“Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,”
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar — when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and Traconitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene — Luke's sixfold dating locates John's ministry in approximately 28–29 CE by identifying the emperor, the Judean governor, and three regional tetrarchs. The political reality named in these verses is the world into which the kingdom of God is about to irrupt — Caesar's empire is the framework within which the Messiah's ministry unfolds.
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