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It was believed that, based on the Anno Mundi calendar, Jesus was born in the year 5500 (5500 years after the world was created) with the year 6000 of the Anno Mundi calendar marking the end of the world.
Jesus’ crucifixion probably occurred on Friday, April 3, A.D. 33. Luke 3:1–3 tells us that John the Baptist, Jesus’ forerunner, began his ministry “in the 15 th year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar.”
- Wyatt Graham
- To Subject the World to Humanity (Hebrews 2:5) Jesus was born to subject the world to come to us, not to the angels. That’s what Hebrews 2:5 says: “For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking.”
- to Bring many sons to Glory by Tasting Death for Everyone (Hebrews 2:5–10) Jesus came to bring sons and daughters to glory by tasting death for everyone.
- To be made perfect by suffering, so that he could sanctify us (Hebrews 2:10c–11) Jesus was born to make humans holy and to sanctify us. It is fitting that God “should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.
- To Adopt us into Jesus’s Family (Hebrews 2:12–13) Jesus was born to be our brother, and so bring us into the family of God. Jesus is our brother. God is our father.
- Not in Year Zero
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- 6-7 B.C.?
- 3-4 B.C.?
- 2-3 B.C.?
- The Gospel of Luke
- The Fathers Know Best
- What Now?
There is a good reason why Jesus wasn't born in Year Zero: There wasn't one. The sequence of years before Christ ends at 1 B.C. and the A.D. series picks up the very next year with A.D. 1. This is a bit surprising to us, since we're used to working with number lines that have a zero on them, but zero wasn't a concept on the intellectual scenewhen o...
The guy who developed the way we reckon years was a 6th-century monk named Dionysius Exiguus("Dennis the Short"). He apparently thought Christ was born in 1 B.C. (actually, it's a bit more complex than that, but we'll keep this simple). Today most think this date is a little too late and that the evidence supports a date a few years earlier.
For a little more than a century, the idea has been popular that Jesus was born in 6-7 B.C. The reasoning goes like this: Jesus was born late in the reign of Herod the Great, who died in 4 B.C. Furthermore, the wise men saw the star rise in the east two years before they came to visit Jerusalem, where they met Herod. Back up two years from 4 B.C. a...
Let's take the same logic as above and plug in the more likely date of Herod's death. As we saw in a previous post, the evidence points to him dying in 1 B.C. So . . . back up two years from that and you get 3 B.C. Back up another year for cushion and you get 4 B.C. Thus: 3-4 B.C. That's not an unreasonable estimate, but there are two problems with...
This date would be indicated if we start with Herod's death in 1 B.C. and then, taking into account the factors named above, backed up only oneyear, suggesting 2 B.C. Then, if we back up another year to allow for the fact Herod didn't die immediately, that would suggest 3 B.C. So, sometime between 2-3 B.C. would be reasonable, based on what we read...
Although Luke offers some helpful clues about the timing of Jesus' birth, we don't know enough to make full use of them. The date of the enrollment ordered by Augustus is notoriously controversial, for example, and too complex to go into here. However, later indications he gives in his gospel are quite interesting. He records, for example, that Joh...
There is a startling consensus among early Christian sources about the year of Jesus' birth. Here is a table adapted from Jack Finegan's excellent Handbook of Biblical Chronology(p. 291) giving the dates proposed by different sources: As you can see, except for a few outliers (including our influential friend, Dionysius Exiguus), there is strong su...
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Aug 21, 2023 · Jesus defeated death when he rose from the grave three days later (e.g. Matt. 28:1-10). Propitiation, redemption, justification, and reconciliation are the key aspects of Jesus earning salvation for sinners. The New Testament is clear that each concept is important to understand the crucifixion.
Jan 4, 2022 · Matthew 2:1 states that Jesus was born during the days of Herod the king. Since Herod died in 4 B.C., we have a parameter to work with. Further, after Joseph and Mary fled Bethlehem with Jesus, Herod ordered all the boys 2 years old and younger in that vicinity killed.
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Oct 14, 2024 · While many scholars believe Jesus was born sometime between 4 BC and 6 BC, there is no definitive historical evidence that pinpoints the exact year of his birth.
