Luke 3:1-6

1Now in the fifteenth year of the government of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother tetrarch of Ituraea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

2in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, [the] word of 1God came upon John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.

3And he came into all the district round the Jordan, preaching [the] baptism of repentance for [the] remission of sins,

4as it is written in [the] book of [the] words of Esaias the prophet: Voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of [the] Lord, make straight his paths.

5Every gorge shall be filled up, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low, and the crooked [places] shall become a straight [path], and the rough places smooth ways,

6and all flesh shall see the salvation of 2God.