How much later did Saint Paul live than Jesus Christ?

Answer 1

By the calendar, some biblical scholars date the death of Christ to April 31 AD and the subsequent death of Paul to January 67 AD. This would be 36 years after the Crucifixion & Resurrection.

Answer 2

At the very least, Jesus and Paul must have been near-contemporaries, although Paul, in his epistles, does not seem aware of this.

After his conversion to Christianity, Paul went to Arabia, then spent 3 years in Damascus, but escaped the city when the governor under Aretas, king of the Nabateans from 9 BCE to 40 CE, had a garrison deployed to arrest him because of his Christian activities (2 Corinthians 11:32-33). Even in the unlikely event that Paul was in Damascus the very year of Aretas' death, he would have converted no later than 36 CE and would have been old enough to play an important part in persecuting the Christians for some years beforehand. Other evidence suggests a much earlier date for Paul's conversion.

On this evidence, Paul is likely to have been at least thirty years old when Jesus is said to have died.

Answer 3

Saint Paul lived approximately 20-30 years after Jesus Christ. Jesus is estimated to have been crucified around 30-33 AD, while Saint Paul was active as an apostle and writer of the New Testament in the 50s and 60s AD.