Contradiction claim
Do the Synoptic Gospels and John place Jesus’ final meal and death within the same Passover chronology?
Mark introduces the final meal on the first day of unleavened bread, when the Passover was killed. John says that on the morning of the trial those who brought Jesus to the judgment hall avoided defilement so that they might eat the Passover, and calls the day of the crucifixion the preparation. The two framings place the meal and the death differently relative to the Passover.
Chronological discrepancyReviewedSeverity: highClassification confidence: lowTranslation dependent
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And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?
Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.
And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!
The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.