Acts 10:20

So get up! Go downstairs and accompany them without hesitation, because I have sent them.”

Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain

ON THE MAP

WHEN

c. AD 40-44

counted from the text

Cornelius, and the church ceasing to be only Jewish.

WHO RULED

MEANWHILE

AD 41 Italy

Caligula is assassinated and Claudius takes power

The order to set up the emperor's statue in the Temple in Jerusalem dies with him.

SOURCES

date — Acts 11:28 announces the famine of Claudius's reign, which Tacitus (Annals XII.43) and Josephus (Antiquities XX.2) put in AD 46-48.
Caligula — Suetonius, Caligula; Josephus, Antiquities XVIII-XIX
Claudius — Suetonius, Claudius; Tacitus, Annals XI-XII
Herod Agrippa I — Josephus, Antiquities XVIII.6-XIX.8, which dates his death to AD 44
Caligula is assassinated and Claudius takes power — Suetonius, Caligula 58 and Claudius 10; Josephus, Antiquities XIX

Cornelius receives the Spirit AD 40 (approximate date)

A Roman officer and his household receive the Spirit before any Jewish rite. It is the decision the church spends the next chapters trying to understand.