The spring feasts, from the cross to Pentecost

Four spring feasts, fixed as dates centuries early, execute: three inside one week, the fourth fifty days on.

In plain words

Labelled speculation, stated at full strength: the spring feasts, fixed centuries in advance, are kept in the week of the cross and at Pentecost. On John's timing he dies on the day the lambs die, lies in the grave over Unleavened Bread, and rises on Firstfruits, and Pentecost follows fifty days on. Paul calls him “Christ our passover” and his rising “the firstfruits,” by the feasts' own names.

The mechanism

PLANTED / PAID — on John's timing he dies on the day the lambs die; he is in the ground for Unleavened Bread; Paul does not say like a passover to a Greek city that never kept one, he says Christ our passover, and names the resurrection firstfruits by the feast's own name

Scripture

Leviticus 23; 1 Corinthians 5:7; 15:20

How it was checked

• EvidenceT3 SCRIPTURE; Status: LABELLED SPECULATION
• Letter eraTHE PAYMENT c. 30 AD
• SourcesSCRIPTURE — Leviticus 23; 1 Corinthians 5:7, 15:20