The Architect's Library

Weighing

Three Days and Three Nights

The case for the crucifixion on Wednesday, 25 April, AD 31

The full case for Wednesday, 25 April 31 as the day of death: the sign of Jonah, the week with two sabbaths, the calendar of the temple and the astronomy, with the rivals AD 30 and AD 33 built up at their strongest and the reigning date laid against its own measure. Marked in three layers — calculated, documented, construed — with workbench, countercase and the full computation in the appendices.

  1. The date that was never weighed
  2. Reader's Guide

  3. Part I — The question and the measure

    1The axiom that is no measurement
  4. 2The measure of this book

  5. Part II — The day

    3The sign of Jonah
  6. 4The week with two sabbaths
  7. 5Erev Pesach, the fourteenth
  8. 6The earliest voices, and the family tree

  9. Part III — The year

    7The two-horse race
  10. 8The calendar of the temple
  11. 9Tiberius, John, and the years of the ministry
  12. 10The King in the Coronation Month

  13. Part IV — The week

    11Seven days in Nisan
  14. 12The earth as witness

  15. Part V — The counter-weighing

    13Luke 24:21, the heaviest verse
  16. 14AD 30 at its strongest
  17. 15The consensus by its own measure
  18. 16The weighing

  19. Part VI — The second witness

    17The seventy weeks
  20. What stands
  21. Appendix AAstronomical and calendrical tables
  22. Appendix BThe corpus sweep of the double construction, and its base rate
  23. Appendix CThe crescent criteria and the Babylonian reproduction
  24. Appendix DThe register of assumptions
  25. Appendix EThe pre-registrations
  26. Appendix FThe scoring model
  27. Appendix GThe register of sources
  28. Appendix HGlossary and timeline