Luke 3:1-6

John the Baptist Preaches

1 Now 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,

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

3 And he came into all ⁶the district around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins;

4 as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "⁷THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS, 'MAKE READY THE WAY OF THE LORD, MAKE HIS PATHS STRAIGHT.

5 '⁸EVERY RAVINE WILL BE FILLED, AND EVERY MOUNTAIN AND HILL WILL BE BROUGHT LOW; THE CROOKED WILL BECOME * STRAIGHT, AND THE ROUGH ROADS SMOOTH;

6 ⁹AND ALL FLESH WILL ¹⁰SEE THE SALVATION OF GOD.' "

Cross References

• 1. Matthew 27:2
• 2. Matthew 14:1
• 3. John 18:13, 24; Acts 4:6
• 4. Matthew 26:3
• 5. Luke 3:3-10: {Matthew 3:1-10; Mark 1:3-5}
• 6. Matthew 3:5
• 7. Isaiah 40:3
• 8. Isaiah 40:4
• 9. Isaiah 40:5
• 10. Luke 2:30

Footnotes

• [a] Or "leveled"
• [b] Or "mankind"