three days and three nights” in the tomb.

  • This aligns with Daniel’s 69 prophetic weeks (483 years) from the decree to rebuild Jerusalem (445 BC) to the Messiah being “cut off.”

• Coinage from Tiberius Caesar’s reign, corroborated by Luke, confirms that Jesus' ministry began in AD 29 and ended with His death in AD 31, giving Him a 2-year ministry, not 3.5 years, which has been fabricated to fit the middle of the seventieth week prophecy.

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🧭 Summary: A Biblically and Historically Grounded Timeline

Event	Date	Supporting Evidence
Jesus’ Birth	2 BC	Herod’s death in 1 BC; Roman census; climate evidence
Jesus’ Baptism	AD 29	Luke 3:1; Tiberian dating; coins from AD 29
Crucifixion	April 25, AD 31 (Wed)	U.S. Naval Observatory data; Daniel 9’s 69 weeks prophecy
Duration of Ministry	~2 years	Only two Passovers explicitly mentioned in Scripture

This historical and prophetic reconstruction challenges the traditional AD 33 crucifixion view and offers a more textually consistent and astronomically verifiable understanding of the timeline of Jesus’ ministry.

1. Sacrifices Were Always Ineffectual (Hebrews 10:4, 10:11):

The book of Hebrews makes it plain that animal sacrifices never took away sins. They were symbolic—a shadow pointing forward to Christ. As you may note, this means that their efficacy did not cease at the crucifixion, because they were never efficacious to begin with.

“It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.” — Hebrews 10:4
“Every priest stands daily… offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.” — Hebrews 10:11

2. The Sacrifices in Daniel 9:27 Refer to Actual Physical Temple Sacrifices:
Daniel 9:27 is not about the theological validity of sacrifice. It is describing a real, observable event: the cessation of daily offerings in the Temple, which clearly continued after the crucifixion and did not cease until the destruction of the Second Temple in AD 70.

This proves the verse isn't referring to Jesus ending the need for sacrifices spiritually, but to a future desecration by a coming “prince” or figure (often understood as Antichrist) who disrupts Temple worship in the middle of the seventieth week.

3. Theological Error of Over-Spiritualization:
By assuming Jesus "caused the sacrifices to cease" at His death, many interpreters spiritualize Daniel 9:27 and overlook the physical, historical continuation of sacrifices for nearly 40 more years. This conflation obscures prophecy and leads to mistaken conclusions—especially among those seeking to shoehorn the seventieth week into the First Century.

Summary:

• The sacrifices were ineffectual from the start.

• Jesus fulfilled the type, but did not abolish the practice.

• Daniel 9:27 speaks of literal, physical sacrifices being interrupted.

• This interruption is prophetic and points to a future desolation, not Christ’s crucifixion.