Luke 3:2-4

New International Reader's Version

² Annas and Caiaphas were high priests. At that time God’s word came to John, son of Zechariah, in the desert. ³ He went into all the countryside around the Jordan River. There he preached that people should be baptized and turn away from their sins. Then God would forgive them. ⁴ Here is what is written in the book of Isaiah the prophet. It says,