The Jimmy Akin Podcast | Episode 048 (August 25, 2025)

Christians all over the world commemorate the Crucifixion on Good Friday, but some argue that Jesus wasn’t crucified on a Friday at all. Instead, they claim that he was crucified on a Wednesday.

In this episode, Jimmy Akin looks at the evidence from all four Gospels and reveals what we really can say with confidence about when Jesus was Crucified.

Timecodes
00:00 – Coming Up
00:17 – Intro
00:38 – 1 “Good Friday”
02:58 – 2 Doubts About Friday
04:27 – 3 Not a Matter of Faith
05:59 – 4 “Three Days and Three Nights”?
10:35 – 5 “On the Third Day”
13:24 – 6 The First Day of the Week
14:28 –7 The Sabbath
15:19 – 8 The Day of Preparation
16:30 – 9 The Evidence of Mark
18:58 – 10 The Evidence of Luke
20:54 – 11 The Evidence of Matthew
23:31 – 12 The Evidence of John
27:21 – 13 Conclusion
28:54 – Closing/Outro
29:49 – End