However, the “Jewish calendar in the first century AD and to date a lunar eclipse that biblical and other references suggest followed the Crucifixion” were made possible by astronomical calculations.
“Christian texts mention that the Moon turned to blood after Jesus’s crucifixion – possibly referring to a lunar eclipse.
During which the Moon takes on a reddish hue,” read the following passage from a NASA internet page that details the historical record of solar eclipses.
Because of a lunar eclipse that day, researchers used this textual source to narrow down a potential date of crucifixion to Friday, April 3, 33 C.E.
We now know, then.
