How old was Jesus at the time of his crucifixion?

He dates the crucifixion to the 33rd year of the life of Christ, on Friday 25 March of the 18th year of Tiberius.
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What was Jesus age at the time of crucifixion?

Most scholars reckon Jesus was crucified between 30 and 33AD, so 1985-8 years ago. Seeing as we can assume Jesus was about 30 when he was baptised and began his ministry, we know he was over 30 when he was crucified.
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What did Jesus do at the age of 33?

The 'Jesus Year' is age 33, the year that scholars generally believe Jesus of Nazareth was probably arrested and crucified in Jerusalem after starting a spiritual, political and intellectual revolution.
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At what age did Jesus begin?

Luke 3:23 states that Jesus was "about 30 years of age" at the start of his ministry.
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What did Jesus do when he was 12?

Jesus at the age of twelve accompanies Mary and Joseph, and a large group of their relatives and friends to Jerusalem on pilgrimage, "according to the custom" – that is, Passover.
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At what age did Jesus get baptized?

When Jesus “began to be about thirty years of age,” he went to be baptized of John at the river Jordan. (Luke 3:23.)
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Did Jesus have a wife?

"Christian tradition has long held that Jesus was not married, even though no reliable historical evidence exists to support that claim," King said in a press release.
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How old was Mary when Jesus was born?

At one time, Joseph was assumed to be elderly when he married Mary. However, now we believe that Mary and Joseph were both in their teens when Jesus was born, around sixteen and eighteen respectively. This was the norm for Jewish newlyweds at that time.
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Why is 33 a special birthday?

Jesus's age when he was crucified in 33 A.D. According to Al-Ghazali the dwellers of Heaven will exist eternally in a state of being age 33. Islamic prayer beads are generally arranged in sets of 33, corresponding to the widespread use of this number in dhikr rituals.
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What is the height of Jesus?

He may have stood about 5-ft. -5-in. (166 cm) tall, the average man's height at the time.
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What do BC and AD stand for?

Standardized under the Julian and Gregorian calendars, the system spread throughout Europe and the Christian world during the centuries that followed. AD stands for Anno Domini, Latin for “in the year of the Lord”, while BC stands for “before Christ”.
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What is the age of God?

I'd even say there was no God before the end of the Neolithic age, and that means God is roughly 7,000 years old.
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How old was Joseph when he married Mary?

It wasn't the only document that did so. In another early text, The History of Joseph the Carpenter, which was composed in Egypt between the 6th and 7th centuries, Christ himself tells the story of his step-father, claiming Joseph was 90 years old when he married Mary and died at 111.
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What language did the Jesus speak?

Most religious scholars and historians agree with Pope Francis that the historical Jesus principally spoke a Galilean dialect of Aramaic. Through trade, invasions and conquest, the Aramaic language had spread far afield by the 7th century B.C., and would become the lingua franca in much of the Middle East.
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How many kids did Mary and Joseph have?

They may have been: (1) the sons of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and Joseph (the most natural inference); (2) sons of the Mary named in Mark 15:40 as "mother of James and Joses", whom Jerome identified with the wife of Clopas and sister of Mary the mother of Jesus; or (3) sons of Joseph by a former marriage.
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When was the last time the Virgin Mary appeared?

Her last claim of a public apparition — Oct. 7, 1950 — drew 30,000 people. Among them was Ron Schelfhout, who was 14 years old at the time.
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What happened to Joseph Jesus father?

The circumstances of Joseph's death are not known, but it is likely that he died before Jesus's ministry began, and it is implied that he was dead before the Crucifixion (John 19:26-27).
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Did Jesus have a child with Mary Magdalene?

He related that after his crucifixion, Mary Magdalene, along with the family of Lazarus of Bethany, brought the body of Jesus to Provence, and there Mary had a child, Maximin, the fruit of her love for Jesus.
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What happened to Mary Magdalene after the crucifixion?

Mary Magdalene's life after the Gospel accounts. According to Eastern tradition, she accompanied St. John the Apostle to Ephesus, where she died and was buried. French tradition spuriously claims that she evangelized Provence (southeastern France) and spent her last 30 years in an Alpine cavern.
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What was Jesus's full name?

Due to the numerous translations, the Bible has undergone, "Jesus" is the modern term for the Son of God. His original Hebrew name is Yeshua, which is short for yehōshu'a.
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How do we know Jesus age?

Two main approaches have been used to estimate the year of the birth of Jesus: one based on the accounts in the Gospels of his birth with reference to King Herod's reign, and the other by subtracting his stated age of "about 30 years" when he began preaching.
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What day is Jesus's birthday?

From Rome, the Christ's Nativity celebration spread to other Christian churches to the west and east, and soon most Christians were celebrating Christ's birth on December 25.
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How many years of Jesus life are missing?

The unaccounted years, also known as the 'Lost Years' of Jesus Christ, between the age of 12 and 30 is a biblical conundrum that has baffled scholars and Christians for years.
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