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Event · The Apostles and the Early ChurchAD 58

Paul is seized in the temple courts

Dated from the sources quoted below

True span4004 BC – AD 100
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the events of this period, each at its year — this one outlinedplaced only by its order in the narrativethe whole thread →

Told in

Acts 21:27–36When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him,Acts 22:22–29They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice and said, “Rid the earth of this fellow, for he isn’t fit to live!”
Opening words from the World English Bible (public domain); the passage list is in-house

Who and where

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How we know the date

ISBE's New Testament chronology (1915) gives AD 58.

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

The sources, word for word

“Paul's arrest in Jerusalem 2 years before the accession of Festus (Ac 24:27) would fall in the spring of 58 AD.”

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · CHRONOLOGY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT · gives AD 58

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