Timeline of the Bible · The Life of Christ
John Preaches in the Wilderness
Event · About AD 26
What the Bible Says
- “in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar” Luke 3:1
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
The Years
- The Year AD 26
- “came the word of the Lord unto John the son of Zacharias in the desert”
Ussher counts the fifteenth year from Tiberius's reigning with Augustus (Luke 3:1), and calls it the thirtieth year of the Lord's age, so the autumn the margin dates AD 26.
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.
