Acts 9:13

But Ananias answered, “Lord, many people have told me about this man and all the harm he has done to Your saints in Jerusalem.

Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain

ON THE MAP

WHEN

c. AD 34-36

counted from the text

The conversion of Saul, dated by the count he himself gives in a letter.

WHO RULED

SOURCES

date — Counted back from Galatians 1:18 and 2:1, which give three years and then fourteen between the conversion and the Council of Jerusalem.
Tiberius — Tacitus, Annals I-VI; Suetonius, Tiberius
Pontius Pilate — Josephus, Antiquities XVIII.3-4; Tacitus, Annals XV.44; the Caesarea inscription, which carries his name and office in stone
Herod Antipas — Josephus, Antiquities XVII.8-XVIII.7
Philip — Josephus, Antiquities XVII.8, XVIII.4
Caiaphas — Josephus, Antiquities XVIII.2.2 and XVIII.4.3; the ossuary of "Joseph, son of Caiaphas," found in Jerusalem in 1990

The conversion of Saul AD 34 (approximate date)

The persecutor goes blind on the road and spends three days without sight. The man who baptizes him is one of those he was coming to arrest.