Acts 11:17
So if God gave them the same gift He gave us who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to hinder the work of God?”
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHEN
- c. AD 40-44
WHEN
c. AD 40-44
counted from the text
Cornelius, and the church ceasing to be only Jewish.
WHO RULED
- Caligula emperor of Rome AD 37-41
- Claudius emperor of Rome AD 41-54
- Herod Agrippa I king of Judea AD 41-44
MEANWHILE
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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
SEE ALSO
- Acts 10:47 “Can anyone withhold the water to baptize these people? They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have!”
- Romans 9:20-26 But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?” …
- Job 33:13 Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?
- Daniel 4:35 All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or…
- Acts 15:8-9 And God, who knows the heart, showed His approval by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as He did to us. …
- Romans 9:15-16 For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” …
- Romans 11:34-36 “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?” …
Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0
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