3013.- Length of Christ’s Ministry by M. C. F.

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 25, 1910

3013.— Length of Christ’s Ministry

By M. C. F.

What proof is there that Christ’s ministry lasted three and one half years?

There is this: First, the prophecy in Dan. 9:27 predicting that in the midst of the last week of years, of the seventy weeks, our Lord should be cut off, or offered as a sacrifice, therein meeting the types. Secondly, the number of Passovers that Christ attended as given in the book of John. The first of these is noted in John 2:13, before which Christ had had several months’ ministry since His baptism. The second Passover in John 5:1, “a feast of the Jews.” The great feast was the Passover. The third Passover, noted in John 6:4; and the fourth (John 12:1) and last Passover, at which Jesus was crucified. This would make three and one half years for His ministry, beginning in the autumn of A.D. 27 and closing in the spring of A.D. 31.