Was "Easter" Ever About the Resurrection —

Or Did Rome Rename a Pagan Goddess's Feast Day and Call It Christian?

A reader-friendly essay for everyday believers — no Hebrew or theology degree required.

For centuries, believers have celebrated "Easter" without ever asking where the name — or the date — actually came from. In this free excerpt from Sons of Zion vs Sons of Greece, Dr. Miles R. Jones walks through the biblical, historical, and manuscript evidence that the "Good Friday to Easter Sunday" timeline can't fulfill Yeshua's own prophecy of "three days and three nights in the heart of the earth" — and traces how a 4th-century emperor merged Passover with the feast of a Babylonian fertility goddess to consolidate religious and political power. Whether you've celebrated Easter your whole life or you're just starting to ask questions about church tradition versus Scripture, this is a chapter that will change how you read the Gospels.

What You'll Discover Inside:

  • The "Sign of Yonah" problem — why the traditional Good Friday–Easter Sunday timeline only accounts for two nights, not the three days and three nights Yeshua explicitly prophesied
  • The Wednesday crucifixion case — the calendar and scriptural reasoning behind an alternative dating of the crucifixion to 31 AD, and why it matters
  • How pagan feast days became Christian holidays — the documented history of Constantine's decree linking Passover to the feast of Easter (Ishtar/Astarte), and how Christmas and Halloween followed the same pattern
  • The first Easter sermon ever recorded — Bishop Melito of Sardis's 167 AD homily and the doctrine of Supersessionism it introduced
  • The Quartodeciman Controversy — the story of the Christians who refused to abandon the 14th of Nissan and were "hunted to extinction" for it
  • A textual mystery in John 6:4 — how a single inserted phrase may have been used to manufacture a 3½-year ministry timeline for Christ
  • A 70-week timeline of Yeshua's ministry — mapped event-by-event across all four Gospels
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