The Messiah’s Herald

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar,[a] while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea,(A) Herod was tetrarch[b] of Galilee,(B) his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Iturea[c] and Trachonitis,[d] and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,[e] during the high priesthood of Annas(C) and Caiaphas,(D) God’s word came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.(E) He went into all the vicinity of the Jordan,(F) preaching a baptism of repentance[f] for the forgiveness of sins,

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 3:1 Emperor who ruled the Roman Empire a.d. 14–37
  2. Luke 3:1 Or ruler
  3. Luke 3:1 A small province northeast of Galilee
  4. Luke 3:1 A small province northeast of Galilee
  5. Luke 3:1 A small Syrian province
  6. Luke 3:3 Or baptism based on repentance

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