Luke 3:3

Luke 3:3 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;
• New International Version (NIV)He went into all the country around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And he went into all the region around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins,

Context of Luke 3:3

1In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, 2during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness. He went into all the region around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, 4as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him. 5Every valley shall be filled in, and every mountain and hill made low. The crooked ways shall be made straight, and the rough ways smooth.

Luke 3:3 word by word

καὶ ἦλθεν εἰς πᾶσαν τὴν περίχωρον τοῦ Ἰορδάνου κηρύσσων βάπτισμα μετανοίας εἰς ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶνRead the interlinear

• ·καίkai · andG2532
• He wentἔρχομαιerchomai · to come/goG2064
• intoεἰςeis · towardG1519
• allπᾶςpas · allG3956
• theὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• region aroundπερίχωροςperichōros · regionG4066
• JordanἸορδάνηςIordanēs · JordanG2446
• preachingκηρύσσωkērussō · to preachG2784
• a baptismβάπτισμαbaptisma · baptismG908
• of repentanceμετάνοιαmetanoia · repentanceG3341
• forgivenessἄφεσιςaphesis · forgivenessG859
• of sinsἁμαρτίαhamartia · sinG266

Cross-references for Luke 3:3

• Matthew 3:5People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region around the Jordan.
• Mark 1:4John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
• John 1:28All this happened at Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
• John 3:26So John’s disciples came to him and said, “Look, Rabbi, the One who was with you beyond the Jordan, the One you testified about—He is baptizing, and everyone is going to Him.”
• Matthew 3:6Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
• John 1:31I myself did not know Him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that He might be revealed to Israel.”
• Acts 13:24Before the arrival of Jesus, John preached a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
• Acts 19:4Paul explained: “John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the One coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”
• Acts 22:16And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and wash your sins away, calling on His name.’
• Luke 1:77to give to His people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins,

Commentaries on Luke 3:3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3The baptism of repentance - See on Matthew 3:4-6; (note), and Mark 1:1; (note), etc., and Mark 16 (note) at the end.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3-9Verses 3-9 On the baptism of John - see the notes at Matthew 3.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins: John seems to have adapted the practice of baptism from Jewish rites using water to cleanse, or set apart, people and objects for God’s service (compare Leviticus 8:6). John called people to repent of their sins and prepare spiritually for the Messiah’s coming. Their baptism publicly demonstrated their repentance and spiritual cleansing.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-20(See on Mt 3:1-12; Mr 6:17, &c.). 1-2. Here the curtain of the New Testament is, as it were, drawn up, and the greatest of all epochs of the Church commences. Even our Lord's own age (Lu 3:23) is determined by it [Bengel]. No such elaborate chronological precision is to be found elsewhere in the New Testament, and it comes fitly from him who claims it as the peculiar recommendation of his Gospel, that he had "accurately traced down all things from the…Read the comment

Topics related to Luke 3:3

• John
• Judea
• Preaching
• Repentance
• Sin

In the dictionaries

• Jordan
• Jordan River, Jordan
• Remission of Sins
• Demand
• Mary
• Reprove
• Unquenchable
• Violence
• Wages
• Antediluvian Patriarchs

Commentaries on Luke 3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings