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Adventistische Schriften über: "At what age did Jesus die?"
Answer
The scriptures present differing perspectives on Jesus' age at his death. While Ellen G. White and LeRoy Edwin Froom maintain that Jesus was on earth for 33 years and was crucified at the age of 33, other sources such as Josiah Litch provide calculations indicating that he was 37 years old.
These discrepancies arise from whether one uses the conventional calendar (the "vulgar era") or the astronomically calculated birth year, which lies about four years before our current reckoning.
\n\nChrist was thirty‑three years in the world
\n\n\n\n»For thirty‑three years Christ endured scorn, insult, and mockery in the world. He was rejected and crucified. Would He now, reflecting on the ingratitude of the people He came to save, withdraw His compassion and love from them? No.«
Crucifixion at the age of thirty‑three according to biblical chronology
\n\n\n»According to biblical chronology, Jesus was born four years before the commonly accepted date and was therefore crucified in the year 29, at the age of thirty‑three.«
Calculation of the age as thirty‑seven years
\n\n\n»Christ began His ministry at the age of thirty and was crucified at the age of thirty‑seven, counting seven years for His ministry. It is now, I believe, generally acknowledged that Christ was born four years before the start of the Christian era; thus He was four years old when it began.«
Relationship between calendar era and actual age
\n»...and this 490th year was the 33rd year of our Savior's age, calculated according to the conventional era of His birth; but the 37th, calculated according to the true era of the same.«
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