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46-50AD. Sometime between these dates, Paul wrote his letter to the Galatians, expressing his frustration that the Judaising Controversy had not yet been resolved, and in particular his dissatisfaction with Peter.
50AD. Paul went to Jerusalem to meet the Apostles and Elders, and the Judaising Controversy was resolved. Everybody was in agreement, including Peter. Then Paul returned to Antioch and went on his second evangelistic journey.
52AD. Paul visited Jerusalem at the end of his second journey, and then went to Antioch.
57AD. Paul wrote his letter to the Romans while in Corinth. This letter is less heated than Galatians because the Judaising Controversy had been resolved, although his main theme was still the role of the Torah in the lives of Believers who are justified by faith. Immediately after finishing his letter, he went to Phillipi, then sailed along the coast of Asia Minor, then to Jerusalem where he was taken prisoner by Felix, the Roman Procurator of Judea.
59AD. Festus took over from Felix. Paul appealed to Caesar and set off on a ship to Rome, still as a prisoner. The ship ran aground because of bad weather and they spent the winter in Malta.
60AD. Paul set off on another ship and arrived in Rome, where he was warmly greeted by the Believers. The trial before the Emperor Nero never took place because the Jews did not pursue it. Paul spent the next two years in a rented house in Rome, continuing his ministry and receiving visitors.
62AD. End of the book of Acts.
64AD. The Great Fire of Rome and the ensuing persecution of Believers. Church tradition says that Paul was beheaded, and Peter was crucified upside down, but nobody knows for sure.
This chronology is available for general use, but as was stated at the beginning, it highlights the impact of the Judaising Controversy. To exclude the Gentiles for so long, and even "G-d Fearers" like Cornelius, and then to argue about circumcising the Gentiles for so much longer, means the early Believers in Yeshua were not at all like the slightly observant Messianic Jews of today. They were more like the Chassidim, the ultra-Orthodox Jews. The Believers who came from Jerusalem were definitely like the Chassidim, and those in the outlying regions of Samaria and Galatia were still sufficiently observant to demand complete conversion to Judaism.
Those who quote the books of Romans and Galatians to people who are just dabbling in Torah observance, to try and make them abandon the Torah and go back to living like Gentiles, are really quoting the wrong books. These books were written neither for the Gentiles nor the slightly observant, but for the Chassidim, to try and persuade them to be more accommodating toward people like Cornelius and other "G-d Fearers" who had already come part of the way.
For an elaboration of this subject, see my article on How Jewish Was The Early Church?
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