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The Duration of Christ’s Ministry

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Dec 5, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 49.

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The Duration of Christ’s Ministry

It has already been shown that about three months intervened between his [Christ's] baptism and the passover following; which was probably that of 780 [A. D. 27], the first of his ministry. John 2:13. Two other passovers are mentioned by this evangelist (John 6:4 and 11:56), the latter being the last passover. If there were but three passovers during his ministry, it was only of two years and some months' duration. But John speaks of a feast (chap. 5:1) which he does not name, and which many regard as a passover; if so, there would be four passovers, and his ministry extend a little over three years. . . . Assuming here that it was a passover, we reach the result that his ministry, computing from his baptism in 780 [A. D. 27], continued about three years and three months.—“The Life of Our Lord,” by Samuel J. Andrews, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1891, pages 39, 40.