Timeline of the Bible · The Apostles
King Agrippa
King · From about AD 50
The Years
- Began AD 50
- “Indeed the years of Agrippa the younger are hence to be deduced”
- Ended After AD 70
- Past the end of Ussher’s Annals
- “Judea was taken in the year 21 of Agrippa”
The son of Herod Agrippa, before whom Paul answered for himself (Acts 26:1-2). Ussher counts his years from AD 50, since Josephus puts the beginning of the Jewish war in AD 66 in his seventeenth year. He reigned on past AD 70, the twenty-first year of his reign and the last the Annals date by it.
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.
