REV Commentary on John 6:4

“the Passover.” The words, “the Passover” are in the Greek text. Nevertheless, there is evidence that at some point in history they were improperly supplied. There is ancillary evidence that the ministry of Jesus Christ was just over a year. The pattern in the biblical text of the Gospels is that Jesus received the holy spirit at his baptism, which was likely two to four months before the Passover in John 2, and died the next Passover. The evidence for the year Jesus was born, the year he…Read more..