Understanding the Christ Crucifixion Time Chart: A Wednesday Crucifixion Timeline The “Christ Crucifixion Time Chart” by Jack Mundey offers a detailed visual timeline of Jesus’ final week, arguing for a Wednesday crucifixion instead of the traditional “Good Friday”.
The chart combines the Jewish lunar calendar (Abib/Nisan dates) with the Gentile weekday calendar to show how the events of the Passion align with a literal three days and three nights (72 hours) in the tomb, as stated in Matthew 12:40.
Jesus was crucified and buried on Wednesday, the 14th of Abib, and rose from the dead exactly 72 hours later. This view rejects the “Good Friday Myth,” noting that a Friday afternoon death to Sunday morning resurrection provides only about 36 hours — not the full three days and three nights Jesus prophesied. Timeline of Events (14th of Abib – Wednesday)
• Tuesday evening / Wednesday (start of Jewish day at sunset): Jesus eats the Passover Supper with His disciples in the upper room (7–9 PM).
• 9 PM – 1 AM: Jesus prays in the Garden of Gethsemane.
• 1–3 AM: Jesus is arrested.
• 3–6 AM: Peter denies Jesus; the rooster crows.
• 9 AM: Jesus is crucified on Wednesday morning.
• Noon – 3 PM: Darkness covers the land.
• 3–6 PM: Jesus dies and is buried before sunset (~5–6 PM Wednesday evening). This marks the beginning of the 72-hour period in the tomb.
The 72-Hour Period in the Tomb The chart carefully maps three full days and three full nights:
• Night 1 & Day 1: Wednesday night through Thursday (15th of Abib – High Sabbath, first day of Unleavened Bread).
• Night 2 & Day 2: Thursday night through Friday (16th of Abib).
• Night 3 & Day 3: Friday night through Saturday (17th of Abib – weekly Sabbath).
Jesus rises from the dead by (or before) 6pm Saturday evening, thus completing the exact 72 hours. Resurrection Discovery Early Sunday morning (18th of Abib), while it is still dark (~5 AM), Mary Magdalene and the other women arrive at the tomb and find it empty (John 20:1; Matthew 28:1).
This matches the Gospel accounts of the resurrection being discovered on the first day of the week. Important Features Highlighted
• Two Sabbaths: Thursday (15th Abib) is a special High Sabbath (start of the Feast of Unleavened Bread), while Saturday (17th Abib) is the regular weekly Sabbath. This explains the delay in preparing spices until Sunday.
• Passover Connection: The 14th of Abib is the biblical day for slaying the Passover lamb (Exodus 12, Leviticus 23:5). The chart presents Jesus as the Lamb of God crucified on the exact appointed day.
• 7 Days of Unleavened Bread: A sidebar visually shows the full festival week beginning on the 15th.
By placing the crucifixion on Wednesday the 14th of Abib and the resurrection discovery on Sunday the 18th, the chart claims to harmonize all four Gospels while fulfilling Jesus’ sign of “three days and three nights” literally.
I personally agree and uphold this methodology and interpretation of the text. While there is nothing wrong with the tradition of Christians upholding a “Good Friday” service for memorial purposes, technically there is no internal biblical evidence to support this memorial service, or celebration, from the account of the early Church in the book of Acts and onward. Before the end of the apostolic era, there was no mandate from Christ to His church to hold a specifical memorial service to recount His death (or passion week); neither His resurrection; because believers remembered His resurrection every Sunday when they gathered, as well as their local observance of the Lord’s Supper (1 Corinthians 11).
Technically, there was nothing “Good” about the death of the sinless Son of God; for it was a day of wrath being poured out upon Jesus of Nazareth to “taste death for everyman” (Hebrews 2:9). It was a day of darkness, judgement, and separation for a brief moment between the Son and the Father (Matthew 27:46); when the Son received the entirety of Adam’s race of sins upon His body on the cross ( 1 Peter 2:24).
What I personally find fault with many modern believers today is seeking to overlook the judgement of the cup of God’s wrath for our sins, which cup Christ voluntarily and willingly drunk to obtain eternal redemption for all who would believe in Him; is why they would “celebrate” His triumphant victory over death, hell, and even satan, by incorporating “easter bunnies and eggs”, symbols of secular observance for the new season and fertility?
[Easter is the early English Anglo-Germanic translation of the Greek term Pascha, in Acts 12:4, not a pagan celebration in context.]
Over time, in modern times, many believers have adopted the "money-making" aspect of Easter by synchronizing certain traditional symbols into their memorial services for the Passion Week of Christ. My question simply is this: Why should we corrupt the cross of Christ, in memorial service, with secular symbols and things which have no connection with the process for our atonement with God? While I respect the liberty of all believers, and their conscience to guide their decision making; I hereby call upon all, who desire to revere this week above all other weeks, to truly remember the true meaning and purpose for the passion of Christ;
“Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:” ( 1 Peter 3:18).
Lu 24:46 (KJV) And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Mt 26:42 (KJV) He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
Ro 5:9 (KJV) Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
If fellow Christians must celebrate or memorialize the passion week of Christ according to human tradition, then at least remember the purpose of Christ’s suffering, reflect upon your personal life before a holy God, remembering that Christ died for your sins; not just to make an atonement and satisfy God’s wrath against you, but to offer His power to deliver you from continuing to live after those things. At the cross of Christ we do not find easter bunnies, easter eggs, or free food or face painting to be offered; we find a bloodied Man, a Man whipped, scarred, nailed in both hands and feet; as a picture of what we all deserved before our Maker; wrath and judgement against us for our unbelief and sins; and the cost the eternal Son of God was willing to pay to make an atonement for us, defeat death and hell, even satan; to provide His personal power to liberate us from those sins.
Isa 53:4 (KJV) Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
Ga 1:4 (KJV) Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
With love, brother Carlos. 
