Acts 9.31 = 37CE?

(My thanks to Richard Fellows for bringing this to my attention some time ago.)

Acts 9.31 reads: “So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was built up; and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit it was multiplied” (RSV). Most chronologies place this peaceful interlude during the late 30s. Vitellius appointed Theophilus be Annas to be high priest in 37CE. I wonder if perhaps Luke is appealing to Theophilus by recognizing that his service was characterized as mild or ‘peaceful’ (in relation to the Jesus movement) compared to the services of his father Annas, brother-in-law Caiaphas and brothers Eleazar and Jonathan. I cannot find another like statement in Acts.

Lee