Andy Mangus Supporter I am a Christian since October 1979 & devoted truth seeker.

My short answer opinion would be that Jesus was 30 + 3 years to equal total of 33 years of age at time of his crucifixion. 

God has shown many times in scripture for having His own reasons for numbers to have relevance and significant meanings. Example: Jesus was 30 when beginning His earthly ministry.(Luke 3:23 NKJV). Then He took 3 years(as believed in many years of church tradition) to complete His official public ministry in the flesh which culminated in the "ultimate sacrifice of our Lord and Savior." Jesus Christ gave His precious blood and died on that wicked cross so that we may be "the redeemed of The Lord and forever cleansed of all our unrighteousness, to be found holy and pure before God in Heaven! Jesus Christ came to be our substitute; our Blessed Redeemer so that we may each be found faithful and just before God, the Father in Heaven!

God has shown that certain significance pertains to specific numbers! Examples: God is three persons in one! "God, the Father; God, the Son and, God, the Holy Spirit". Another is that ON the THIRD day He arose from the grave/tomb having victory over death and giving us fulfillment of prophecy. The number 7 is the perfect number. God made our week to be 7 days. God has perfect order and purpose in ALL of His creation. God has His divine and Holy reasons for all He has done and will do! "For no one can truly know the mind of God, for only He is omnipotent, omnipresent and "everlasting to everlasting"! 

"Praise God that He provided a Savior! And, His name is Jesus Christ!"

~~~Andy~~~

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Tim Maas Supporter Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army

In my opinion, from references made to events connected with Jesus' birth in Matthew and Luke, He could have been born no earlier than 9 BC (based on documentation of the census ordered by Augustus that is referenced in Luke 2), and no later than 7 BC, based on the decree of Herod (who died in 5 BC) to kill all the male children in the area around Bethlehem who were two years of age or younger, as related in Matthew 2.

Considering the time that would have been required for people to travel to their ancestral cities for the census, and for the wise men to travel to Israel following the appearance of the star that was guiding them, I would suggest a date of 7 BC for His birth. (Discrepancies in the various reckonings of the calendar that have occurred in the last two thousand years account for the fact that the year in which He was born is now regarded as "before Christ".) 

The fact that shepherds were staying out in the field by night with their flocks when Jesus was born suggests that Jesus would have been born in the Spring (March or April, just before the Passover), when grass would have been most abundant.

Luke 3 says that John the Baptist began his ministry in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, which would be no earlier than AD 28. From subsequent references to the occurrences of various Jewish religious observances in the Gospels, there were at least three annual Passover observances during Jesus' ministry (the last being the one that occurred at the time of His crucifixion).

In addition, the Gospels indicate that Jesus' death occurred on the fourteenth or fifteenth day of the Jewish month Nisan (which overlaps with the months of March or April in our modern calendar). Further, it was also the day before the Sabbath.

From the astronomical calculations associated with determining the date of the Passover, and comparing them with a time frame corresponding to a beginning date no earlier than AD 28 (the beginning of John the Baptist's ministry), and no later than AD 36 (the end of Pilate's tenure as the Roman procurator of Judea) this would mean that the year in question would have had to have been AD 30. Thus, Jesus would have been crucified either just before or just after His thirty-sixtth birthday (since there would have been no year "0"). (This would be older than He would have been if He had been exactly thirty at the start of His ministry, but the wording in Luke puts His age at that point at "about thirty", and not thirty exactly.)

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Jeffrey Johnson Supporter

How old was Jesus when he died?

The Traditional View (Age 33): This is based on the Gospel of Luke, which states that Jesus was "about 30" at the start of his ministry, and the Gospel of John, which documents three separate Passovers, suggesting a 3-year ministry.

Luke established this when he said in Luke Chapter 3:23 ESV: "And Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years of age."

He was baptised in the year 29 C.E., and Jesus died about 3:00 p.m. on Friday, the 14th day of the spring month of Nisan (March-April), 33 C.E. The basis for these dates is as follows:

Jesus was born approximately six months after the birth of his relative John (the Baptizer), during the rule of Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus (31 B.C.E.–14 C.E.) and the Syrian governorship of Quirinius, and toward the close of the reign of Herod the Great over Judea.​—Mt 2:1, 13, 20-22; Lu 1:24-31, 36; 2:1, 2, 7.

Many scholars locate the time of Quirinius' first governorship as somewhere between the years 4 and 1 B.C.E., probably from 3 to 2 B.C.E. According to Josephus' account, it took place in "the thirty-seventh year after Caesar's defeat of Antony at Actium." (Jewish Antiquities, XVIII, 26 [ii, 1]) That would indicate that Quirinius was governor of Syria in 6 C.E. Justin Martyr, a Palestinian of the second century C.E., cited Roman records as proof of Luke's accuracy regarding Quirinius' governorship at the time of Jesus' birth. 

The prophecy in Daniel 9:24-27 points to the appearance of the Messiah at the start of the 70th "week" of years (Da 9:25) and his sacrificial death in the middle or "at the half" of the final week, thereby ending the validity of the sacrifices and gift offerings under the Law covenant. (Da 9:26, 27; compare Heb 9:9-14; 10:1-10.) This would mean a ministry of three and a half years' duration (half of a "week" of seven years) for Jesus Christ.

For Jesus' ministry to have lasted three and a half years, ending with his death at Passover time, would require that the period include four Passovers in all. Evidence for these four Passovers is found at John 2:13; 5:1; 6:4; and 13:1. John 5:1 

In John 4:35, Jesus is said to have said that there were "yet four months before the harvest." The harvest season, particularly the barley harvest, got underway about Passover time (Nisan 14). Hence, Jesus' statement was made four months before that, or about the month of Chislev (November-December). 

Conclusion

Since Jesus' death took place in the spring month of Nisan, his ministry, which began three and a half years earlier according to Daniel 9:24-27, must have begun in the fall, about the month of Ethanim (September-October). John's ministry (initiated in Tiberius' 15th year), then, must have begun in the spring of the year 29 C.E. His ministry would start about 30 years later in the fall of 29 C.E., and his death would come in the year 33 C.E. (on Nisan 14 in the spring.

Especially noteworthy is John's apparent mention of the four Passovers of Jesus' earthly ministry, which confirms a ministry of three and a half years, ending in 33 C.E.f​—John 2:13; 5:1; 6:4; 12:1; and Joh 13:1.

The belief that Jesus died at age 33 is not explicitly stated in any scripture. Still, it is derived by combining Luke 3:23, which says Jesus was "about thirty" when he began his ministry, with the Gospel of John's mention of three distinct Passover festivals, which imply a three-year ministry. 

Therefore, 30 years + 3 years of ministry = 33 years when Jesus died.

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