Are you teaching the New Testament Overview this year and want to add dates? But you don’t know where to get dates?
I am opening my personal notes and sharing them with you. Unless noted, the dates I am using is coming from the book, Annals of World History by Bishop James Ussher.
BC or BCE – Before Christ or Before Common Era
AD – Latin translation “In the year of our Lord”
Let’s look at events from the birth of John to the start of Jesus’ ministry.
New Testament Dates Part 1
- Birth of John
- 6 BC in the autumn (Ussher) to 2 BC (others)
- I believe John was conceived late in May/early June.
- I teach John was born on the first day of Passover and circumcised on the eighth day of that holiday.
- Birth of Jesus
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- 5 BC in the autumn(Ussher) to 1 BC (others)
- I believe Jesus was conceived during the Feast of Lights
- I teach Jesus was born on the first day of Feast of Tabernacles and circumcised on the eighth day of that holiday.
- 4 BC in the winter, Jesus was circumcised (Ussher)
- Egypt
- Flight to Egypt 4 BC
- Herod died 3 BC in the winter, others say spring of the year
- Return to Nazareth 3 BC
- Jesus in Jerusalem
- 8 AD in the Spring
- Age 12
- To celebrate Passover
- This was the Second Temple remodeled by Herod the Great
- John Preached
- 26 AD
- Baptized those who repented
- Jesus was Baptized
- 27 AD winter
- Celebrated on the Christian calendar on January 6.
- Jesus age 30
- The 12 Apostles
- 30-31 AD
- Disciple = Learner who imitates his teacher
- Apostle = Eye witness, appointed and sent
- Jesus Taught
- 30-33 AD
- Love God, quoting Deuteronomy 6:4-5
- Love your neighbor, quoting Levites 19:18
This brings us to the first few months of Jesus’ ministry. I will be posting more dates throughout the next few weeks, alternating between Old Testament and New Testament.
If you have other dates, I would appreciate you sharing them with me and their sources 🙂
May the Lord bless you as you teach the timeline to your students,
Dianna
