From: Robert Jewett, A Chronology of Pauls Life.
Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1979, pp. 99ff.,
and final chart inside back cover
Conversion | October 3 or 8, 34 |
Three-Year Timespan | October, 34 October, 37 |
Escape from Aretas | AugustOctober, 37 |
First Jerusalem Visit | October, 37 |
Fourteen-Year Timespan | October, 37October, 51 |
Pauls Arrival in Corinth | JanuaryFebruary, 50 |
1 & 2 Thessalonians written | 50 |
Departure from Corinth | August, 51 |
Ephesians written | JanuaryJuly, 51 |
Apostolic Conference | AugustOctober, 51 |
Galatians written | 53 |
Philippians written | Early part of 55 |
Corinthian correspondence | Spring, 55summer, 56 |
Imprisonment (affliction in Asia, 2 Cor 1:8) and writing of Philemon, Colossians | Winter, 5556 |
Last of Corinthian letters written | 56 |
Missionizing as far round as Illyricum (Rom 15:19) | Summer, 56 |
Romans written | Winter 5657 |
Departure from Philippi | April 15, 57 |
Arrival in Jerusalem | June, 57 |
Two-Year Caesarean Imprisonment | June, 57June, 59 |
Hearing before Festus | Mid-July, 59 |
Departure from Fair Havens | October 15, 59 |
Three Months on Malta | November 59February, 60 |
Arrival in Rome | Early March, 60 |
Execution of Paul | March, 62 |
(This chronology leaves open the time frame from October, 51 to April, 57, for the travels and letter writing that can be reconstructed from the primary evidence in the Pauline epistles.) |