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.
• 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,
• New Living Translation (NLT)Then John went from place to place on both sides of the Jordan River, preaching that people should be baptized to show that they had repented of their sins and turned to God to be forgiven.

Context of Luke 3:3

1In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, 2during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness. And he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. 4As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. 5Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough places shall become level ways,

Luke 3:3 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• Andκαίkai · andG2532
• he cameἔρχομαιerchomai · to come/goG2064
• intoεἰςeis · towardG1519
• allπᾶςpas · allG3956
• the country aboutπερίχωροςperichōros · regionG4066
• JordanἸορδάνηςIordanēs · JordanG2446
• preachingκηρύσσωkērussō · to preachG2784
• the baptismβάπτισμαbaptisma · baptismG908
• of repentanceμετάνοιαmetanoia · repentanceG3341
• the remissionἄφεσιςaphesis · forgivenessG859
• of sinsἁμαρτίαhamartia · sinG266

Cross-references for Luke 3:3

• Matthew 3:5Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan were going out to him,
• Mark 1:4John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
• John 1:28These things took place in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
• John 3:26And they came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you bore witness—look, he is baptizing, and all are going to him."
• Matthew 3:6and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.
• John 1:31I myself did not know him, but for this purpose I came baptizing with water, that he might be revealed to Israel."
• Acts 13:24Before his coming, John had proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
• Acts 19:4And Paul said, "John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, Jesus."
• Acts 22:16And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.'
• Luke 1:77to give knowledge of salvation to his people in 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