What does AD stand for in the Bible?
Answered from the commentary of A. J. Pollock
A.D. stands for *Anno Domini*, Latin for “in the year of our Lord”; the letters B.C. stand for “Before Christ.”
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What the commentators say
The passages the answer is drawn from, the most direct first, with the words that bear on the question marked.
At the outset this is most evident. It was His birth in the humble stable of the inn at Bethlehem that has divided time into two parts in the reckoning of the civilised nations of the world. For hundreds of years, day after day, millions upon millions have dated their letters, business men their correspondence, parliaments their statutes, as so many years since our Lord was born. The letters B.C. stand for Before Christ; the letters A.D. (Anno Domini, Latin, in the year of our Lord), stand for After Christ. This surely testifies to the very deep and profound impression that our Lord, crucified in shame and ignominy after only a very brief three-and-a-half years of public service, made on mankind.
It is only to state a bare fact, when we say that the Bible has made the very deepest mark upon the world, changing its history and altering its outlook. Every day millions of hands bear witness to the dynamic power of the Bible when they date their letters and documents Anno Domini—in the year of our Lord.
And yet this writer was not an infidel, but supposed to be an earnest Christian! I should be inclined to ask those who have republished this tract how they know Christ is risen? how they know they are children of God? how they know they have the Spirit of adoption? how they know they have passed out of death into life? how they know what dispensation they are in at the present moment? Is it only by seeing “anno Domini” placed after 1913 that we know we are in the Christian era? What is the meaning of, “Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?” (Acts 19:2). Or, “Examine yourselves, … know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?” (1 Cor. 13:3). Or, “We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren” (1 John 3:14). I might ask many other such questions, the answer to which will suffice for answers to all these questions asked by S.P.Tregelles.
About A.D.
A.D. 202
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A.D. 60
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Verses
- Matthew 1:23Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which is, being interpreted, 'God with us.'
- Mark 15:34and at the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, [saying], Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
- John 19:20This title therefore many of the Jews read, for the place of the city where Jesus was crucified was near; and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, Latin.
- Revelation 1:8I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith [the] Lord God, he who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.