Luke 3
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Luke 3:1-4

1Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when 1Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and 2Herod was tetrarch of Galilee and his brother Philip was tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene, 2in the high priesthood of 3Annas and 4Caiaphas, 5the word of God came to John, the son of Zechariah, in the wilderness. 3And he came into all 6the region around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance 7for the forgiveness of sins; 4as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet: “8The voice of one calling 9out in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, Make His paths straight!

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Notes

  1. 1. Luke 3:1 Matt 27:2 ↩
  2. 2. Luke 3:1 Matt 14:1 ↩
  3. 3. Luke 3:2 John 18:13, 24; Acts 4:6 ↩
  4. 4. Luke 3:2 Matt 26:3 ↩
  5. 5. Luke 3:2 Luke 3:3-10: Matt 3:1-10; Mark 1:3-5 ↩
  6. 6. Luke 3:3 Matt 3:5 ↩
  7. 7. Luke 3:3 Or with reference to ↩
  8. 8. Luke 3:4 Is 40:3 ↩
  9. 9. Luke 3:4 Or out, Prepare in the wilderness the way ↩

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