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Fletch you have to get into the whole symbolism and metaphors of the life of Jesus.
He called himself the "Lamb of God." A lamb that had to be sacrificed for all our sins on a cross.
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I dont know if I recall Christ ever calling himself 'The Lamb Of God' you as well as I know, these types of things are made by the people surrounding the events of these historical times. Maybe he did or it was wirrtten in the psalms of course there was reference to him as such, but this book has been circulated SINCE HIS DEATh...
From this passage, it looks as if John The Baptist started this one.
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The day after being questioned about whether he was the Christ, John the Baptist said when he saw Jesus approaching: "look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!" John later said that the Holy Spirit told him who Christ was and that he is "the Son of God". (John 1:29-34).
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heres a good read titled <a href=http://www.yfiles.com/crucified.html>What Day Of The Week Was Christ Crucified</a>
with tons of background history on Passover and the actual Jewish traditions.
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Jesus was crucified on what people believe was a Friday:
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tons of debate about that. but heres a good stab at it, placing it not on Friday but on Wednesday.
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<font size="1">Most of the confusion relating to the crucifixion can be traced to the way a Jewish person interprets time as compared to someone from the west. The Jewish "day" starts at Sunset (which changes slightly depending on the season). Therefore, their day is getting dark when it begins. During the time of Christ they adopted the Roman practice of counting 4 "watches" during the night. Each watch started approximately 9:30, 12:00 midnight, 2:30 (called the cockcrow watch), and 5 am. From sunrise they divided the day in sections into what they termed "hours". Thus when they said that something happened at the 6th hour it was about noon or 6 hours after sunrise, not 6 A.M like we would reckon time.
A Roman "day", however, started at midnight (as does most of the western world) so when their day began it would be dark and would soon be getting light--just the opposite of the Jewish day. Most scholars agree that John wrote the Gospel of John late in the first century. He often used Greek terms in his writing which indicates he was heavily influenced by Greek culture. Further evidence is seen in that he would often interpret the meaning of Hebrew words which would have been unnecessary if he had been writing for a Jewish audience. Also, Irenaeus stated that John published his Gospel during his residence at Ephesus--the capital of the Roman province of Asia. Therefore he was obviously writing to the Gentiles and would have used terminology related to the time of day that Gentiles would have understood.
An example of this confusion of different terminology's involves when Christ was nailed to the cross. According to Mark it was the third hour (third hour since sunrise or 9 am) (Mark 15:25). However John says it was "about the sixth hour" when he was still being sentenced by Pilate and before he was led to the cross (John 19:14). The difference lies in the fact that John is thinking Roman time which starts at midnight and thus it was about 6 am. It probably took a few more hours for Christ to make his way to the cross and not hard to imagine that it was accomplished by 9 AM.
Some of the confusion relates to terms used to describe the Passover Feast itself:
RULES FOR SELECTION OF PASSOVER LAMB
"The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, 'This month is to be for you the first month [Nisan], the first month of your year. Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month [Nisan 10] each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household. . . .The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the people of the community of Israel must slaughter them at Twilight" (Exodus 12:1-6).
Notice that this was the 10th day of Nisan--4 days before Preparation day of Passover which occurs just before the Feast of Passover. Actually the Feast occurs that evening, but according to Jewish time it is actually the next "day".</font>
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And this all happened during Passover...according to some who study this...the plot to kill Jesus was actually made on the passover day they are to select the passover "lamb."
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you have to be honest and think, any parisioners or followers he would have gathered, would have wanted nothing more than it to be 'true' so they labeled him the lamb of god as their Passover lamb, that doesnt make it so.
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So take it for what it's worth.
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no worries, its all good dawg.
drink up. post more.
