Bart D. Ehrman - The Bane of Fundies!

[cdog]

After reading all four gospels I see that they are all in agreement that Christ was crucified on Friday the day of preparation for the Sabbath.

Really?

Mark 14:12 "On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, when it was customary to sacrifice the Passover lamb, Jesus’ disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover?”"

They clearly are in Jerusalem on the day of preparation (for the passover).

They proceed that evening to have the passover meal, jesus does the whole "this is my body" and all that. Note that the jewish day began and ended with sunset, so this is now passover day.

In any case they go out to pray, jesus is betrayed spends the night in jail and

Mark 15:25 "It was nine in the morning when they crucified him."

Obviously this is not 9am on the day of preparation for the passover, since they had already eaten the passover meal.

edit: you could of course claim that mark says jesus died on the day of preparation in mark 15:42. This is true

"It was Preparation Day (that is, the day before the Sabbath). So as evening approached"
"When evening had already come, because it was the preparation day, that is, the day before the Sabbath, "
"And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,"

a couple different translations for you. he's saying jesus died on the day of preparation... for the sabbath, in case you didn't get that