Can the Dates of Jesus' Death Be Reconciled?

Examining Professor Pitre's Harmonisation of the Gospels

During my undergraduate degree, my thesis supervisor suggested that I look at the discrepancy between John and the Synoptics on the date of Jesus’ death.¹

This is one of the most glaring contradictions in the Gospels - and surely the most fascinating. While the Synoptics place Jesus’ death on 15th Nisan, after the Passover meal was eaten, John places it …