Was the ministry of Jesus 3 1/2 years or 70 weeks?

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Was the ministry of Jesus 3 1/2 years or 70 weeks?

"The Gospels record that exactly seventy weeks – four hundred and ninety days – transpired from the day that Yeshua was baptized in water until the day he fulfilled his initial mission by baptizing his Disciples with the Holy Spirit." p2

"It was Eusebius who first proposed a three-and-one-half-year ministry, three hundred years after the resurrection of Yeshua. Every church ‘father’ and historian for the first three centuries either clearly stated or never contradicted that Yeshua’s ministry was "about one year." p3

The two accurate Passovers are recorded in John:

1. "Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover …" John 2:23 and

2. "Now before the Feast of Passover …" John 13:1

The two bogus Passovers are:

1. "after this there was a feast of the Jews …" John 5:1 This is The Feast of Weeks (aka Shavuot) not Passover. and
2. "Now the Passover, a feast of the Jews was near." These words are missing from "Greek Manuscript #472, an 11th century manuscript that was originally housed in Constantinople, may be the last in the manuscripts that maintained the accurate rendering of John 6:3-5." p9

I suggest that " a three-and-one-half-year ministry of Messiah was invented by Eusebius, and an additional three-and-one-half-year period was inserted-by-interpretation from the The Acts to give Eusebian dogmas theological credence." p6

Therefore, I conclude that 70 weeks is the correct answer.

Ref: NKJV, The Chronological Gospels, ISBN-13:978-0-9895281-0-8, p 2-9