having happened between that phenomenon and the Passover of that year. 3. The fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius cannot begin before the month Tisri,1 of the twenty-seventh year of the Dionysian Era. 4. Our Lord, when He was about thirty years old, was baptized, and, after forty days, tempted of the Devil, some time before the Passover of the twenty-eighth year of the Dionysian Era. 5. In that same year, and no other, could the Temple have been said to have been forty-six years in building.—