Timeline of the Bible · The Life of Christ
The Birth of John the Baptist
Event · About 3 BC
The Years
- The Year 3 BC
- Six months before the Lord (Luke 1:36). Ussher: 5 BC
- “When the time of Elizabeth was come that she should be delivered, she brought forth a son”
In the spring of 3 BC, six months before the Lord was born (Luke 1:26, 36), “in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea” (Luke 1:5). Ussher puts it in the spring of 5 BC, six months before his date for the Lord’s birth.
Where the year isn’t Ussher’s, the text sets it, and the note says how. Ussher’s years and sentences are from his Annals of the World (1658), quoted as printed.
