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John 2 and 3 tell about
a Passover during which Jesus talked at night with Nicodemus and told him
that he must be born again.
John 5:1 tells of a
feast, most probably a Passover, in connection with which Jesus healed
a man who had suffered thirty-eight years from paralysis.
John 6:4 tells of a
Passover season during which Jesus fed a very large crowd with a boy's
small lunch.
John 12:1 introduces
the Passover season during which Jesus died.
This information enables scholars to determine the date of Jesus' death.
Note the following scholarly comment:
"Christ's baptism occurred near the end of A.D.
27. So His first (or 'Nicodemus') Passover occurred in the spring
of A.D. 28. Then His second (or 'paralytic') Passover fell in the
spring of A.D. 29, His third (or 'large-meal') Passover came in the spring
of A.D. 30–and His final (or 'crucifixion') Passover occurred three and
a half years after His baptism, that is to say, in the spring of A.D.
31."
C. Mervyn
Maxwell. God Cares: The Message of Daniel For You and Your Family
(Pacific Press Publishing Association, Boise, ID, 1981), pp. 218, 219.
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