Topic(s):  Bible Study, Church

Todd Clippard

The teaching that the establishment of the church took place somewhere around the year A.D. 33 is based upon a couple of premises:

1) Jesus was baptized and began His public ministry when He was about 30 years old (Luke 3:21-23); and . . .

2) According to the chronology revealed in the New Testament, Jesus' earthly ministry covered about three years.

The problem with trying to fix the date at A.D. 33 is that most scholars now believe Jesus was born about 4 years earlier than when the modern calendar was instituted. Therefore, in relation to our present calendar, Jesus was born in 4 B.C.