Introduction to 1 Corinthians

E.The believer’s victory over death (15:50-58)

V.Conclusion (16:1-24)

A.Collection for the believers at Jerusalem (16:1-4)

B.Paul’s plans for visiting Corinth (16:5-9)

C.Exhortations, instructions, and salutations (16:10-24)

Corinth is founded by Dorian Greeks. 1000

Corinth is ruled by Cypselus (657-627) and his son Periander. (627-585)

Periander mints Corinthian coins and constructs the diolkos, a five-foot-wide rock-cut path that ran four miles between two seaports, Lechaion on the Gulf of Corinth and Cenchreae on the Saronic Gulf. 600

The Isthmian games begin and are held every two years to honor Poseidon, the god of the sea. 582

Temple of Apollo is constructed. 550

Corinth sides with Sparta and prevails against Athens in the Peloponnesian War. 430

Population of Corinth reaches 100,000. 400

Phillip II of Macedon conquers Corinth. 338

After Phillip II’s assassination, the Greeks at the Isthmian games choose Phillip’s son, Alexander the Great, to lead them in war with Persia. 336

The Corinthians attempt to resist Roman expansion in Greece and are destroyed by the Roman general Lucius Mummius. 146

Julius Caesar rebuilds Corinth as a colony of Rome naming it Colonia Laus Julia Corinthiensis. 44 BC

Augustus Caesar makes Corinth the capital of Achaia. 27 BC

Jesus’s trials, death, resurrection, and ascension Nisan 14-16 or April 3-5, AD 33

Pentecost AD 33

Saul’s conversion on the Damascus Road October AD 34

Paul arrives in Corinth and spends eighteen months planting the church. 50-51

Paul’s hearing before Corinth’s proconsul, Gallio, brother of the Roman philosopher Seneca 51

Paul writes 1 Corinthians from Ephesus. 56

Paul writes 2 Corinthians from Ephesus. 56

Paul spends the winter in Corinth, from where he writes Romans. 57

Clement of Rome, the earliest of the apostolic fathers, sends a letter from Rome to the church at Corinth. This is thought to be the earliest Christian document outside the books of the New Testament. 96