Easter

Easter is this Sunday, which is pretty exciting. I read an article that says that the Last Supper would have actually taken place on the Wednesday before the crucifixion, for many years Christian's have celebrated the Last Supper on Thursday like the article says. A man named Colin Humphreys who is a scientist at University of Cambridge, suggests that all of this confusion about when the Last Supper and crucifixion is all because of a calendar mix-up he suggests that there was a mix up in calendars which would make the date for Easter as we know it wrong. Humphrey gathers his information from a biblical, historical and astronomical stand point to try and find when Jesus' final mean actually was. This writer says that you cannot trust the Gospels of the Bible (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) on this subject because the first three say that the Last Supper was linked with the festivities of Passover. But John says the Last Supper was before the Passover even begun. The reason why the writer says for this mess up of dates was because there is a different calender. Humphrey says that Jesus went by an old-fashioned Jewish calendar rather than a lunar calendar which was actually being used by most of the population by the time of Jesus' death. This is where Humphrey comes to the conclusion that the Last Supper would actually be on Wednesday allowing a rather large number of things happened between the Last Supper and the crucifixion.
"Humphreys believes a date could therefore be ascribed to Easter in our modern solar calendar, and working on the basis that the crucifixion took place on April 3, Easter Day would be on April 5."


http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110418/wl_uk_afp/britainreligionchristianseaster