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Is it True that Jesus died on a Friday the 13th and that is why we consider 13 and Friday the 13th to be bad? Also why on his res do we celebrate with a made up rabbit and egg hunting? (lemmy.world)

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Kind of seems disrespectful.

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[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Can't say that with any degree of confidence. "Probably" as you said. We can't say for sure what year, let alone what specific day.

The date of the crucifixion of Jesus was earlier than 36 AD, based on the dates of the prefecture of Pontius Pilate who was governor of Roman Judea from 26 AD until 36 AD.[221][222][223]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Jesus#Possibly_historical_elements

[–] zloubida@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

We don't know the year, but we know the probable part of the year. There's no certitude, but if we don't fall in hypercriticism, we have a wuite high degree of confidence on the fact that it occurred around 14 Nisan, so on the beginning of April.