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Position:Home>History> What year did Jesus think it was?Question: What year did Jesus think it was!? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: During that period of history, years were usually measured by rulers!. As the fifth year of the reign of Caesar Augustus, or the twenty-fifth year of the reign of Herod the greater!. About forty years before the Christ was born, Julius Caesar reformed the Roman Calendar!. It still wasn't an accurate calendar, but it was much better than the one he scrapped!. At that time in Rome, the dominant method of identifying years was to name the two consuls who held office!. Since Jesus lived in a country that had been conquered by Rome, he probably knew the Roman year!. The traditional date for the founding of Rome of April 21, 753 BC, was initiated by Varro, a Roman scholar and writer!. While he may have been wrong, the calendar took its year from his writing!. Some Romans used that date as year one, so that it would have been around the year 750 that Jesus was born!. He lived in Israel, however, and was certainly familiar with the Jewish Calendar!. That calendar was not standardized until the Fourth Century, when Hillel II established a fixed calendar based on mathematical and astronomical calculations!. Still, it would have been the year 3761 or thereabouts when Jesus was born!. It was probably not as much an issue to know what year it was, as what month!. Holidays, particularly Religious Holidays, occurred on the same day in a certain month, regardless of the year!. Knowing the month and the day was important so that religious observances could be kept in accordance with the Law of Moses!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Jesus was running on the Jewish calendar so it would have been somewhere around 3760!. If you google up 'Jewish calendar in time of Christ' there are several excellent links that explain the beginnings of the Jewish calendar - also the fact that it is the most accurate calendar in the world!. NASA had to adopt some of the Jewish methods of reckoning time to make their calendar accurate as neither the Gregorian nor the Julian came anywhere near close to the Jewish calendar for accuracy!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Well, technically your question depends on *what year* in Jesus' life he was looking at the calendar :-) but since he was Jewish, if his birthday was indeed on Christmas he probably would of thought of his birthday as the 12th of Tevet, 3761 !.!.!.give or take a couple of days due to the Gregorian Reformation where Pope Gregory recalibrated the calendar!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Jesus did not divert from what is here by questioning what year it is, apparently, its irrelevant Www@QuestionHome@Com The year of the somethingWww@QuestionHome@Com today!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |