Chronology of the Death, Resurrection, and Ascension of Jesus

Month	Day	Week day	Description
April	6	Thursday	Last … day at the Gethsemane camp before going to the home of John Mark for the Last Supper. “I am the bread of life.” Here, Jesus gives his Farewell Discourse and Final Admonitions before returning to Gethsemane for the night. Jesus is betrayed and arrested just before midnight.
April	7	Friday	Early morning—Apostles in hiding, except for John Zebedee who follows Jesus. Jesus’ family arrives and they go to stay at Lazarus’ home in Bethany. Jesus is brought before Annas, then Caiaphus, then Pilate, and finally Herod. Sent back to Pilate, Jesus is eventually sentenced to death for “perverting the people.”
April	7	Friday	Jesus crucified about 9 a.m. Died about 3 p.m. Put in tomb about 4:30 p.m.
April	8	Saturday	Apostles remain in hiding. Beginning of Passover—almost 1.5 million Jews in Jerusalem. The Supreme Council of Salvington meets on Urantia with Gabriel presiding.
April	9	Sunday	2:45 a.m.—The Paradise incarnation commission consisting of seven unidentified Paradise personalities, arrives on the scene. 3 a.m.—Midwayers move the tombstone and the guards flee. Resurrected Jesus comes forth from the tomb in morontia form. He instructs Gabriel and speaks to the assembled morontia groups hailing from the seven mansion worlds. Meanwhile, the apostles are asleep at the home of Elijah Mark. About fifteen disciples stay at the home of Nicodemus, and about twenty of the women’s corps
April	9	Sunday	About 3:30 a.m.—Mary Magdalene and others find the tomb empty. Mary is the first to encounter the morontia Jesus. The apostles do not believe her story but David Zebedee does. Jesus appears to Mary a second time.
April	9	Sunday	About 4 a.m.—Gabriel summons the archangels to inaugurate the resurrection of the termination of the Adamic dispensation on Urantia. The archangel circuit operates from Urantia for the first time.
April	9	Sunday	10 a.m.—David ignores the doubting apostles and sends out his messengers to proclaim the resurrection of Jesus.
April	9	Sunday	Noon—Jesus’ third appearance, to his brother James in Bethany.
April	9	Sunday	2 p.m.—Jesus’ fourth appearance, to his family and friends at the home of Martha and Mary in Bethany.
April	9	Sunday	4:15 p.m.—Jesus’ fifth appearance, to twenty-five women believers at the home of Joseph of Arimathea.
April	9	Sunday	4:30 p.m.—Jesus’ sixth appearance, to about forty Greek believers at the home of Flavius.
April	9	Sunday	5 p.m.—Jesus’ seventh appearance, to Cleopas and his brother Jacob. They rush back to Jerusalem to spread the word.
April	9	Sunday	8 p.m.—The Sanhedrin call a hasty conference after hearing rumors of appearances. Decide to throw out of the synagogue anyone who mentions the resurrection.
April	9	Sunday	8:30 p.m.—Jesus’ eighth appearance, to Peter in the garden of the Mark home.
April	9	Sunday	9 p.m.—Jesus’ ninth appearance. Cleopas and Jacob go to the apostles at Elijah Mark’s house to relate their story. After they leave, Jesus appears to all but Thomas, who remains depressed in Bethpage.
April	10	Monday	Jesus spends the day with over one million morontia personalities who were then present on Urantia. He remains with them for forty days, instructing and learning. Jesus’ morontia form adjusted to the second stage.
April	11	Tuesday	8 a.m.—Jesus’ tenth appearance, at Philadelphia to Abner, Lazarus, and 150 associates, including most of the evangelical corps.
April	12	Wednesday	Jesus spent this day in the society of his morontia associates, receiving visiting morontia delegates from the mansion worlds of every local system of inhabited spheres in the constellation of Norlatiadek (100 systems).
April	14	Friday	Jesus transits to the third morontia stage.
April	15	Saturday	Peter and John go to Bethpage to bring back Thomas.
April	16	Sunday	6 p.m.—Jesus’ eleventh appearance, to the apostles at John Mark’s, including Thomas.
April	17	Monday	Jesus transits to fourth morontia stage.
April	18	Tuesday	8:30 p.m.—Jesus’ twelfth appearance, to Rodan and 80 others in Alexandria. David’s messenger (the 5th runner of a relay) had just arrived with the message of Jesus’ death (took 11 days).
April	21	Friday	Morning—Jesus’ thirteenth appearance, to the apostles in Galilee. Teaches them two and two.
April	22	Saturday	Jesus transits to the fifth morontia stage. He makes his 14th appearance at noon—to the apostles on a hill near Capernaum—the same place as the original ordination of the twelve. A rededication to the former pledges of ambassadorship. Jesus spends the rest of the week with morontia personalities.
April	27	Thursday	Jesus transits to sixth morontia stage.
April	29	Saturday	Jesus’ fifteenth appearance. At 3 p.m., Jesus appears to more than 500 believers in Bethsaida after Peter preaches a sermon.
April	30	Sunday	Apostles go to Jerusalem (on instruction of Jesus).
May	2	Tuesday	Jesus transits to the seventh morontia stage.
May	3	Wednesday	Apostles arrive in Jerusalem. Elijah Mark had died of a stroke. Mary Mark welcomes them to stay.
May	5	Friday	Jesus’ sixteenth appearance, to the apostles at the home of Nicodemus, the women’s corps, and about fifty disciples.
May	7	Sunday	Jesus becomes a Jerusem citizen.
May	13	Saturday	4 p.m.—Jesus’ seventeenth appearance, to Nalda and seventy-five Samaritans at Jacob’s well in Sychar.
May	14	Sunday	Jesus enters the embrace of the Most Highs of Edentia. Recall that Michael had experienced a previous morontia bestowal (his sixth) on the constellation headquarters of Endantum [119:6 (1315.4)].
May	16	Tuesday	9 p.m.—Jesus’ eighteenth appearance, at Tyre to a meeting of believers. Jesus and apostles had taught here for two weeks in July AD 29.
May	18	Thursday	Morning —Jesus’ last appearance (nineteenth) as a morontia personality. This was also the day of the festival of Pentecost. He met with the apostles on Thursday morning, 7:30 a.m. on Mount Olivet, and left them at 7:45. Total of forty days since the crucifixion. Jesus ascends to Jerusem and then Edentia, where the Most Highs, under the observation of the Eternal Son, release him from the morontia state and return him to the status of Paradise sonship and supreme sovereignty on Salvington. From the Universal Father, he receives formal confirmation of his completed sovereignty of the universe of Nebadon.
May	18	Thursday	10:30 a.m.—Peter calls a meeting of 120 disciples, as well as Jesus’ mother and brother James. Matthias replaces Judas as apostle and treasurer.
May	18	Thursday	1 p.m.— Spirit of Truth bestowed on Urantia.

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