Luke 3:2

2 during 1the high priesthood of Annas and 2Caiaphas, 3the word of God came to 4John the son of Zechariah in 5the wilderness.

Luke 3:2 In-Context

1 In 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,
2 during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.
3 And he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
4 As 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.
5 Every 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,

Cross References 5

  • 1. John 18:13, 24; Acts 4:6
  • 2. See Matthew 26:3
  • 3. For ver. 2-17, see Matthew 3:1-12; Mark 1:2-8
  • 4. John 1:6, 7
  • 5. Luke 1:80; Joshua 15:61; [Judges 1:16]
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