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NASA’s Shocking Discovery May Reveal The Exact Day Jesus Was Crucified
According to Oxford University scholars, a NASA discovery could validate the biblical story of Jesus’ crucifixion.
Some historians believe that the Bible’s description of the sun turning into darkness and the moon turning into blood alludes to events that happened after Christ’s death.
According to NASA’s models, which chart the movements of the sun, moon, and earth across time, a lunar eclipse took place on Friday, April 3, 33 AD, which is the year that is typically associated with the death of Jesus.
The cosmic event would have taken on a crimson hue due to the moon’s location, and Jerusalem would have witnessed it shortly after sunset.
Biblical historians think the NASA-identified lunar eclipse was the same one mentioned in the Bible.
Since today is recognized by Christians as the day when Jesus was crucified, the NASA finding, which was made in the 1990s, is currently trending on TikTok.
“Christian texts mention that the Moon turned to blood after Jesus’s crucifixion—potentially referring to a lunar eclipse, during which the Moon takes on a reddish hue,” NASA noted.
The American space agency also stated that due to a lunar eclipse, researchers have narrowed down a potential date for the crucifixion to Friday, April 3, 33 AD.
The Bible verse that discusses the moon appears in Acts 2:20, which states, “The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.”
According to the Bible, the apostle Peter spoke the words fifty days after Jesus was crucified, which led some scholars to surmise that he was reciting what he had seen when Jesus was crucified.
Many historians contend, however, that the verse was intended to foretell Jesus’ second coming.
That is because Peter was quoting from Joel 2:28–31, a passage that speaks of cosmic signs and spiritual awakening: “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.”
Many historians think Peter was describing how Joel had already prophesied the crucifixion because the Book of Joel was written centuries before the event.
Biblical experts Colin Humphreys and W. Graeme Waddington of the University of Oxford contended that the moon did indeed become crimson blood after Jesus’ death based on NASA’s findings and biblical allusions to the crucifixion.
In their theory, Peter was not predicting the arrival of Jesus, but rather announcing the fulfillment of Joel’s prophecy to the audience.
The researchers found that the Gospels’ account of darkness falling over the region between noon and three o’clock when Jesus was hanging on the cross closely matched the imagery found in Joel’s prophecy.
Humphreys and Waddington argued that Peter’s use of the phrase “the sun shall be turned into darkness” referenced Matthew 27:45: “From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land.”
The scholars also cited lesser-known works in the New Testament apocrypha, which includes accounts of Jesus’ birth, divinity, and interactions with his family and followers.
However, the conventional biblical canon excluded the New Testament apocrypha due to its lack of divine inspiration.
Humphreys and Waddington, however, cited a passage known as the “Report of Pilate” as more proof of strange heavenly occurrences during the crucifixion.
“At his crucifixion the sun was darkened; the stars appeared and in all the world people lighted lamps from the sixth hour till evening; the moon appeared like blood,” the verse reads.
They claimed that this further supports the idea that Jesus died on the day of the historic lunar eclipse.
Good Friday is observed by Christians worldwide to remember Jesus’ crucifixion and death.
According to the first full moon after the first day of spring, Good Friday always occurs two days before Easter Sunday, which is the first Sunday after that full moon.
The practice dates back to early Christian attempts to coordinate the celebration with astronomical phenomena and Jewish Passover.
According to the Hebrew lunar calendar, Jesus is thought to have been crucified around Passover.
On the Sunday after Passover, Jesus resurrected from the dead, according to the Gospels.
Early Christians looked for a method that would maintain Easter’s connection to Passover and Jesus’ resurrection to make it represent this chronology.
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