Acts 9:24
but Saul learned of their plot. Day and night they watched the city gates in order to kill him.
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHEN
- c. AD 34-36
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
SEE ALSO
- 2 Corinthians 11:32 In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas secured the city of the Damascenes in order to arrest me.
- Acts 25:3 to grant them a concession against Paul by summoning him to Jerusalem, because they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.
- Acts 20:3 where he stayed three months. And when the Jews formed a plot against him as he was about to sail for Syria, he decided to go back through Macedonia.
- Acts 20:19 I served the Lord with great humility and with tears, especially in the trials that came upon me through the plots of the Jews.
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