A Short Chronology of Jesus’ Life

Metonic Cycle Year	BCE/CE	AM	Jesus Age	Description
14	-5/-4	3756		John the Baptist’s born in the spring of 4 BCE).
15	-4/-3	3757		Jesus’ born 6 months later in the autumn of 4 BCE.
16	-3/-2	3758	1	Jesus became a year old on Tishri 1 (3 BCE).
17	-2/-1	3759	2	Sabbatical Year (2 BCE/1 BCE).
18	-1/1	3760	3	On January 10, 1 BCE a total lunar eclipse commenced shortly before midnight. About January 23, after waiting 3 months, Herod received a message from Augustus authorizing him to either exile or execute his son Antipater. In physical and emotional distress Herod attempted suicide. Antipater thinking his father was dead then tries to bribe his way out of prison. On hearing of the matter, an angry Herod sent his bodyguards to execute Antipater by beheading. Five days later, Herod died at Jericho about January 28, 1 BCE.
19	1/2	3761	4
1	2/3	3762	5
2	3/4	3763	6
3	4/5	3764	7
4	5/6	3765	8
5	6/7	3766	9	Sabbatical Year (6/7 CE). New Cycle Jubilee 11 beginning on Atonement (September 22, 6 CE).
6	7/8	3767	10
7	8/9	3768	11
8	9/10	3769	12	At age 12, Jesus and his family went up to Jerusalem for Passover (Luke 2:41-42). When Joseph and Mary discovered they had left Jesus behind at Jerusalem they returned and found him at the Temple (Luke 2:43-46).
9	10/11	3770	13
10	11/12	3771	14
11	12/13	3772	15
12	13/14	3773	16	Sabbatical Year (13/14 CE).
13	14/15	3774	17
14	15/16	3775	18
15	16/17	3776	19
16	17/18	3777	20
17	18/19	3778	21
18	19/20	3779	22
19	20/21	3780	23	Sabbatical Year (20/21 CE).
1	21/22	3781	24
2	22/23	3782	25
3	23/24	3783	26
4	24/25	3784	27
5	25/26	3785	28
6	26/27	3786	29	John the Baptist aged 30 begins his ministry at Passover time (April 9-16, 27 CE. Jesus was in his 30^th year ( inclusive reckoning) when baptized by John on Pentecost (June 1, 27 CE). Jesus began his “40 days and 40 nights” fast in late spring or early summer in 27 CE.
7	27/28	3787	30	Sabbatic year. Jesus became 30 years old. He began his public ministry on the 1^st Passover (March 29, 28) of his ministry. At the Temple he drove out money changers and others doing business (John 2:13-15). He observed Pentecost, Sunday, May 23 (Sivan 10), at Nazareth.
8	28/29	3788	31	2^nd Passover (April 16, 29 CE) of his ministry.
9	29/30	3789	32	3^rd Passover (April 5, 30 CE) of his ministry (Luke 22:1-15; John 6:4).
10	30/31	3790	33	Jesus became 33 years old in the autumn of 30 CE. At the Crucifixion, the 4^th Passover (April 25, 31 CE) of his ministry (Nisan 14), he was 33½ years old. In 31 CE the high priest Caiaphas declared a weather-related postponement of the New Sacred Year by 30 days (one month). This intercalation was necessary, due to the cold spring weather, to ensure the barley harvest would mature and ripen before Pentecost. Thus Passover, Nisan 14, fell on Wednesday, April 25 rather than on March 26. The Babylonian Talmud in Tractate Sanhedrin, one of ten tractates of Seder Nezikin, explains how the weather affected the proclamation of the new year (Tractate Sanhedrin 2.2); (Danby, H., 1930, p. 31).

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