61

 Suetonius Tranquillus, Lives of the Caesars, ed. and trans. John C. Rolfe, Suetonius, Volume I, Loeb Classical 

Library, (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1998), 1.88.1. 

62

 Emmerich, The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, p. 205, 367. 

63

 Emmerich, The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, p. 346. 

64

 This determination includes the widest range of possible dates for the start of Passover on Nisan 14, 

considering possible dates both by calculation and by observation based calendar systems. 

65

 Finegan, Handbook of Biblical Chronology, revised edition, no. 78 81, p. 38 39. 

66

 Finegan, Handbook of Biblical Chronology, revised edition,  no. 475 and tables 128 138, p. 280 287. 

67

 Finegan, Handbook of Biblical Chronology, revised edition, no. 570 and table 150, p. 330 331. 

68

 Finegan, Handbook of Biblical Chronology, revised edition, no. 583, p. 340 341. 

69

 Dr. E. Jerry Vardaman was a Biblical Archaeologist and New Testament Scholar. He was an editor and a 

contributing author of Chronos, Kairos, Christos and Chronos, Kairos, Christos II, two important books on Biblical 

chronology. Please note that Dr. Vardaman changed his mind about the theory that Tiberius' reign should be 

counted from his adoption as heir to Augustus. His later theory proposed a copyist error in Luke 3:1, which 

changed  in the second year of Tiberius  to  in the fifteenth year of Tiberius.  See Vardaman,  Jesus' Life: A 

New Chronology,  Chronos, Kairos, Christos, p. 59 61. 

70

 Dio Cassius,  Roman History, ed. Jeffrey Henderson, trans. Earnest Cary, Dio Cassius, Volume VI, Loeb 

Classical Library, (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2000), 55.10a.8 10. See also, 

Vardaman,  Jesus' Life: A New Chronology,  Chronos, Kairos, Christos, p. 58. 

71

 Dio,  Roman History, 55.9.5 10. See also, Vardaman,  Jesus' Life: A New Chronology,   Chronos, Kairos, 

Christos, p. 58 59. 

72

 Dio,  Roman History, 55.13.1a. See also, Vardaman,  Jesus' Life: A New Chronology,   Chronos, Kairos, 

Christos, p. 58 59. 

73

 Dio, Roman History, 55.13.1a. 

74

 Finegan, Handbook of Biblical Chronology, revised edition, no. 570, p. 330.  

75

 Dio Cassius, Roman History, ed. G. P. Goold, trans. Earnest Cary, Dio Cassius, Volume VII, Loeb Classical 

Library, (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1994), 56.30.5. 

76

 Dio, Roman History, 55.13.1a 2. 

77

 Finegan,  Handbook of Biblical Chronology, revised edition, no. 517, p. 300 301. See also, Ernest L Martin, 

 The Nativity and Herod's Death,  Chronos, Kairos, Christos, p. 90 91. 

78

 Finegan, Handbook of Biblical Chronology, revised edition, no. 183 and table 42, p. 86. 

79

 Finegan, Handbook of Biblical Chronology, revised edition, no. 165, p. 78. This is called the non accession year 

system. A partial year, of even a brief number of days, was counted as a full year. 

80

 Finegan, Handbook of Biblical Chronology, revised edition, no.583, p. 340. 

81

 This is called the accession year system, a common method of dating a ruler's reign. The year that the ruler 

came to power is numbered as the last year of the previous ruler's reign, but is referred to as the current ruler's 

 accession year.  See Finegan, Handbook of Biblical Chronology, revised edition, no. 161, p. 75. 

82

 Finegan, Handbook of Biblical Chronology, revised edition, no. 583, p. 340. Here Jack Finegan concludes that 

Luke would have counted the years of Tiberius' reign beginning with the first whole calendar year. His 

argument is that the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles are addressed to Theophilus (a Roman name 

and probably a Roman official), and so Luke would have followed the practice of Roman historians by 

counting whole calendar years. 

83

 Finegan, Handbook of Biblical Chronology, revised edition, no. 620, p. 362. 

84

 Vardaman,  Jesus' Life: A New Chronology,  Chronos, Kairos, Christos, p. 77 82. See also: Jerry Vardaman, 

 Were the Samaritan Military Leaders, Rufus and Gratus, at the Time of Herod's Death, the Later Roman 

Judean Governors Who Preceded Pontius Pilate?,   Chronos, Kairos, Christos II, (Macon, Georgia: Mercer 

University Press, 1998), p. 191 202. 

85

 Cf. Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews, 18.89, 18.224. 

86

 Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, 1.9.2. 

87

 Finegan, Handbook of Biblical Chronology, revised edition, no. 78 81, p. 38 39. 

88

 Finegan, Handbook of Biblical Chronology, revised edition, no. 165, p. 78. 

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