Acts 9:21

All who heard him were astounded and asked, “Isn’t this the man who wreaked havoc in Jerusalem on those who call on this name? And hasn’t he come here to take them as prisoners to the chief priests?”

Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain

WHERE: Jerusalem
WHEN: c. AD 34-36

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Jerusalem Judea · today Jerusalem

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

Tiberius emperor of Rome AD 14-37
Pontius Pilate prefect of Judea AD 26-36
Herod Antipas tetrarch of Galilee 4 BC – AD 39
Philip tetrarch of Ituraea 4 BC – AD 34
Caiaphas high priest AD 18-36

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

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