This timeline depicts the order in which the events shown or mentioned in Saw: Rebirth probably occurred.
Saw: Rebirth[]
- John Kramer takes up a job at the toy division of Standard Engineering Ltd.
- John Kramer's girlfriend, Jill Tuck, separates from him due to his inert personality and lack of ambitions.
- Several years pass.
- John Kramer visits a hospital and is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor by the oncologist Dr. Lawrence Gordon.
- John Kramer makes acquaintance with an orderly named Zep Hindle.
- Amanda Young survives a heroin overdose and is taken to the same hospital as John Kramer.
- Paul, one of John Kramer's colleagues from the toy factory, unsuccessfully attempts suicide by slicing his wrists and is taken to the same hospital as John.
- John Kramer attempts suicide by driving his car off a cliff.
- John Kramer survives his attempted suicide and decides to test other people's will to live to make them appreciate their lives and the lives of those around them.
- John Kramer targets and observes his test subjects, starting with the people he met at the hospital - Amanda Young, Paul, and Mark, whom he suspects of being a scam artist.
- John Kramer develops and tests several potentially deadly scenarios to test his victims' survival instincts.