What date is Acts 11 set at in the chronology?
Acts 11 is set around 41–42 in the chronology, approximately twelve to thirteen years after Pentecost. The passage includes a flashback to the seven years after Pentecost at the time of Stephen’s death, but the narrative’s present point is beyond Saul’s conversion.
Les explains that Acts 11 has a flashback to the seven years after Pentecost, at the time of Stephen’s death. However, in the chronology the narrative is already beyond Saul’s conversion. He places the current point at about 41–42, roughly 12–13 years after Pentecost. At that time, believers who had been scattered from Jerusalem were migrating up to Antioch, north of Palestine, in the area of what would be called Lebanon today.