14-15 Appendix: Chronology of Paul’s Life

Standard Chronology Of Paul's Life

John Robinson's Chronology Of Paul's Life (2)

AD 35 Paul’s conversion

36-38 In Arabia ⁽¹⁾

38-43 Preaching in Damascus and Jerusalem

44-46 Working in Antioch and Syria

46-48 First missionary journey

49-50 Jerusalem Conference

50-52 Second missionary journey

53-57 Third missionary journey

57-59 Arrest- Jerusalem-Caesarea

59-62 To Rome; first imprisonment

63-66 Release; travels in Asia, Greece, Spain

64-68 Nero’s persecution of the Christians

67 Arrest, imprisoned in a dungeon in Rome

68 Final trial; executed.

AD33 Conversion

35 First visit to Jerusalem

46 Second [famine-relief] visit to Jerusalem

47-48 First missionary journey

48 Council of Jerusalem

49-51 Second missionary journey

52-57 Third missionary journey

57 Arrival in Jerusalem

57-59 Imprisonment in Caesarea

60-62 Imprisonment in Rome

Notes

(1) " Arabia" is from the word 'Arabah', and occurs in the LXX in Dt. 2:8; 3:17; 4:49 to mean simply the wilderness. Since Paul went there from Damascus, it has been suggested that he mixed with the Damascene Essene group. There are extensive parallels between the Qumran texts and the letter to the Hebrews, which could lend support to this suggestion- as if Paul wrote to an audience he knew.

(2) J.A.T. Robinson, Redating The New Testament (London: SCM, 1976) pp. 52,53.