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Meeting · The Life of JesusAD 30

The Last Supper

Dated from the sources quoted below

True span4004 BC – AD 100
Beginnings · 4004 BC – 1996 BC · 12 eventsBeginnings4004 BC – 1996 BCThe Patriarchs · 1996 BC – 1635 BC · 34 eventsPatriarchs1996 BC – 1635 BCEgypt and the Exodus · 1635 BC – 1451 BC · 19 eventsExodus1635 BC – 1451 BCConquest and Settlement · 1451 BC – 1400 BC · 7 eventsConquest1451 BC – 1400 BCThe Judges · 1405 BC – 1095 BC · 13 eventsJudges1405 BC – 1095 BCThe United Kingdom · 1095 BC – 975 BC · 38 eventsUnited Kgdm1095 BC – 975 BCIsrael and Judah · 933 BC – 721 BC · 27 eventsIsrael & Judah933 BC – 721 BCJudah Alone · 721 BC – 586 BC · 22 eventsJudah alone721 BC – 586 BCThe Exile · 586 BC – 538 BC · 7 eventsExile586 BC – 538 BCReturn and Restoration · 538 BC – 400 BC · 13 eventsReturn538 BC – 400 BCBetween the Testaments · 400 BC – 4 BC · 8 eventsBetween400 BC – 4 BCThe Life of Jesus · 6 BC – AD 33 · 42 eventsJesus6 BC – AD 33The Apostles and the Early Church · AD 30 – AD 100 · 29 eventsThe ChurchAD 30 – AD 1006 BC — Jesus is born in Bethlehem4 BC — Herod the Great diesAD 26 — John preaches and baptizes in the wildernessAD 26 — Jesus is baptized by John in the JordanAD 27 — Jesus drives the traders from the templeAD 30 — Jesus rides into JerusalemAD 30 — The Last SupperAD 30 — Gethsemane and the arrestAD 30 — The trial before Caiaphas; Peter's denialAD 30 — Jesus before Pilate; Barabbas releasedAD 30 — Jesus is crucified at GolgothaAD 30 — Joseph of Arimathea lays Jesus in the tombAD 30 — Jesus rises on the first day of the weekAD 30 — The walk to EmmausAD 30 — The Great CommissionAD 30 — Jesus is taken up from the Mount of OlivesGabriel promises a son to Zechariah — placed by its order in the narrativeGabriel comes to Mary at Nazareth — placed by its order in the narrativeMary visits Elizabeth; the Magnificat — placed by its order in the narrativeJohn the Baptist is born — placed by its order in the narrativeSimeon and Anna see the child in the temple — placed by its order in the narrativeWise men from the east come to Bethlehem — placed by its order in the narrativeJoseph takes the child to Egypt — placed by its order in the narrativeThe boy Jesus among the teachers — placed by its order in the narrativeJesus is tempted in the wilderness forty days — placed by its order in the narrativeThe first disciples follow Jesus — placed by its order in the narrativeWater into wine at the wedding in Cana — placed by its order in the narrativeNicodemus comes to Jesus by night — placed by its order in the narrativeThe Samaritan woman at Jacob's well — placed by its order in the narrativeJesus reads Isaiah and is rejected at Nazareth — placed by its order in the narrativeJesus calls fishermen by the Sea of Galilee — placed by its order in the narrativeThe Sermon on the Mount — placed by its order in the narrativeJesus chooses the Twelve — placed by its order in the narrativeThe centurion's servant healed at Capernaum — placed by its order in the narrativeJohn the Baptist is beheaded — placed by its order in the narrativeFive thousand fed with five loaves — placed by its order in the narrativeJesus walks on the water — placed by its order in the narrativePeter confesses the Christ at Caesarea Philippi — placed by its order in the narrativeThe transfiguration — placed by its order in the narrativeSeventy are sent out two by two — placed by its order in the narrativeLazarus is raised at Bethany — placed by its order in the narrativeZacchaeus the tax collector — placed by its order in the narrative
the events of this period, each at its year — this one outlinedplaced only by its order in the narrativethe whole thread →

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Matthew 26:17–30Now on the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, “Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?”Mark 14:12–26On the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover, his disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and prepare that you may eat the Passover?”Luke 22:7–23The day of unleavened bread came, on which the Passover must be sacrificed.John 13:1–17Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to…
Opening words from the World English Bible (public domain); the passage list is in-house

Who and where

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Names and references: STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · coordinates: OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding · CC BY 4.0

How we know the date

ISBE's New Testament chronology (1915) gives AD 30.

Written in-house from the sources below · every year is a quotation

The sources, word for word

“If the first Passover of Jesus' ministry was in 780/27, the fourth would fall in 783/30.”

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · CHRONOLOGY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT · gives AD 30

Sources