Original Timeline · year, month, feast, and Jubilee chronology
Jesus
Birth, ministry, death, and resurrection
One continuous KJV timeline divided by Creation year, Nisan year, Jubilee, Hebrew month, and the feasts named in John.
| Creation YearTishri Sept./Oct. | Nisan YearNisan March/April | BC / ADDec./Jan. | JubileeNisan · Year BeginsTishri 10 · Trumpet Sounds | Hebrew Month or Feast | Gospel Events and KJV Scripture | Chronology Notes |
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| 3920 | — | 3/2 BC | — | Month not statedGabriel’s announcements and John’s birth | Gabriel announces Jesus’s birth to MaryLuke 1:26–38 · KJVJohn the Baptist is bornLuke 1:57–80 · KJV | Luke supplies the order of these events but does not state their Hebrew months. |
| 3921 | — | 2/1 BC | — | Month not statedJesus is born and presented | Jesus is born in BethlehemLuke 2:1–20 · KJVJesus is circumcised, named, and presented in the templeLuke 2:21–38 · KJV | The established Creation-year placement is preserved. The precise month is not stated. The later age and Passover sequence supports examining a birth in the months shortly before Passover. |
| 3922 | — | 1 BC / AD 1 | — | Month not statedEgypt and the return to Nazareth | The wise men come; Jesus is taken into EgyptMatthew 2:1–18 · KJVJesus returns from Egypt and dwells in NazarethMatthew 2:19–23 · KJV | Herod’s death remains a separately labeled historical placement on the Rome and Herod timeline. |
| 3933 | 1486 | AD 11/12 | — | Nisan · PassoverJesus at twelve years old | Jesus goes up to Jerusalem at Passover when he is twelveLuke 2:41–52 · KJV | Luke directly joins Jesus’s stated age to Passover. Eighteen annual Passovers later, the ministry chronology reaches the first named ministry Passover near age thirty. |
| 3951 | 1503 | AD 29/30 | — | Shebat–Adar · working windowJohn prepares the way; Jesus begins | John begins preaching in Tiberius’s fifteenth yearLuke 3:1–18 · KJVJesus is baptizedMatthew 3:13–17; Mark 1:9–11; Luke 3:21–23 · KJVJesus is tempted forty daysMatthew 4:1–11; Mark 1:12–13; Luke 4:1–13 · KJVJohn identifies Jesus; the first disciples followJohn 1:19–51 · KJVJesus turns water into wine at Cana and goes briefly to CapernaumJohn 2:1–12 · KJV | Luke says Jesus was “about thirty years of age.” Forty days of temptation, the ordered days in John 1, Cana, and “not many days” at Capernaum place the baptism approximately two to three months before Passover. Shebat–Adar is a working window, not a stated baptism date. |
| 3951 | 1504 | AD 29/30 | 29th JubileeYear begins at Nisan | Nisan · First PassoverFirst named ministry Passover | Jesus goes up to Jerusalem and cleanses the templeJohn 2:13–25 · KJV | Nisan 1504 begins the twenty-ninth separate fiftieth-year Jubilee. This is the first Passover expressly named by John during Jesus’s ministry. The Jubilee trumpet sounds later in the same Nisan year, at Tishri 10. |
| 3951 | 1504 | AD 29/30 | — | After PassoverJudaea and Samaria | Nicodemus comes to Jesus by nightJohn 3:1–21 · KJVJesus ministers in Judaea; John gives his final recorded witnessJohn 3:22–36 · KJVJesus travels through Samaria and speaks with the woman at the wellJohn 4:1–42 · KJVJesus returns to Galilee and heals the nobleman’s sonJohn 4:43–54 · KJV | These events follow the first Passover in John’s written sequence. Scripture does not assign a separate calendar date to each event. |
| 3952 | 1504 | AD 30/31 | 29th JubileeTishri 10 · Trumpet Sounds | Tishri 10 · Day of AtonementThe Jubilee trumpet sounds | The trumpet sounds and liberty is proclaimed in the fiftieth yearLeviticus 25:8–13 · KJV | The Jubilee year began at Nisan 1504. Seven months later, still within Nisan year 1504, the trumpet sounds on Tishri 10. Tishri also begins the next Creation-calendar year. |
| 3952 | 1504 | AD 30/31 | — | Tishri 15 · possible TabernaclesThe unnamed feast at Jerusalem | Jesus goes up to Jerusalem for “a feast of the Jews”John 5:1 · KJVJesus heals the man at Bethesda on the sabbathJohn 5:2–18 · KJVJesus teaches concerning the Son, resurrection, judgment, and witnessesJohn 5:19–47 · KJV | John never calls this feast Passover. Israel’s men were commanded to appear at Jerusalem for Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles. If this unnamed feast is Tabernacles, it begins at Tishri 15, five days after the Jubilee trumpet; the identification remains plainly marked as an inference. |
| 3952 | 1504–1505 | AD 30/31 | — | Between the unnamed feast and PassoverJesus’s Galilean ministry | Jesus teaches throughout Galilee and calls disciplesMatthew 4:12–25; Mark 1:14–39; Luke 4:14–44 · KJVThe Sermon on the MountMatthew 5–7 · KJVJesus heals, forgives sins, and calls MatthewMatthew 8:1–13; 9:1–13 · KJVJesus raises the widow’s son and answers John’s messengersLuke 7:11–35 · KJVJesus teaches in parablesMatthew 13:1–53; Mark 4:1–34; Luke 8:4–18 · KJVJesus stills the storm, delivers the possessed man, and raises Jairus’s daughterMark 4:35–5:43; Luke 8:22–56 · KJVJesus sends out the twelveMatthew 10:1–42; Mark 6:7–13; Luke 9:1–6 · KJV | Matthew, Mark, and Luke supply much of the work occurring between John’s annual feast anchors. These events follow their general Gospel order; no unsupported month is assigned to them. |
| 3952 | 1505 | AD 30/31 | — | Nisan · Second PassoverSecond named ministry Passover | John records that Passover was nighJohn 6:1–4 · KJVJesus feeds five thousandMatthew 14:13–21; Mark 6:30–44; Luke 9:10–17; John 6:5–14 · KJVJesus walks upon the seaMatthew 14:22–33; Mark 6:45–52; John 6:15–21 · KJVJesus teaches that he is the bread of lifeJohn 6:22–71 · KJV | John 6:4 expressly names Passover. The feeding of the five thousand is recorded in all four Gospels and joins their narratives at this feast anchor. |
| 3952 | 1505 | AD 30/31 | — | Nisan to TishriToward the named Feast of Tabernacles | Jesus ministers in Tyre, Sidon, and DecapolisMatthew 15:21–39; Mark 7:24–8:10 · KJVPeter confesses that Jesus is the ChristMatthew 16:13–28; Mark 8:27–9:1; Luke 9:18–27 · KJVJesus is transfiguredMatthew 17:1–13; Mark 9:2–13; Luke 9:28–36 · KJVJesus sets his face toward JerusalemLuke 9:51–62 · KJV | These works stand between John’s second named Passover and the expressly named Feast of Tabernacles. |
| 3953 | 1505 | AD 31/32 | — | Tishri · TabernaclesThe named Feast of Tabernacles | John names the Feast of TabernaclesJohn 7:1–13 · KJVJesus teaches in the temple during the feastJohn 7:14–53 · KJVJesus declares himself the light of the worldJohn 8:1–59 · KJVJesus heals the man born blindJohn 9:1–41 · KJVJesus teaches concerning the good shepherdJohn 10:1–21 · KJV | Unlike John 5, John 7:2 expressly identifies this feast as Tabernacles. Tishri begins the next Creation-calendar year while the Nisan year remains 1505. |
| 3953 | 1505 | AD 31/32 | — | Kislev · DedicationThe Feast of Dedication in winter | Jesus walks in Solomon’s porch at the Feast of DedicationJohn 10:22–39 · KJVJesus goes again beyond JordanJohn 10:40–42 · KJV | John expressly names Dedication and states that it was winter. Dedication begins on Kislev 25. |
| 3953 | 1505 | AD 31/32 | — | After Dedication · before PassoverThe journey toward the final Passover | Jesus teaches on the journey toward JerusalemLuke 13–18 · KJVJesus raises Lazarus from the deadJohn 11:1–46 · KJVThe council determines to put Jesus to deathJohn 11:47–54 · KJVThe final Passover draws nighJohn 11:55–12:1 · KJV | The events lead directly from Dedication in winter toward the final Passover. Their order is stated; an exact month for each is not. |
| 3953 | 1506 | AD 31/32 | — | Nisan · Final PassoverThird named ministry Passover | Jesus enters JerusalemMatthew 21:1–17; Mark 11:1–11; Luke 19:28–48; John 12:12–19 · KJVJesus teaches in the temple and on the mount of OlivesMatthew 21–25; Mark 11–13; Luke 20–21 · KJVJesus keeps the Passover with his disciplesMatthew 26:17–35; Mark 14:12–31; Luke 22:7–38; John 13–17 · KJVJesus is arrested, examined, and delivered to be crucifiedMatthew 26:36–27:26; Mark 14:32–15:15; Luke 22:39–23:25; John 18:1–19:15 · KJVMessiah is cut off: Jesus is crucified and diesMatthew 27:27–56; Mark 15:16–41; Luke 23:26–49; John 19:16–37; Daniel 9:26 · KJVJesus is laid in the sepulchre before the sabbathMatthew 27:57–66; Mark 15:42–47; Luke 23:50–56; John 19:38–42 · KJVOn the first day of the week, Jesus rises from the deadMatthew 28:1–10; Mark 16:1–14; Luke 24:1–49; John 20:1–29 · KJV | This is John’s third named ministry Passover. The resulting chronology is approximately two years and two to three months from baptism to death—extending into a third year inclusively, but not three and a half years. |
What the feast and Jubilee columns show
John names three ministry Passovers: John 2, John 6, and the final Passover beginning in John 11. John 5 identifies only “a feast of the Jews.” Tabernacles is displayed there only as a possible chronological identification, never as an expressly named feast. The twenty-ninth Jubilee year begins at Nisan 1504; its trumpet sounds seven months later at Tishri 10 within that same Nisan year.