When was Jesus resurrected?

Answer 1

As he was crucified on the day before Passover (always on the Jewish Sabbath - a Saturday), heas crucified on the Friday. On the 'third day' he resurrected. In Jewish custom, days were counted always including today, so if he was crucified on Friday, he was resurrected on Sunday morning. In the Christian church this is Easter day, and the Friday before is Good Friday. We are told that jesus was around 33 at the time of his death, and as he was born around 3-4 BC, this puts the year of the resurrection around 30AD. Therefore he was resurrected on the first'easter Day' in 30 AD. To work out the time of easter, see below: Easter Sunday is the date of the annual celebration of Christ's resurrection. The aim of the Easter Dating Method is to maintain, for each Easter Sunday, the same season of the year and the same relationship to the preceding full moon that occurred at the time of his resurrection in 30 A.D. This was achieved in 1583 A.D. using skill and common-sense by Pope Gregory the 13th, and his astronomers and mathematicians, by introducing something called the Gregorian dates table (Gregorian calendar). Easter Sunday, since 326 A.D., has always been one of the 35 dates from March 22 to April 25. The present method describing the Easter Dating Procedure can be found in Christian Prayer Books. This procedure was been dramatically simplified by Ronald W. Mallen, Adelaide, South Australia. You can easily calculate the date for Easter at any time in the past or future by visiting http://www.assa.org.au/edm.html#Calculator where, with the use of a simple calculator, a simple method for obtaining Easter is given. In Orthodox churches (like the Russian Orthodox Church or Greek Orthodox Church) the date for Easter is usually different. This is because in 1583 the Western world adopted the 'Gregorian' calendar rather than the 'Julian Calendar' of the Roman Empire meaning that in England some dates (October 5th - 14th) were removed from the calendar. In the east, the old Julian calendar was still used, and although the Gregorian calendar is now used for secular things, the Julian calendar is still used for determining Easter. In some years the Orthodox Easter Sunday occurs on the same day as the Western Easter Sunday. For example, this occurred in 1990 because the Western Easter Sunday date of (Gregorian calendar) April 15, 1990 is the same as the Orthodox Easter Sunday date of (Julian calendar) April 2, 1990. In most years, Orthodox Easter follows Western Easter by one or more weeks.

Answer 2

He resurrected on Easter Sunday. (No one is sure when the exact date was.) There are various dates possible, but the one favored in terms of it matching a number of criteria such as the passover date and the darkness attested by historians, is 33 AD.

In this year the passover fell on April 2 and so the resurrection occurred on April 5th.