Timeline of the Bible · The Life of Christ
Jesus Christ
Life · About 3 BC–AD 31
The Years
- Born 3 BC
- The early church’s date for the birth, with Herod’s death in 1 BC. Ussher: 5 BC
- “in the fulnesse of time was born of the most blessed Virgin Mary”
- Ascended AD 31
- The Crucifixion in AD 31, by Daniel’s seventy weeks. Ussher: AD 33
- “while they beheld he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight”
Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, and rose again the third day (1 Corinthians 15:3-4); he shewed himself alive forty days, and was taken up (Acts 1:3, 9). Born in the autumn of 3 BC, as the early church dated it (see The Birth of Jesus Christ; Ussher has 5 BC), he “began to be about thirty years of age” (Luke 3:23) at his baptism in AD 27, and was crucified in AD 31, after three years and a half, at thirty-three and a half.
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.
