A. D. A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE. REMARKABLE PASSAGES. 333 34 35 37 38 39 40 Our Lord's crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension. The office of deacons instituted. The persecution in which St. Stephen was stoned. Philip, the deacon and evangelist, preaches at Samaria, and among others converts Simon Magus: as he did afterwards the Eunuch, and baptizes him. Saul, or St. Paul, is converted, and goes into Arabia. St. Paul returns out of Arabia to Damascus, where he preaches Christ: for which reason the Jews there sought to kill him. St. Paul escapes from Damascus to Jerusalem, whence after fifteen days time he goes to Cæsarea: thence to Tarsus. St. Peter converts Cornelius. Pilate having been banished A. D. 37. by the Emperor Caligula, to Vienne in France, now hangs himself. 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 Herod the tetrarch of Galilee was likewise this year banished by the same Emperor to Lyons in France. Barnabas is sent by the Apostles to Antioch. Barnabas fetches St. Paul from Tarsus to Antioch: where St. Luke was probably one of their disciples. Disciples were now first called Christians at Antioch. St. Paul and Barnabas come up to Jerusalem. St. Paul and Barnabas set forth from Antioch to preach, and come to Cyprus, and so to Antioch in Pisidia. St. Paul and Barnabas come to Iconium, Lystra, and Timothy was now converted. St. Paul and Barnabas return to Antioch in Syria. Now arises the controversy about circumcision at Antioch. St. Paul and Barnabas go up to Jerusalem about it, where a council is held, and a synodical or canonical epistle is agreed on. St. Peter, Paul, and Barnabas were now all together at Antioch: where Paul withstood Peter; and a dissension arose between Paul and Barnabas about taking John surnamed Mark with them. St. Paul with Silas and Timothy go through Phrygia, St. Paul goes from Thessalonica to Beroa and Athens, and so to Corinth; whence he is thought to have written his first Epistle to the Thessalonians. St. Paul being still at Corinth is now thought to have written his second Epistle to the Thessalonians. St. Paul leaving Corinth sails to Ephesus, whence he goes to Cæsarea, and so to the passover at Jerusalem. Thence he returns to Antioch in Syria, and through Galatia and Phrygia to Ephesus; where he now makes a long stay. St. Paul being still in Asia, probably at Ephesus, is now thought to write his first Epistle to the Corinthians, and also that to the Galatians. And at the end of this same year, or beginning of the next, he is thought to have written his second Epistle to the Corinthians. Leaving Ephesus on the account of Demetrius, he comes to Troas, and so through Macedonia into Greece, and probably into Corinth; whence he is now thought to have written his Epistle to the Ro mans. St. Paul leaving Greece goes to Troas, and sails to After two years, being had before Festus and King After three months stay at Malta, St. Paul comes to Syracuse, &c. and so at length to Rome, about February, in the seventh year of Nero. St. Paul having been now two whole years at Rome, wrote four Epistles, viz. to the Philippians, Ephesians, Colossians, and Philemon. Having now his liberty, St. Paul staid some time still in Italy, during which time he wrote the Epistle to the Hebrews. Y 65 67 68 96 98 St. Paul wrote his first Epistle to Timothy, and also that to Titus. St. Paul now returning to Rome again, is taken and kept a close prisoner. Now he wrote his second Epistle to Timothy. St. Paul, and also St. Peter, is said now to have suf fered martyrdom at or near Rome. St. John the Apostle wrote the Revelation; and, after Domitian's death, returned from the isle of Patmos to Ephesus. St. John did now write his Gospel, at the request of the bishops of Asia. |