Calendar Generator

Q: WHAT YEAR WAS THE BIRTH OF CHRIST?

A: IT DEPENDS WHAT CALENDAR YOU ARE USING!

On the Gregorian calendar (the one you might have on your wall) the year was 5 BC.*

On the Hebrew calendar, sometimes called the biblical calendar, the year was 4042 AM.*

*Note: Regarding the timeline of Christ’s death, the following breakdown will make clear the passage of time:

Christ was born in the fall of 5 BC. From the fall of 5 BC to the fall of 1 BC is 4 years. From the fall of 1 BC to the fall of 26 AD is 26 years, placing His age at 30 years when He began His ministry, as stated in Luke 3:23. The reason for confusion is that we think in terms of the Gregorian calendar rather than the Hebrew calculated calendar, which of course, was the calendar used by the writers of the New Testament.

The Hebrew calendar begins in the spring of the year, the time of the Passover, meaning that He was 33 & ½ years old at His death. He was crucified at the very beginning of 30 AD, which cannot be counted.

RELATED VERSES

Luke 2:7-8 – 7 And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. 8 Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night.

YEAR 4042 am

5 BC

Holy DayStart DayEnd
Passover Wed, Mar 27
Unleavened Bread Thurs, Mar 28Apr 3
Pentecost Sun, May 19
Trumpets Sat, Sep 7
Atonement Mon, Sep 16
Tabernacles Sat, Sep 21Sep 27
Last Great Day (8th Day) Sat, Sep 28
THE ABOVE DATES ARE OBSERVED THE PREVIOUS EVENING, AFTER SUNSET
QuestionAnswer
What 247 year period from creation?17
Which 19 year time cycle of the 13 in the 247 year period?213
What year in the 19 year time cycle?14
Hebrew Calendar Days 383
Solar Calendar Days 365
Difference between the solar and Hebrew calendars 18
Difference between last year and present year
Last Year's Difference -18
Gregorian Calendar
Hebrew Calendar
Total # of Sabbaths
Solar Calendar

THE BELOW DATES REPRESENT THE SABBATHS OF EACH MONTH

Year 4042 AM (After Man)
Passover
Mar 27
Unleavened Bread
Mar 28
Apr 3
Pentecost
May 19
Feast of Trumpets
Sep 7
Day of Atonement
Sep 16
Feast of Tabernacles
Sep 21
Sep 27
Last Great Day
Sep 28
The above dates are observed the previous evening, after sunset
How many 247 Year Cycles
16

Hebrew Calendar
383
Solar Calendar
365
Which 19 year cycle
Fifth

Difference
18
Last Year
-4
Where in 19 year cycle
14

Differences
14
Gregorian Calendar
Hebrew Calendar
Solar Calendar
Demonstration of Math
Previous Year
The below dates represent the sabbaths of each month
Next Year
Jan
6
Tev
21
4041
294
 
13
 
28
 
301
 
20
Shev
6
 
308
 
27
 
13
 
315
Feb
3
 
20
 
322
 
10
 
27
 
329
 
17
Adar
4
 
336
 
24
 
11
 
343
Mar
2
 
18
 
350
 
9
 
25
 
357
 
16
Nisan
3
210849
364
 
23
 
10
4042
6
 
30
 
17
 
13
Apr
6
 
24
 
20
 
13
Iyar
1
 
27
 
20
 
8
 
34
 
27
 
15
 
41
May
4
 
22
 
48
 
11
 
29
 
55
 
18
Sivan
7
 
62
 
25
 
14
 
69
Jun
1
 
21
 
76
 
8
 
28
 
83
 
15
Tamm
5
 
90
 
22
 
12
 
97
 
29
 
19
 
104
Jul
6
 
26
 
111
 
13
Av
4
 
118
 
20
 
11
 
125
 
27
 
18
 
132
Aug
3
 
25
 
139
 
10
Elul
2
 
146
 
17
 
9
 
153
 
24
 
16
 
160
 
31
 
23
 
167
Sep
7
Tish
1
 
174
 
14
 
8
 
181
 
21
 
15
 
188
 
28
 
22
 
195
Oct
5
 
29
 
202
 
12
Chesh
6
 
209
 
19
 
13
 
216
 
26
 
20
 
223
Nov
2
 
27
 
230
 
9
Kis
5
 
237
 
16
 
12
 
244
 
23
 
19
 
251
 
30
 
26
 
258
Dec
7
Tev
4
 
265
 
14
 
11
 
272
 
21
 
18
 
279
4 BC
28
 
25
 
286
Jan
4
Shev
3
 
293
 
11
 
10
 
300
 
18
 
17
 
307
 
25
 
24
 
314
Feb
1
Adar
1
 
321
 
8
 
8
 
328
 
15
 
15
 
335
 
22
 
22
210898
342

GREGORIAN CALENDAR (THE ONE YOU HAVE ON YOUR DESK OR WALL)

Christian Biblical Calendar Converter Abbreviations: BC/AD (Before Christ/Anno Domini) or BCE/CE (Before Common Era/After Common Era)

The Gregorian calendar is sometimes called the Christian calendar or Western calendar. Some calendar scholars reference the Julian calendar, which is similar but lacks modern leap year corrections.


HEBREW CALENDAR (THE ONE IN THE BIBLE)

Abbreviations: AM (Anno Mundi – Latin: “in the year of the world”, Hebrew: “from the creation of the world”)

The Hebrew calendar is sometimes called the Biblical calendar or Jewish calendar, which draws from the Old Testament and calls creation the start of year 1. Converting the calendar is sometimes tricky because the first day of the year 1 is not January 1st.
 

ANCIENT HEBREW CALENDAR CONVERTER

The above tool allows you to enter either the Gregorian calendar date (like 2015, 2016 or 2017) or the Hebrew calendar date and switch between the two.