So I finally finished porting over everything from the misspelled web blog but I have decided for a bit until everyone (who am I kidding here) figures it out and starts going to http://ingeniousvortex.blogspot.com/. In the meantime I will just post twice. The copying and pasting made for a very tedious Friday the 13th and I am hoping I am not too unlucky.
This got me thinking about Friday the 13th (not the movie). Somewhere along the line I got it in my head that one of the reasons it was unlucky was that Good Friday fell on that day… obviously it fell on a Friday but did it really fall on the 13th?
Or maybe not, time for a Google. Because here on a Google blog the html does not work, I will just go type it in.
I started out with “Jesus died” wiki. Why not, we all know how reliable wiki is… “Scholars generally conclude that Jesus was born sometime between 7-2 BC/BCE and died sometime between 26-36 AD/CE.” So if I read this right Jesus was born BC? Talk about miracles!
“According to all four Gospels, Jesus died before late afternoon” and since all four Gospels have him rising from the dead on Sunday (or since they were Jewish, could it have been the Sabbath that was really Saturday, which would have had Jesus dying on a Thursday). In any case according to the Apostles Creed – “He descended into hell. On the third day he rose again.” “Regardless of the year of Jesus' death, most Christians commemorate the crucifixion on Good Friday and celebrate the resurrection on Easter Sunday.” So as usual Wiki is no help since they don’t even know the year he was born or the year he died but only when we commemorate and celebrate.
Matthew 12: “Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from You. But He answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah: For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth…” So it becomes more confusing the deeper I go into it and to cover the scriptures Christ had to die on Thursday... or, if he was in hell for three nites and he died on Friday then Easter must have occurred on Monday; that or the whole Friday the 13th thing does not work out at all.
So ignoring these inconsistencies and if we say that Jesus did die in the spring and it was on Friday the 13th, I decided to check if any fell in March or April 26-36 AD. Going back to Wiki on the subject of Friday the 13th: “:…occurs when the thirteenth day of a month falls on a Friday, which superstition holds to be a day of bad luck. In the Gregorian calendar, this day occurs at least once, but at most three times a year. Any month's 13th day will fall on a Friday if the month starts on a Sunday.” Since I am not Rainman I had to consult a calendar about what spring months in 26-36 AD started with a Sunday and therefore had a Friday the 13th.
But didn’t Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 really screw things up when he readjusted the calendar to get things right so we wouldn’t end up with December falling in the beginning of the summer or some kind of nonsense? This Friday the 13th research is getting more and more complicated. Let’s ignore all of this and just go back to a calendar like we were going to in the previous paragraph.
From: http://calendarhome.com/tyc/ - where you can make calendars for almost any year AD: Friday the 13th's
26 AD - September & December
27 AD - June
28 AD - February & August
29 AD - May
30 AD - January & October
31 AD - April & July
32 AD - June
33 AD - February, March & November
34 AD - August
35 AD - May
36 AD - January, April & July
If Christ died on the 13th and Easter was in the spring then we have 31 and 33 AD… One of those must have been the year of Jesus’ death.
Don’t take it as Gospel.
© 08.13.2010 steven d philbrick SR+ DakotaDawg
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