The Acts of the Apostles

34 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
We may thus conclude that there is absolutely no
difference between the chronological terminology of
the we-sections and that which is employed in the
rest of the work, and that so far as chronological
procedure is concerned the we-sections cannot be dis-
tinguished from the work as a separate source.
Moreover, even apart from terminology, the character
and the extent of the author's employment of chrono-
logy is quite similar and consistent throughout the
whole work. If the author possessed written sources
for the Acts, then—so far as we can judge from his
procedure in regard to chronology—he has not
pieced them together unskilfully and corrected them
clumsily throughout, but has used them freely, just as
one would use oral sources.
APPENDIX II
Ckronolo^iccd Information to he gainedfrom the Acts
The careful reader of the Acts could derive from
the book the following pieces of chronological information
: From the gospel he knew that our Lord
was born under Augustus, that He entered upon His
public ministry in the fifteenth year of Tiberius
Caesar, and that He was crucified under the procurator
Pilate and the tetrarch Herod Antipas. It was not
difficult for him to ascertain that Tiberius died in the
year a.d. 37, that Antipas was banished in a.d. 39,
and that Pilate was recalled in the year a.d. 36.
From Acts xi. 28, xii. 1, he would see that the foun-
dation of the first Gentile Christian community (in