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Meeting · The Apostles and the Early ChurchAD 50

The council at Jerusalem frees the Gentiles from the law

Dated from the sources quoted below

True span4004 BC – AD 100
Beginnings · 4004 BC – 1996 BC · 12 eventsBeginnings4004 BC – 1996 BCThe Patriarchs · 1996 BC – 1635 BC · 34 eventsPatriarchs1996 BC – 1635 BCEgypt and the Exodus · 1635 BC – 1451 BC · 19 eventsExodus1635 BC – 1451 BCConquest and Settlement · 1451 BC – 1400 BC · 7 eventsConquest1451 BC – 1400 BCThe Judges · 1405 BC – 1095 BC · 13 eventsJudges1405 BC – 1095 BCThe United Kingdom · 1095 BC – 975 BC · 38 eventsUnited Kgdm1095 BC – 975 BCIsrael and Judah · 933 BC – 721 BC · 27 eventsIsrael & Judah933 BC – 721 BCJudah Alone · 721 BC – 586 BC · 22 eventsJudah alone721 BC – 586 BCThe Exile · 586 BC – 538 BC · 7 eventsExile586 BC – 538 BCReturn and Restoration · 538 BC – 400 BC · 13 eventsReturn538 BC – 400 BCBetween the Testaments · 400 BC – 4 BC · 8 eventsBetween400 BC – 4 BCThe Life of Jesus · 6 BC – AD 33 · 42 eventsJesus6 BC – AD 33The Apostles and the Early Church · AD 30 – AD 100 · 29 eventsThe ChurchAD 30 – AD 100AD 30 — The Spirit comes at PentecostAD 35 — Saul is met on the road to DamascusAD 37 — Paul's first visit to Jerusalem as a believerAD 44 — Herod Agrippa kills James and imprisons PeterAD 50 — The council at Jerusalem frees the Gentiles from the lawAD 51 — The second journey: Macedonia and PhilippiAD 52 — Eighteen months at Corinth; Paul before GallioAD 54 — Three years at Ephesus; the riot of the silversmithsAD 55 — Paul writes to Corinth, Galatia and RomeAD 58 — Paul is seized in the temple courtsAD 60 — Two years at Caesarea; Paul appeals to CaesarAD 61 — The voyage to Rome and the wreck at MaltaAD 63 — Two years in Rome, preaching without hindranceAD 66 — James the Lord's brother is martyred in JerusalemAD 67 — Paul is put to death in RomeAD 95 — John sees the Revelation on PatmosAD 96 — Letters to the seven churches of AsiaPeter and John heal the lame man at the temple gate — placed by its order in the narrativeAnanias and Sapphira — placed by its order in the narrativeStephen is stoned; Saul consents — placed by its order in the narrativePhilip and the Ethiopian official — placed by its order in the narrativePeter is sent to Cornelius at Caesarea — placed by its order in the narrativeThe disciples are first called Christians at Antioch — placed by its order in the narrativeRelief is carried from Antioch to Judea — placed by its order in the narrativePaul and Barnabas sail to Cyprus and Galatia — placed by its order in the narrativePaul at the Areopagus in Athens — placed by its order in the narrativePaul's farewell to the Ephesian elders at Miletus — placed by its order in the narrativePeter is martyred at Rome — placed by its order in the narrativeJerusalem and the temple are destroyed by the Romans — placed by its order in the narrative
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Opening words from the World English Bible (public domain); the passage list is in-house

Who and where

Names and references: STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · coordinates: OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding · CC BY 4.0

How we know the date

ISBE's New Testament chronology (1915) gives AD 50.

Written in-house from the sources below · every year is a quotation

The sources, word for word

“The Apostolic Council preceded the second journey and may be dated about 50 AD--14 years subsequent to Paul's first visit to Jerusalem (37 AD) in the third year after his conversion in 35 AD.”

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · CHRONOLOGY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT · gives AD 50

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