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Tue next day was the day before the Pasch; the celebration of the Feast of the Unleavened Bread would begin at sundown on the fifth of April, a.p. 30.
In strict accord with the Mosaic law, as stated in Exodus 12:18, the ceremonial paschal lamb must be slain on the fourteenth day of the first month in the evening. According to the Jewish reckoning of a day-from 6 p.m. to 6 p.m.-the actual day of the Pasch was reckoned from one evening until another. However, in this year of 30 the Pasch happened to fall on Saturday. To avoid violating the stringent Sabbath rest, many of the Jews transferred the slaying of the lamb to the evening of Thursday.