History of the Christian Church, Volume I: Apostolic Christianity. A.D. 1-100.

Ideler describes the result of his calculation (vol. II. 405) thus: I have made the calculation with every care .... The results ...

than John (comp. Luke 1:5, 26), was baptized and began to teach when he was "about thirty years of age."^116 Tiberius began to r ...

(4) The Census of QuiriniusLuke 2:2.^121 Luke gives us another chronological date by the incidental remark that Christ was born ...

and the Via Tiburtina.^127 Hence Luke might very properly call the census about the time of Christ’s birth "the first" (πρώτη) u ...

it would take several years to carry out such a decree, and its execution in the provinces would be modified according to nation ...

thirty and a half or thirty-one years from 781, we come back to a.u. 750 (b.c. 4) as the year of the Nativity. The Time of the C ...

The ancient tradition is of no account here, as it varied down to the fourth century. Clement of Alexandria relates that some re ...

art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?"^143 A similar inference from another passage, where the Jews speak of ...

the Jewish people, has been used as an argument in favor of a three years’ ministry: "Behold, these three year I come seeking fr ...

be harmonized with the Synoptical statement, which admits only of one natural interpretation.^159 It seems strange, indeed, that ...

Baptism a.u. 780 (Jan.?) a.d. 27. Length of Public Ministry (three years and three or four months) a.u. 780–783 a.d. 27–30. Cruc ...

it to fairy-land, as to blot out the Old and New Testament from history and resolve them into airy myths and legends.^162 The La ...

but delighting in the unfading beauties of God’s nature, reminded at every step of his wonderful dealings with his people, and s ...

interpreted it in his incomparable parables, which point from nature to nature’s God and from visible symbols to eternal truths. ...

hills from which he proclaimed the Sermon on the Mount, the Magna Charta of his kingdom, and to which he often retired for praye ...

and "not one stone is left upon another," in literal fulfilment of Christ’s prophecy;^172 but the massive foundations of Solomon ...

are struck by the identity of that people with their descendants in the ghettos of modern Rome, Frankfurt, and New York. Then th ...

the question, "Can any good come out of Nazareth, and "Out of Galilee ariseth no prophet."^179 He selected his apostles from pla ...

Jesus himself was not only the son of a carpenter, but during his youth he worked at that trade himself.^185 When he entered upo ...

the ruler of the synagogue. This custom suggested to Jesus the most natural way of opening his public ministry. When he returned ...