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Timeline of the New Testament


New Testament Timeline

 
Date
 
Significant Event(s)
5 B.C.
 
Birth of Jesus Christ
  
Jesus was highly likely born within a two week period around the Biblical Holy Day known as the Feast of Trumpets. This Biblical Feast Day of worship and rejoicing before God occurred in 5 B.C. on Saturday, September 2nd.
c. 4 B.C.
 
Herod the Great Dies
  
Herod the Great, made ruler of Judea in 37 B.C. by the Roman Empire, dies in Jericho and is buried in Herodium, Judea.  Herod Antipas, Herod the Great's son, becomes tetrarch of Galilee and Perea.

Read Historian Josephus' account of Herod the Great's death.
View Map of Palestine under the Herods.

5 B.C.
to 30 A.D.
 
Jesus' life on earth as a flesh and blood human.

See pictures related to Jesus Christ's Life, Ministry and Death.

26 to 29 A.D.
 
John the Baptist
  
Duration of John's ministry, imprisonment and death as a martyr.

WHY did John the Baptist DOUBT Jesus was the Savior?

Fall 26 A.D.
to
Spring 30 A.D.
 
Duration of Jesus' Earthly Ministry

See where Jesus gave the Sermon on the Mount.
Picture of Mount of Olives where Jesus gave End Time prophecies.
View Shore of Galilee where Jesus performed most of his miracles.

   
Date
(A.D.)
 
Significant Event(s)
30
 
Jesus is Crucified, Dies and is Resurrected
  
Jesus is crucified on Wednesday, April 5th and is resurrected three days later at sunset of Saturday, April 9th.

What are the twelve reasons the arrest and conviction of Jesus was ILLEGAL?
See Picture of Garden of Gethsemane where Jesus was betrayed.
What were the LAST SEVEN STATEMENTS Jesus made from the cross?
View the Garden Tomb Jesus was buried in after his crucifixion.
Was Jesus REALLY dead for three complete days?

31 to 95
 
New Testament Written
  
Time span from the Apostles beginning to compile the teachings of Jesus (Acts 5, 6) to the writing of the Book of Revelation.  

See Map showing WHERE each Bible book was written.
View more detailed listing of WHEN each New Testament book was written.

33
 
Conversion of Saul (Paul) of Tarsus (Acts 8-9)
  
Saul, on his way to Damascus to seize Christians and bring them back to Jerusalem, is brought to repentance through a vision of Christ.  God transforms Saul into the Apostle Paul and uses him to mightily preach the gospel.

Visit our section dedicated to the Life and Missionary Journeys of the Apostle Paul!
Read how the death of Stephen, the first Christian martyr, led to Paul's conversion!
Read commentary on the fascinating, powerful life of the Apostle Paul!

38
 
Peter Baptizes First Gentile (Acts 10)
  
God sends Peter to baptize and preach the gospel to a gentile Roman centurion named Cornelius. God did this to show He is no respecter of persons and that His salvation is available not only to Jews but to all mankind.

See WHERE early New Testament events took place.

44 to 46
 
Period of Apostle Paul's First Missionary Journey
  
49
 
The Jerusalem Conference (Acts 15)
  

The "Jerusalem conference" is convened by the leaders of the early church to discuss whether circumcision is required for salvation.

49 to 52
 
Period of Apostle Paul's Second Missionary Journey
  
53 to 57
 
Period of Apostle Paul's Third Missionary Journey
  
58 to 68
 
Period of Apostle Paul's Final Journey and Martyrdom
  
70
 
Destruction of Jerusalem's Second Temple
  
Jerusalem's second temple (also known as Herod's temple) is destroyed by the Romans under General (later Emperor) Titus.  The destruction of the temple began on the 9th of Ab (Hebrew month), the very same day the destruction of Jerusalem's first temple began in 585 B.C.  The temple's demise was completed on Ab 10 in Hebrew year (civil) 3831, which corresponds to Sunday, August 5th in 70 A.D.

On what SINGLE DAY has most of Israel's GREATEST Disasters took place?
How BIG was the Roman Empire just before it destroyed Jerusalem's temple?
See Picture of the Dome of the Rock (possible location of Temple).
View Jerusalem's Wailing Wall where Jews today mourn the Temple's destruction.

 
Additional Bible Study Materials
What prophecies occurred
BETWEEN the Old and New Testaments?
What are the meaning
of NUMBERS in the Bible?
HOW did the Apostle Paul die?
Is Melchizedek
related to Jesus Christ?
WHY did God create man?
 


 
   
 
 

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