Timeline of the Bible · The Apostles
The Council at Jerusalem
Event · About AD 52
What the Bible Says
- “Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas” Galatians 2:1
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
The Years
- The Year AD 52
- “In a councel of the Apostles and Elders, held at Jerusalem”
Ussher takes Paul's going up "by revelation" (Galatians 2:2) for his going up to this council, fourteen years after he went up to see Peter (Galatians 1:18).
Dated by Archbishop James Ussher’s Annals of the World (1658), quoted as printed, whose dates were printed in the margins of King James Bibles for two centuries.
