The Timetable of Easter

Taking the information from the four Gospel writers we have pieced together the events of that first Easter in the month Nissan AD27. Check out our Easter timeline...

Thursday

Evening      - The Last Supper
                   Jesus comforts his disciples
                   Gethsemane
After dark   - Betrayal and arrest
                   Appearance before Annas

Friday

Early hours  - Appearance before Caiaphas
Daybreak     - Appearance before Sanhedrin
6:00am        - Appearance before Pilate
                   - Appearance before Herod
                   - Appearance back before Pilate
                   - Flogging
                   - Taken to Golgotha
9:00am       - Crucifixion
12 noon      - Darkness starts
3:00pm       - Darkness ends
Just after 3pm
                 - Jesus dies
As evening approached
                 - Request for the release of the body
                 - Centurion verifies death
Before 6pm  - Burial in Joseph's tomb

Saturday

Time unknown - Chief priests ask for tomb to be secured
                      - Seal put on the stone and guard posted
After 6:00pm   - Women purchase spices to anoint Jesus' body

Sunday

While still dark
                       - Women leave for the tomb
Dawn               - The empty tomb seen by the women
                       - Peter and John go to the tomb
                       - Mary Magdalene sees Jesus in the Garden
Nearly evening
                       - Jesus leaves the two going to Emmaeus
Evening            - Jesus appears to 10 disciples

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