Hello and welcome to focus the Catholic answers podcast for living, understanding, and

defending your Catholic faith.

I am Cy Kellett, your host. And when defending your

host. and when exactly

was Jesus crucified?

That is our question this hour

and it's interesting at least to me quite interesting that as you examine that question you get into

some issues of how modern scholars do this maybe mistakes modern scholars make and what the latest scholarship might say about what

scholarship from the 19th and earlier 20th century had to say it's just a

fascinating topic when exactly is that period? Which year did it happen that Jesus

was crucified to help us examine that question, Jimmy Aiken's senior

apologist here at Catholic answers and proprietor of Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world.

Hello Jimmy Aiken.

Very hello, Cy Kellett and we won't just be talking to you about what year Jesus

died. We'll be able to name the day and the hour.

Okay, all right, yes, I love this.

That is, and will this, well maybe we'll get into it as we go about what the sources are for that but primarily of

course it would be the Gospels. Yes that's correct although there are things

that are mentioned in the Gospels we are able to put some dates on based on sources outside the

Gospels like the writings of the Jewish historian Josephus and the

writings of Roman historians that tell us like when certain officials were in office and

things like that.

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