Berean Standard Bible

Luke 3:16-38

16John answered all of them: “I baptize you with water,1 but One more powerful than I will come, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.2 He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.3 17His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather the wheat into His barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

18With these and many other exhortations, John proclaimed the good news to the people. 19But when he rebuked Herod the tetrarch regarding his brother’s wife Herodias and all the evils he had done, 20Herod added this to them all: He locked John up in prison.

21When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as He was praying, heaven was opened, 22and the Holy Spirit descended on Him in a bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased.”

23Jesus Himself was about thirty years old when He began His ministry.

He was regarded as the son of Joseph,the son of Heli,24the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi,the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph,25the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum,the son of Esli, the son of Naggai,26the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein,the son of Josech, the son of Joda,27the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel,the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri,28the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam,the son of Elmadam, the son of Er,29the son of Joshua, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim,the son of Matthat, the son of Levi,30the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph,the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim,31the son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha,the son of Nathan, the son of David,32the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz,the son of Sala,4 the son of Nahshon,33the son of Amminadab, the son of Admin,5 the son of Arni,6the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,34the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham,the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,35the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg,the son of Eber, the son of Shelah,36the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem,the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,37the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared,the son of Mahalalel, the son of Cainan,38the son of Enosh,7 the son of Seth, the son of Adam,the son of God.

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Notes

1. Luke 3:16 Or in water ↩
2. Luke 3:16 Cited in Acts 13:25 ↩
3. Luke 3:16 Or in the Holy Spirit and in fire ↩
4. Luke 3:32 BYZ and TR Salmon; see Ruth 4:20–21 and Matthew 1:4–5. ↩
5. Luke 3:33 BYZ and TR Aram; others Ram; see Ruth 4:19 and Matthew 1:3–4. ↩
6. Luke 3:33 WH, BYZ, and TR do not include the son of Arni. ↩
7. Luke 3:38 Greek Enōs, a variant spelling of Enosh; see Genesis 5:6. ↩

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