The Year of the Crucifixion of Jesus

Determining the Year of the Crucifixion of Jesus

Regarding the following Time Tables

* All dates corresponding to March and April are expressed using the Gregorian calendar that we use today even though it was not in effect then.

* "New Moon" refers to the New Moon manifested in the period between 4 days before the Equinox and 24 days after.

* The theoretical Nisan means the one that takes place 14 days after the New Moon, if we count as "day one" the day following the New Moon.

* The "Difference 18AV - 14NS" means the days between the 18th day of Aviv and the 14th day of the theoretical Nisan. The alternative 1st of Aviv in Table 2 is the one which results when we delay by seven days the 1st of Aviv shown in Table 1 (for the days when the Equinox falls on Tuesday or a Wednesday)

We must keep in mind that, considering the limited scientific means at the time of the birth of Jesus, the exact moment of the Equinox could not be ascertained with hour and minutes precision. That is why we have considered an "alternative" 1st of Aviv which is reflected in Table 2 for some of the years. This gives credibility to the possibility of an alternative Crucifixion date of 29 D.C.

Table 1 Comparing 18 Aviv with 14 Nisan in the years 22 to 38 d.C.

Year (dC)	Equinox	1 Aviv (wednesday)	14 Aviv (tuesday)	18 Aviv (saturday)	New Moon	14 Nisán theoric	Difference 18AV - 14NS
22	20/march, sunday	23/march	05/march	09/april	19/march	02/april	7
23	21/march, tuesday	22/march	04/march	08/april	06/april	20/april	-12
24	20/march, wednesday	20/march	02/march	06/april	26/march	09/april	-3
25	20/march, thursday	26/march	08/march	12/april	16/march	30/march	13
26	20/march, friday	25/march	07/march	11/april	04/april	18/april	-7
27	21/march, sunday	24/march	06/march	10/april	24/march	07/april	3
28	20/march, monday	22/march	04/march	08/april	11/april	25/april	-17
29	20/march, tuesday	21/march	03/march	07/april	31/march	14/april	-7
30	20/march, wednesday	20/march	02/march	06/april	20/march	03/april	3
31	21/march, friday	26/march	08/march	12/april	08/april	22/april	-10
32	20/march, saturday	24/march	06/march	10/april	27/march	10/april	0
33	20/march, sunday	23/march	05/march	09/april	17/march	31/march	9
34	20/march, monday	22/march	04/march	08/april	05/april	19/april	-11
35	21/march, wednesday	21/march	03/march	07/april	26/march	09/april	-2
36	20/march, thursday	26/march	08/march	12/april	13/april	27/april	-15
37	20/march, friday	25/march	07/march	11/april	02/april	16/april	-5
38	20/march, saturday	24/march	06/march	10/april	22/march	05/april	5

Table 2. Alternative dates for Aviv in the years when the Equinox falls on Tuesday or Wednesday

Year (dC)	Equinox	1 Aviv (wednesday)	14 Aviv (tuesday)	18 Aviv (saturday)	New Moon	14 Nisán theoric	Difference 18AV - 14NS
23	21/march, tuesday	29/march	11/march	15/april	06/april	20/april	-5
24	20/march, wednesday	27/march	09/march	13/april	26/march	09/april	4
29	20/march, tuesday	28/march	10/march	14/april	31/march	14/april	0
30	20/march, wednesday	27/march	09/march	13/april	20/march	03/april	10
35	21/march, wednesday	28/march	10/march	14/april	26/march	09/april	5

For readers who may be more interested in greater detail, we have prepared a diagram which gives a panoramic view of the relationship between the Spring Equinox and the New Moon between the years 22 and 38 D.C. (1)

(1) Diagram for the years 22 to 38 a.C. (with dates expressed using the Gregorian calendar).