Someone stole the body!

[Jehanne]

The Gospel of John has Jesus being crucified prior to the Passover meal but Mark says that he was crucified after the Passover meal.  Which was it?  Before or after?

I told you after. John never mentions the Passover meal and what requires him to, nothing. John 19:31 Since it was the day of Preparation, and so the bodies would not remain on the cross for the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day)....  here John tells us that Jesus was crucified on Friday the day after Passover and the day before the Sabbath.
John 19: 42 So because of the Jewish day of Preparation, since the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there. Again John shows us that Jesus was crucified on Friday the day after the Passover. 
Now what does all this mean, it means that Jesus being a good Jewish person would not have passed up the Passover meal, if he had His disciples would have thought Him strange and questioned Him, they questioned Him in the past on several things and something this important to the Jews the disciples would have questioned if He decided to pass on the Passover meal.
You need to study the whole of the scriptures and the peoples of the scriptures before asserting from a unbelievers site, these people only want to cast negatives on Christianity, they will misuse the Bible in their ignorance.

GC

So here's the scene in John's gospel: on the day leading up to Passover, and Passover will commence at 6 o'clock with the evening meal, on the day leading up to that Passover meal is the day when all the lambs are slaughtered and everyone goes to the temple to get their lamb for the passover meal. In Jerusalem this would have meant thousands of lambs being slaughtered all at one time. And in John's gospel that's the day on which Jesus is crucified. So that quite literally the dramatic scene in John's gospel has Jesus hanging on the cross while the lambs are being slaughtered for passover. John's gospel is forcing us, dramatically at least, through the storytelling mode, to think of Jesus as a passover lamb. Jesus doesn't eat a passover meal, Jesus is the passover meal, at least within the Christian mind in the way that John tells the story.

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One of the nation's foremost religion scholars, L. Michael White has a special interest in the social world of early Christians and Jews in the Greco-Roman period. His forthcoming book, Images of Jesus: The Shape of the Gospels and the Making of Tradition, deals extensively with the development of the gospels in early Christian history. White's distinguished career includes academic appointments at Yale University, Oberlin College, and University of Texas at Austin, where he currently serves as professor of classics and director of the religious studies program. White has published six books and over thirty articles and book reviews on Christianity and has received numerous awards and honors, including two National Endowment for the Humanities research fellowships. He is active as a program leader in the Society of Biblical Literature and is currently series editor for the Archaeology and Biblical Studies Series. He has served on the editorial boards of The Journal of Early Christian Studies and Biblical Archaeologist. White has served on archaeological excavations in Israel and also has done extensive field research in Italy, Greece, and Turkey. He received his Ph.D. and master of divinity degrees from Yale University.

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