New American Standard Bible 2020

Luke 3:18-25

18So with many other exhortations he preached the gospel to the people. 19But when 1Herod the tetrarch was reprimanded by him regarding 2Herodias, his brother’s wife, and regarding all the evil things which 3Herod had done, 20Herod also added this to them all: 4he locked John up in prison.

21 5Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also was baptized, and while He was 6praying, heaven was opened, 22and the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in bodily form like a dove, and a voice came from heaven: “7You are My beloved Son, in You I am well pleased.”

23 8When He began His ministry, Jesus Himself was about thirty years old, being, as was commonly held, the son of 9Joseph, 10the son of 11Eli, 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 12Hesli, the son of Naggai,

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Notes

1. Luke 3:19 Matt 14:3; Mark 6:17 ↩
2. Luke 3:19 Matt 14:3; Mark 6:17 ↩
3. Luke 3:19 Matt 14:1; Luke 3:1 ↩
4. Luke 3:20 John 3:24 ↩
5. Luke 3:21 Luke 3:21, 22: Matt 3:13-17; Mark 1:9-11 ↩
6. Luke 3:21 Matt 14:23; Luke 5:16; 9:18, 28f ↩
7. Luke 3:22 Ps 2:7; Is 42:1; Matt 3:17; 17:5; Mark 1:11; Luke 9:35; 2 Pet 1:17 ↩
8. Luke 3:23 Matt 4:17; Acts 1:1 ↩
9. Luke 3:23 Luke 3:23-27: Matt 1:16 ↩
10. Luke 3:23 Lit of Eli, and so throughout the genealogy ↩
11. Luke 3:23 Also spelled Heli ↩
12. Luke 3:25 Also spelled Esli ↩

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