Many authors have suggested various means of resolving all the mysteries about the date of the crucifixion. The fourth year of the 202nd Olympiad was in 33 A.D.!!! GO TO creationanswers.net A great earthquake occurred during Christs death. From Friday evening at sunset to Saturday evening at sunset was an entire 24 hour day cycle, so it also counted as a day and a night. Gary R. Habermas. His boyish face was flush and confident now. Adding these figures up, we find that Jesus began proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom of heaven when he was 33 years old. Origen tells us in his work,Against Celsus(cf Contra Celsus II, 14), that Phlegon had some knowledge of Jesus. The 202nd Olympiad has been calculated to run from July AD 29 to June AD 33. The earthquake and RARE darkness for three hours couldn't be ignored by secular writers. Pure speculation. For example a time-line can be established from his famous works called The Olympiades as follows: "In the 4th year of the 202nd Olympiad, there was a great eclipse of the Sun, greater than had ever been known before, for at the sixth hour the day was changed into night, and the stars were seen in the heavens. Phlegon of Tralles was a first century secular Greek historian born not long after the Crucifixion. I believe Colin Humphreys is probably correct that the date of the crucifixion of Christ was Friday April 3, A.D. 33. Steven OReilly is a graduate of the University of Dallas and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Fr. The sedimentation rate puts this second earthquake about 65 years after the 31 B.C. The Historical Jesus, pp. From this brief statement, the skeptic wants to declare victory and go home. This blatantly religious appeal seemed odd and out of place. He lived up to the death of the emperor Augustus in 14CE and we know from Luke that his ministry began in the 15th year of Augustus successor, Tiberius. The dramatic story recorded above is fictional but the facts presented, namely Bible prophecy, Phlegon and Thallius writings, etc., are very true. And calculation makes out that the period of 70 weeks, as noted in Daniel, is completed at this time." /*
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