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1) We can verify the correct way to count.

2) We can prove that those teaching that the Biblical day begins at sunrise are teaching nonsense.
(The evening following the supper on that 6th day before Passover was NOT the 9th of Nisan -- it
had to be Nisan 10, or Jesus was anointed on the wrong day).

3) The next thing we can prove is that the crucifixion could not have occurred in the middle of the
week.

4) The explanation given by some ministries (especially the Churches of God) for Daniel 9:27
"that Christ was cut off in the midst of the week" cannot be correct.

If Nisan 14, the day of Jesus' crucifixion, were in the middle of the week (4th day of the
week as the Jews counted) then Nisan 10 would have been on a Sabbath!

Count it for yourself -- but remember to count it as a 1st century Jew would have counted
it, and not as a 21st-century Westerner would figure it:

Jewish Idiom American Idiom
Based on Inclu- Based on
sive Counting Arithmetic
4th Day of the Nisan 14 1st Day Day "0" 14 Nisan
Week (Middle of
the Week)
3rd Day of the Nisan 13 2nd Day Day "1"
Week
2nd Day of the Nisan 12 3rd Day Day "2"
Week
1st Day of the Nisan 11 4th Day Day "3" - 4 days
Week
Sabbath Nisan 10 5th Day Day "4" 10 Nisan

The walk from Bethany to the Mount of Olives is over 1 1/2 miles. Now when Jesus ar-
rived at the Mount of Olives He mounted a colt of a donkey and rode into Jerusalem -- see John
12:12. If this occurred on the Sabbath day, He directly violated the law as spelled out in Exodus
23:12 and Deuteronomy 5:14. If Christ walked from Bethany to the Mount of Olives on the Sabbath
day, then rode into Jerusalem on a donkey on the Sabbath day, the crowds who met Him with "Ho-
sannah" and palm branches would have instead met Him with rocks! And at His trial a few days
later -- when the priests brought false charges against Him -- this surely would have been an issue.
He probably would have been found guilty on that charge alone.

Notice what Nehemiah 13:15-19 says --

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