Earthquake on 5th April 30 AD or 14th of Nisan.

On April 5, 30 A.D., Jesus Christ was crucified on the 14th of Nisan, the day of the Passover sacrifice festival of Jews. Bible says that there was earthquake and veil of the temple was torn.

If it is so, other historian should have recorded these events.

I was trying to search on these documents on net and came across the following. I am happy to share with you all. God bless the contributors.

What Bible says?

“Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.... Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the spirit. And, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks were split; - (Matthew 27:45-54).

What History says? 

1.      A Heavy eastern gate of the inner court of the temple opened on its own.

Josephus, in his Wars of the Jews:  

(the eastern gate of the inner, [court of the temple,] which was of brass, and vastly heavy, and had been with difficulty shut by twenty men, and rested upon a basis armed with iron, and had bolts fastened very deep into the firm floor, which was there made of one entire stone, was seen to be opened of its own accord about the sixth hour of the night. Now, those that kept watch in the temple came thereupon running to the captain of the temple, and told him of it; who then came up thither, and not without great difficulty was able to shut the gate again. (VI,5,3). )


Jewish Talmud in Yoma 39b:
 
(“Forty years before the Temple was destroyed [i.e., 40 years before 70 A.D., or in 30 A.D.] . . .the gates of the Hekel [Holy Place] opened by themselves, until Rabbi Yohanan B. Zakkai rebuked them [the gates] saying, Hekel, Hekel, why alarmist thou us? We know that thou art destined to be destroyed...” )

 Conclusion:
 It indicates that the huge heavy gate was opened on its own mainly because of the earthquake.



2.      The courtyard of Supreme Court of Jews (Sanhedrin) was moved from temple to another place as the building was heavily damaged.
Shabbat 15a:

 “Forty years before the destruction of the Temple, the Sanhedrin was BANISHED (from the Chamber of Hewn Stone) and sat in the trading station (on the Temple Mount)” -)

 Conclusion:
It indicates that the court yard was heavily damaged due to earthquake hence Jews changed the court yard from the temple to another place.


                                                                                            (to be continued)

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