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    fied that the evidence from astronomical calculation , and from . the phenomena of the Gospels as to the train of events , paints to the year we fix upon as the most probable of any . This is A . D . 30 ; and , agreeably to

    the views we have advocated as to the duration of pur Lord ' s Ministry , we accordingly place his Baptism early in A * D , 29 « As to the year ; of the Crucifixion , Mr . Greswell has come to the same conclusion ; and in his 7 th Appendix ( Vol . III . p . 320 ) , he speaks with great confidence of this date as following from what he had previously demonstrated . "

    In the year 30 , the Passover full-moon occurred on the 6 th of April , about midnight . This was between the Thursday and the Friday on which our Lord was crucified . The paschal lamb was killed , before sunset , on the 14 th day of the month Nisan , ( more anciently Abib 9 J which , like all the other Jewish

    months , began at the new-moon ; and the commencement of the month was so arranged , that the full-moon in Nisan should be as near as possible to the vernal equinox—either the first after it , or , at most , a short time before it—in order that there might be barley to offer , according to the Law , on the day after the Sabbath which occurred during the Passover . The Jews reckoned their year by lunar months of twenty-nine and thirty days alternately . In ordinary years there were only twelve months , making 354 days ; but this was eleven days too little . To keep the Passover in the right period for the first-fruits , a month was added , when necessary , between Adar and Nisan , called Ve-Adar . It may reasonably be supposed that , without such necessity , they would not add this intercalary month ,

    and so delay the Passover ; because , before the first-fruits were offered , none of the produce of the barley-harvest was to be eaten . In the year preceding the Crucifixion , viz . A . D . 29 , the full-moon of Nisan occurred , at Jerusalem , either on the 17 th of April , or on the 18 th of March about 5 P . M , ; and as this latter was so near the vernal equinox , it is not improbable that the intercalation did not take place in that year . This supposition best suits the period of our Lord's public preaching in Galilee ; and though some uncertainty must , of course , hang over it , there is sufficient probability to authorize the adoption of it . Agreeably to the foregoing positions , we may assign the following dates to the leading periods in the gospel history . A . D .

    28 . Aug . 19 . Commencement of the 15 th year of Tiberius . Sept . 1 —7 . The Baptist began his Ministry , probably before the Feast of Tabernacles . 29 . Jan . 20 . Baptism of Christ .

    existence or importance . I have wilfully misrepresented nothing , but endeavoured to lay before tbe reader every argument connected with the subject , in the very light in which it appeared to my own mind . " Chtvn . p . 336 .

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    On the Chronology and Arrangement of the Gospel Narratives , 771

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1831, page 772, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2603/page/47/