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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
(1871)
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS CONNECTED
WITH
THE LIFE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL.
by DAVID BROWN
Certainty in these dates is not to be
had, the notes of time in the Acts being few and vague. It
is only by connecting those events of secular history which
it records, and the dates of which are otherwise tolerably
known to us--such as the famine under Claudius Cæsar
(
Ac 11:28), the expulsion of the Jews from Rome by the
same emperor (
Ac 18:2), and the entrance of Porcius Festus upon his
procuratorship (
Ac 24:27), with the intervals specified between some
occurrences in the apostle's life and others (such as
Ac 20:31; 24:27; 28:30; and Ga 1:1-2:21) --that we can
thread our way through the difficulties that surround the
chronology of the apostle's life, and approximate to
certainty. Immense research has been brought to bear upon
the subject, but, as might be expected, the learned are
greatly divided. Every year has been fixed upon as the
probable date of the apostle's conversion from A.D. 31
[BENGEL] to A.D. 42 [EUSEBIUS]. But the weight of authority
is in favor of dates ranging between 35 and 40, a
difference of not more than five years; and the largest
number of authorities is in favor of the year 37 or 38.
Taking the former of these, to which opinion largely
inclines, the following Table will be useful to the student
of apostolic history:
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A.D. 37
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PAUL'S CONVERSION
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Ac 9:1.
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A.D. 40
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First Visit to Jerusalem
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Ac 9:26; Ga 1:18.
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A.D. 42-44
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First Residence at Antioch
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Ac 11:25-30.
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A.D. 44
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Second Visit to Jerusalem
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Ac 11:30; 12:25.
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A.D. 45-47
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FIRST MISSIONARY JOURNEY
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Ac 13:2; 14:26.
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A.D. 47-51
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Second Residence at Antioch
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Ac 14:28.
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Third Visit to Jerusalem
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Ac 15:2-30; Ga 2:1-10.
(on which see Notes)
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A.D. 51,53, or 54
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SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY
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Ac 15:36, 40; 18:22.
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A.D. 53 or 54
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Fourth Visit to Jerusalem
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Ac 18:21, 22.
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Third Residence at Antioch
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Ac 18:22, 23.
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A.D. 54-58
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THIRD MISSIONARY JOURNEY
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Ac 18:23; 21:15.
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A.D. 58
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Fifth Visit to Jerusalem
Arrest and Imprisonment at Cæsarea
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Ac 21:15; 23:35.
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A.D. 60 (Autumn)--
A.D. 61 (Spring)
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Voyage to and Arrival in Rome
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Ac 27:1; 28:16.
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A.D. 63
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Release from Imprisonment
At Crete, Colosse, Macedonia, Corinth, Nicopolis,
Dalmatia, Troas
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Ac 28:30.
1 &
2 Tim. and
Tit.
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A.D. 63-65, or 66, or possibly as late as A.D. 66-68
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Martyrdom at Rome
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