The scholars believe that Jesus was born around the begning of the 1st century and died between 30 and 36 AD. Scholars estimates that Jesus started his ministry in the year of 27-29 AD.
Two independent approaches have been used to estimate the year of Jesus' birth. One is the Nativity accounts in the Gospels with other historical data and the other works backwards from the estimated start of Jesus' ministry.
The first approach applies Matthew 2:1, which associates the birth of Jesus with the reign of Herod the Great, who died around 4 BC, and Luke 1:5, which mentions that Herod was on the throne shortly before the birth of Jesus.
The second approach ignores the Nativity accounts and considers the statement in John 2:13-20 that the Temple of Jerusalem was in its 46th year of construction at the start of Jesus' ministry.
And regarding Jesus' death one approach relies on the dates of the prefecture of Pilate, who was the Roman governor of Judea from 26 AD until 36 AD.
Another approach, which yields the latest year possible for the Crucifixion is to work backwards from the conversion of Paul which is estimated at around 33–36 AD, and Jesus must have died before this.
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