Jesus was crucified in his 36th year. The legend of 33 arises from there being a 3-year ministry and Luke's statement "about 30", but when Luke says "about" he means "about" every time. His actual age can be validated by history and particularly recorded eclipses.
He was dead about 36 hours or so before his tomb was found empty, but in those days the expression for that was both "after three days" (not literal in English) and "on the third day" (still literal in English). They understood each other when they called 36 hours three days, but we don't, so we came up with alternate arguments to confuse things.
If world civilizations had astrotheological keystones, then they all pointed to how to recognize divinity when it manifests. However, of all the candidates described here, only one had biography written by eyewitnesses in his generation. With the evidence of archaeology and even hostile witnesses, we can be confident that something unique happened. On the principle "It takes a Jesus to invent a Jesus", the number of incongruities and novelties in the 30s AD are so unprecedented that even if some were false the person who invented them had a better narrative than any other ever invented before or since. So they are worthy of inspection even by skeptics; but the more I look the more truth I find.
I've posted a lot on this, so you can search "Chronology" at c/Christianity for many details, or I'll be happy to help with specifics based on your interest.
Jesus was crucified in his 36th year. The legend of 33 arises from there being a 3-year ministry and Luke's statement "about 30", but when Luke says "about" he means "about" every time. His actual age can be validated by history and particularly recorded eclipses.
He was dead about 36 hours or so before his tomb was found empty, but in those days the expression for that was both "after three days" (not literal in English) and "on the third day" (still literal in English). They understood each other when they called 36 hours three days, but we don't, so we came up with alternate arguments to confuse things.
If world civilizations had astrotheological keystones, then they all pointed to how to recognize divinity when it manifests. However, of all the candidates described here, only one had biography written by eyewitnesses in his generation. With the evidence of archaeology and even hostile witnesses, we can be confident that something unique happened. On the principle "It takes a Jesus to invent a Jesus", the number of incongruities and novelties in the 30s AD are so unprecedented that even if some were false the person who invented them had a better narrative than any other ever invented before or since. So they are worthy of inspection even by skeptics; but the more I look the more truth I find.
I've posted a lot on this, so you can search "Chronology" at c/Christianity for many details, or I'll be happy to help with specifics based on your interest.