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P.1512 - §4 (Jesus was almost thirty-one
and one-half years old when he was baptized. While Luke says that Jesus
was baptized in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, which
would be A.D. 29 since Augustus died in A.D. 14, it should be recalled that
Tiberius was coemperor with Augustus for two and one-half years before the
death of Augustus, having had coins struck in his honor in October, A.D.
11. The fifteenth year of his actual rule was, therefore, this very year
of A.D. 26, that of Jesus' baptism. And this was also the year that Pontius
Pilate began his rule as governor of Judea.) |
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Ref Tiberius AR Denarius, RIC 26, RSC 16, BMC 34
Tiberius. 14-37 AD. AR Denarius. TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVGVST, laureate
head right / PONTIF MAXIM, Livia, as Pax, seated right; plain legs to
chair. BMCRE 34; RSC 16.
Images courtesy of Ira and Larry Goldberg, Beverly Hills,
CA via WildWinds.com.
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