SCRIPTORIA BIBLE

Acts 28:12

Putting in at Syracuse, we stayed there three days.

Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain

WHERE
Syracuse
WHEN
c. AD 60-62
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ON THE MAP

WHEN

c. AD 60-62

counted from the text

The book ends without saying how the case turned out.

WHO RULED

  • Nero emperor of Rome AD 54-68
  • Herod Agrippa II king of Judea AD 50-93
  • Porcius Festus procurator of Judea AD 59-62

MEANWHILE

  • AD 62-63 Italy

    Earthquake destroys part of Pompeii

    Seventeen years before Vesuvius finishes the job.

SOURCES
  • date — Acts 28:30 gives two full years of house arrest in Rome.
  • Nero — Tacitus, Annals XIII-XVI; Suetonius, Nero
  • Herod Agrippa II — Josephus, Jewish War II; Antiquities XX
  • Porcius Festus — Josephus, Antiquities XX.8-9
  • Earthquake destroys part of Pompeii — Tacitus, Annals XV.22; Seneca, Natural Questions VI

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