So Jesus was born prior to 4 B. C. How much prior we are not sure.
Read the Bible for the sake of learning, not simply to accomplish your next reading. Luke reports that when Paul the prisoner got to Fair Havens on the island of Crete (Acts 27:8) the weather had become dangerous for sea travel “because the Fast had already gone by” (Acts 27:9). Enoch (“dedicated”) – son of Jared who was taken up to God without dying 8. Learn about the important and fascinating people in the New Testament! If this is so, then for Paul to omit the second Jerusalem visit as "Reconstruction II" says he did would jeopardize his integrity and his authority with the Galatians. The following chronological list is adapted from The Chronological Bible.
Miracles by the sea. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1994), 480-481. How we date the first and third visits to Jerusalem as well as Paul’s conversion depends on how we relate these Jerusalem visits to those reported in Paul’s letter to the Galatians. Mahalalel – son of Kenan, descendant of Seth 6. 2) Galatians 2:1–10 pictures a private meeting between Paul and Barnabas on the one hand and the “pillar” apostles on the other. Highlight verses, take notes and bookmark and more with a personalized account. Working backwards from this date, we may say that Paul’s arrest in Jerusalem (Acts 21:33) occurred in 57, some two years (Acts 24:27) before the coming of Festus. According to Matthew 26:19, Mark 14:12 and Luke 22:15, the Last Supper was the Passover meal, a yearly celebration of Israel’s escape from Egypt (cf. We may conclude then that Jesus was born about 7 B. C. This fits with Matthew 2:16 which seems to say Jesus was born at least two years prior to Herod’s death in 4 B. C. There is no clear evidence as to the day and month of his birth. Exodus 34:22; Deuteronomy 16:9ff) fifty days after the Passover. Acts 24:27 describes an event which helps us date the events in the rest of the book of Acts. Galatians - 55. Plan Length: 92 days. 2. Click here for more information and the link to our online services. According to Matthew 2:1, Jesus was born “in the days of Herod the King.” But we learn from the Jewish historian Josephus that Herod died in the spring of 4 B. C. (Antiquities XVII, 8, 1). These two alternative reconstructions of what happened can be tabularized as follows: Let us summarize the main arguments for each of these ways of relating Galatians and Acts.
That would make Galatians Paul’s first letter. Second Timothy - 66. Say a short prayer to God before you begin, asking the Holy Spirit to give you wisdom and understanding, then be refreshed by the words you read! If we add 30 to the suggested date of birth we get A. D. 24. 3) Acts 11:30 pictures Barnabas as the leader of the Barnabas/Paul team since his name is first (as in 12:25, 13:1–2, 7 cf. Josephus, a Jewish historian alive at the time, gives us enough information so that we can locate the famine sometime between the years 46 and 48 (Antiquities XX, 5, 2). Moses’s legendary miracles before Pharaoh, along with his doubts and insecurities, make him the great mortal hero of the Old Testament. Jude - 68. Not long afterwards, according to Eusebius (Ecclesiastical History III, 5, 3), the church in Jerusalem received an oracle warning them to leave that doomed city and settle in Pella, one of the cities of the Decapolis east of the Jordan. ------------. John - c. 85. Romans - 57-58. Porcius Festus replaces Felix as the procurator of Judea. While no arrangement of these books can be made with absolute confidence, the following dates are sufficiently reliable to serve the purpose of the Bible student. Before we tabularize these two possible chronologies, it will be helpful to consider one more date which we can fix with high probability, namely Paul’s arrival in Corinth on his second missionary journey (Acts 18:1). Between Paul’s departure from Corinth on the second missionary journey (Acts 18:18) in the autumn of 51 and his arrival in Corinth on the third missionary journey (Acts 20:2) in the late winter of 56, there are five years of activity which cannot be given exact dates. That would be much too late as a date for Jesus’ birth.
If this is so then would not Paul surely include a reference to the Jerusalem Council (namely Galatians 2:1–10) in his recollections since its outcome supported his own stance on circumcision in the letter to the Galatians?
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And if we assume that there was not a long time between the beginning of John’s ministry and the beginning of Jesus’ ministry then Jesus probably began in 27 or 28. Methuselah (“man of the dart”) – son of Enoch, grandfather of Noah 9. Copyright © 2020 Grace Fellowship Church All Rights Reserved. Therefore assigning absolute dates is less important than knowing the sequence of events which may have influenced each other. Beginning of Jesus’ public ministry (Luke 3:23), Paul’s first Jerusalem visit (Acts 9:26-30), Paul’s second (famine) visit to Jerusalem (Acts 11:30), Paul’s first missionary journey (Acts 13:4-14:28), Paul’s third Jerusalem visit (Jerusalem Council) (Acts 15:1-29), Paul’s stay in Ephesus on third missionary journey, Paul winters in Corinth (Acts 20:3; I Corinthians 16:6), Paul celebrates Passover at Philippi (Acts 20:6), Paul arrives in Jerusalem and is imprisoned (Acts 21:15ff), Paul is sent to Rome after two years in prison in Caesarea (Acts 24:27, 27:2), Paul lives two years in Rome (Acts 28:30), John Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary.
But in the description Paul gives of the visit in Galatians 2:1–10, he sees himself as the leader of the team.