The dates given herewith have been collated from the chart which accompanies this volume.
Birth--about time of the Feast of Tabernacles Fall B.C. 2
His baptism [Luke III. 1 and 23] Summer " 29
Feast of Tabernacles, see} Thursday, Oct. 9th " 32 John VII. 2 and 14 }
Completed 3 years of ministry.} Parable of fig-tree, barren } " 32 for 3 years, see Luke 13, 6 }
Feast of dedication Thursday, Dec. 18th " 32
Ministry lasted 3½ years, or } Fall of A.D. 29 to Spring 33 "one-half a WEEK" of 7 years}
The dates here given are the result of a geometric plotting of the facts given in the works of Flavius Josephus:--see chart with this volume.
Made Governor of Galilee when } 18 years old (not 15) and in } " 54 the 9th year of Hyrcanus II. }
Married Mariamne } Captured Jerusalem } " 37
Battle of Actium in 7th year of his reign " 31
Hyrcanus II. put to death } Herod recrowned by Caesar } " 30
Alexander and Aristobulus put to death " 4
Total eclipse of the Moon January 9th " 1
[See "Eclipses Past and Future," by Johnson]
This government was founded by a priest named Mattathias, who had five sons named respectively:--John, Simon, Judas, Eleazar, and Jonathan. The dynasty lasted 130 years and was succeeded by the Idumean dynasty of Herod the Great. The dates here given result from a geometric plotting of the facts given by Josephus and the books of the Maccabees.
The feast of lights instituted November 26th " 165
REIGNS OF THE CHALDEAN AND MEDO-PERSIAN KINGS.
These dates have been established after careful study of the works of Herodotus, Thucydides, Ctesias, Josephus, Berosus, Manetho, Ptolemy, Diodorus, Julius Africanus, Eusebius, Egibi tablets; also Annalistic tablet of Cyrus and "Records of the Past."
B.C. Reigned. Nabopolassar began to reign 626 21 years
Nabonadios, alone } 556 14 Nabonadios and Belshazzar } 541 3 --- 17 years
Cyrus and Darius } 538 2 Cyrus alone } 536 7 --- 9 "
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