The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

§. 3. The year of Tiberius his reign at our Saviours death.

This year is determined by common consent of Historians to be his eighteenth: and the matter is past all doubt, if it were as certain that Christ was Baptized in the fifteenth year of Tiberius, as it is certain that John began to baptize. For whereas John began to baptize about the vernal Equinox, and Christ was not baptized till the Autumnal, beginning just then to enter upon his thirtieth year, and whereas Tiberius began to reign about the 18 day of August, as appeareth by the Roman Historians▪ the fifteenth year of Tiberius in exact accounting was expired some weeks before Christ was baptized. And therefore though Luke say that in the fifteenth year of Tiberius John came baptizing, Luke 3. 1. yet was it in the sixteenth year of Tiberius (as it seemeth) before Christ came to his baptism: and so should the death of our Saviour fall into Tiberius his nine∣teenth year. But it is not safe to hang the Chronology of all succeeding times upon so small a pin as this: therefore according to the universal consent and determination of all Christian writers, we will take the eighteenth year of Tiberius to have been the year of Christs death, resurrection, and ascension, and accordingly compute and reckon the times of the succeeding Emperors that we have to go through proportionate or agree∣able to this beginning.

The Roman Consuls for this year that we have in hand were Cn▪ Domitius and Camillus Scribonianus, as is obvious to any eye that counteth, the years and Consuls in the time of Tiberius.