2007-04-21 20:46:19 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In Jesus' day, there was not a standardized dating system like there is today. This is how Luke identified the year John the Baptist began preaching to set the stage for Jesus' ministry-
Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene, Luke 3.1
2007-04-21 20:59:27 · answer #1 · answered by Hawk 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He didn't know, nobody did, as the counting system came much later, even then it was the late 1880's before an average person had any idea what year it was, or even cared,
2007-04-22 20:48:08 · answer #2 · answered by Boston Bluefish 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't know, but my friend jesus thinks its 1987 again, but can't talk for any other jesuseses out there.
2007-04-22 03:54:42 · answer #3 · answered by nevserve 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, perhaps in the year 30, he thought it was 3790. I am basing this on the Jewish way of reckoning years.
2007-04-22 03:51:36 · answer #4 · answered by Heron By The Sea 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
year 0, historians in recent times are the ones who gave the year numbers
2007-04-22 03:49:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jee obviously it wasn't the year of The Spelling...!
2007-04-22 03:56:30 · answer #6 · answered by Dee 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What is Time or Dates to immortals?
2007-04-22 03:54:41 · answer #7 · answered by Starjumper the R&S Cow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hevisited india after adi shankrachrya got enlightenment,so around 2600 yrs. from the present day.
2007-04-22 03:52:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Good question.
2007-04-22 04:02:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋