40

The year 40 AD.
==Events==
* The Sanhedrin ceases to function in its full mode.
* Possible date for the writing of 3 Maccabees.
* Peter's vision of the sheet ("What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.") prompts him to accept Cornelius the centurion as the first Gentile convert to Christianity. (Acts 10)
==Deaths==
* Philo of Alexandria
Category:1st century