One paragraph from the Report of Pilate, which is considered to be part of the New Testament apocrypha, said, “At his crucifixion the sun was darkened;
The stars appeared and in all the world people lighted lamps from the sixth hour till evening; the moon appeared like blood,” according to the Post.
According to the Bible answer website Got Questions, a prophesy in the book of Daniel suggests that Jesus’ crucifixion is most likely to occur in the year 33 A.D.
The prophet describes how the angel Gabriel visited him and his fellow Jews during their captivity in Babylon in Daniel 9. Gabriel informed him that it would take 69 weeks, or 483 years, from the moment the edict.
To restore Jerusalem was given until the “anointed one”—Jesus—was cut off. Around 444 B.C., King Artaxerxes of Persia gave the order to “restore and rebuild Jerusalem.”
According to our solar calendar, 483 years is equivalent to 476 years in the 360-day year that the ancient Jews employed. After accounting for the change from B.C.
