9 e Tiberius makes Drusus his colleague in power. 9 22
f There are computed to the present year, that is the 15th of Tiberius Caesar, from the year following the restoration of the temple, which was completed under the second year of Darius, king of the Persians, 548 years
10 f Drusus Caesar perished by poison. 10 23
2040 11 g Quintus Haterius, the active Populares orator, lives until almost his 90th year with the highest honours. * 11 24
h Servius Plautus, guilty of corrupting his son, kills himself in punishment. * from Solomon however, and the building of the first temple, 1060 years
201st Olympiad from Moses, and the Exodus of Israel out of Egypt, 1539 years
12 i Philip the Tetrarch called 12 25
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from Abraham and the reign of Ninus and Semiramis, 2044 years
"However in the fourth year of the 202nd olympiad, an eclipse of the sun happened, greater and more excellent than any that had happened before it; at the sixth hour, day turned into dark night, so that the stars were seen in the sky, and an earthquake in Bithynia toppled many buildings of the city of Nicaea." These things the aforementioned man (says).
The proof however of this matter, that in this year the Saviour suffered, the gospel of John presents, in which it is written that after the 15th year of Tiberius Caesar, the Lord preached for three years. Also Josephus, a native writer of the Jews, attests that around that time on the day of Pentecost, the priests first perceived an earth tremor and certain (loud) sounds. Then, that an unexpected voice suddenly burst out from the innermost part of the Temple saying: "Let us flee from this abode." However the aforementioned man writes that in the same year Pilate the governor secretly in the night set up images of Caesar in the temple, and from this arose the first cause of the rebellion and turmoil of the Jews.
from the flood until Abraham, 942 years
from Adam until the flood, 2242 years
202nd Olympiad
a Start of the 81st jubilee according to the Hebrews 16 b Jesus Christ the son of God , preaching the way of salvation to all, performs the miracles which were written in the Gospels. 16 29
17 c Jesus Christ the son of God , imparting the divine sacraments to his own disciples, commands that they announce (the opportunity and need for) conversion to God, to all peoples. 17 30
18 d Jesus Christ , according to the prophecies, which had been spoken about him beforehand, came to the Passion in the 18th year of Tiberius, at which time also we find these things written verbatim in other commentaries of the gentiles: an eclipse of the sun happened 1 , Bithynia shaken by earthquake, and in the city of Nicaea many buildings collapsed: all of which agree with what occurred in the Passion of the Saviour. Indeed Phlegon, who is an excellent calculator of olympiads, also writes about this, in his 13th book writing thus: 18 31
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a The first bishop of the Church of Jerusalem, James the brother of the Lord, is ordained by the Apostles.
(1) November 24, 29 AD. Note that paras b,c and d are merged in the Merton Ms.
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a From this point it must be considered, what a great number of calamities will have then oppressed the nation of the Jews. other recognised religions. 4 Indeed, when by a decree of the fathers, it had pleased them that the Christians be evicted from the City, Tiberius by an edict threatened accusers of the Christians with death: thus writes Tertullian in his Apologeticum . 5
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