Appendix 179 Companion Bible: I. PARALLEL DATINGS

APPENDIX 179.

I.  PARALLEL DATINGS OF THE TIMES OF OUR LORD. II.  DATES OF "THE BEGETTING" AND THE NATIVITY, ETC. III.  "THE COURSE OF ABIA".

A.M. = Anno Mundi; that is to say, in the year of the world.
B.C. = Before Christ. Reckoned as from 4004 A.M.

A.C. = Anno Christi; that is to say, in the year of Christ. Reckoned from the Nativity, in 4000 A.M. and 749-750 A.U.C.

A.U.C. = Anno Urbis Conditoe; that is to say; the year in which the City (Rome) was founded.

I. PARALLEL DATINGS

OF
THE TIMES OF OUR LORD.

A.M.	B.C. – A.D.	A.C.	A.U.C.	YEARS OF THE REIGN OF AUGUSTUS (OCTAVIUS).	YEARS OF THE REIGN OF TIBERIUS.
3960	44		9
1	43		710
2	42		11
3	41		12
4	40		13
5	39		14   Herod declared king by the Romans, according to Josephus (Ant.xvii. 8 § 1), who states that his death took place thiryt-seven years later, and as he always reckoned his years from Nisan to Nisan (including initial and terminal fractions of Nisan as complete years), the death of Herod would be in 749-750 A.U.C., or 4-3 B.C.
6	38		15
7	37		16
8	36		17
9	35		18
3970	34		19
1	33		720
2	32		21
3	Battle of Actium   31		722	1st    year of Octavius.
4	30   Decree of Senate of Rome.		23	2
5	29		24	3
6	28		25	4
7	27		26	5   AUGUSTUS (Octavius) IMPERATOR
8	26		27	6
9	25		28	7
3980	24		29	8
1	23		730	9
2	22		31	10
3	21		32	11
4	20		33	12
5	19		34	13
6	18		35	14
7	17		36	15
8	16		37	16
9	15		38	17
3990	14		39	18
1	13		740	19
2	12		41	20
3	11		42	21
4	10		43	22
5	9		44	23
6	8		45	24
7	7		46	25
8	6		47	26
9	{5}		48	27
(See Appendix 50)   4000	THE NATIVITY 1st taxing or Census Luke 2:2 {4	YEARS OF THE  AGE OF THE LORD 0}	749 Herod d.c end of January 3 B.C.	28 Our Lord birth 15th Tisri = 29th September 4 B.C.
{1	{3	Quirinus’ First Governorship.  1}	750	29
{2	{2	2}	51	30
3	{1	3}	52	31
4004	0  A.D.	4	753	32  A.D. reckoning begins, owing to the mistake of Dionysius Exiguus in arranging the Calendar of the Christian Era in A.D. 532.
5	1	5	54	33
6	2	6	55	34
7	3	7	56	35
8	4	8	57	36
9	5	9	58	37
4010	6	10	59	38
1	7	11	760	39
2	8	12  Christ in the Temple	61	40
3	9	13	62	41
4	2nd Census (?) 10	14	63	42	YEARS OF THE REIGN OF TIBERIUS.
5	11	15	64	43
6	12	16	65	44  1st yr. of Tiberius’	1  joint reign with Augustus.
7	13	17	66	45	2
8	14	18	67	19th August   46 Augustus dies.	3 Tiberius alone.
9	15	19	68		4
4020	16	20	69		5
1	17	21	770		6
2	18	22	71		7
3	19	23	72		8
4	20	24	73		9
5	21	25	74		10
6	22	26	75		11
7	23	27	76		12
8	3rd Census (?)  24	28	77		13  3rd Census this year (?).
9	25	29	78		14
4030	26 The Ministry	30 of our	779 Lord	begins (Luke 3:23) in the	15th year of Tiberius.
1	27	31	780		16
2	28	32	81		17
ANNO MUNDI 4033	THE CRUCIFIXION 29	A.D.THE LORD 33	YEARS OF AGE.	A.U.C. ROMAN RECKONING. 782	THE 18th year of Tiberius.

1. ZUMPT fixes Quirinus’ (Cyrenius’) First Govenorship
   as 4 B.C. to 1 B.C.  Justin Martyr thrice says that our Lord was born
   under Quirinus (Apol.1.XXXIV, p.37; XLVI, p. 46; Dial. LXXVIII, p. 195.
   Clark’s ed.).

2. According to some, Augustus died August 19, A.D. 14. 
   Therefore if Tiberius’ co-regnancy was for two years before Augustus’ death
   his first year was 765 A.U.C. = 12 A.D.  His fifteenth year consequently
   was A.U.C. 779 = 26 A.D. = 4030 A.M. and A.C. 30.  for our Lord was
   thirty years of age when He begun His Ministry (Luke 3:23).  Clement
   of Alexandria gives the years of Augustus’ reign as being 43-46, according
   to different reckonings in his day.

3. According to Clement of Alexandria (c. A.D. 190-220)
   "Our Lord was born in the twenty-eighth year when first the census was
   taken every fourteen years, then the next would fall in A.D. 10, and the
   succeeding one would have been due A.D.24.