# Acts 2:41

> Those who embraced his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to the believers that day.

— Acts 2:41, Berean Standard Bible

## When

- c. AD 30 (counted from the text)
- Date source: The Ascension and Pentecost fall in the year of the crucifixion. Paul's chronology, anchored in Gallio's term (AD 51-52 by the Delphi inscription), puts the crucifixion in AD 30 or 33.

## Who ruled

- **Tiberius**, emperor of Rome, AD 14-37 · Source: Tacitus, Annals I-VI; Suetonius, Tiberius
- **Pontius Pilate**, prefect of Judea, AD 26-36 · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XVIII.3-4; Tacitus, Annals XV.44; the Caesarea inscription, which carries his name and office in stone
- **Herod Antipas**, tetrarch of Galilee, 4 BC – AD 39 · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XVII.8-XVIII.7
- **Philip**, tetrarch of Ituraea, 4 BC – AD 34 · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XVII.8, XVIII.4
- **Caiaphas**, high priest, AD 18-36 · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XVIII.2.2 and XVIII.4.3; the ossuary of "Joseph, son of Caiaphas," found in Jerusalem in 1990

## See also

- Acts 4:4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/4/4
- Acts 2:47 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/2/47
- John 14:12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/john/14/12
- Acts 16:31-34 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/16/31
- Acts 1:15 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/1/15
- Acts 2:37 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/2/37
- Acts 13:48 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/13/48
- Psalms 72:16-17 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/72/16

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/2/41
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