Metonic Cycle?

[Deafsilence]

Many understand that the Metonic Cycle is 19 years long and established certain leap year. But at the time of Christ, did the Jews really keep the Metonic Cycle. I understand that it was brought into the mix at a later time but some object and believe it was always used. The earliest accounts seem to indicate that a leap year occurred three times for every 8 years. If so, you could see that in 152 years, the metonic cycle would fall short by one leap year in that case. This should tell us that we should look for a conformance of the leap years to align such that 3 leap years always falls within the 8 year period. If not, then our criteria for appointing the leap years is probably flawed unless more relevant information can be brought forward to indicate further witness to an adherence to the metonic cycle the first century AD.