Timeline of the Bible · The Apostles
Paul Before Felix and Festus
Event · About AD 60–62
What the Bible Says
- “But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix” Acts 24:27
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
The Years
- Began AD 60
- “by whom he is brought in the night to Antipatris, and the next day to Cesarea”
- Ended AD 62
- “when he had received Portius Festus from Nero his successour, in the Province”
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.
