Luke 3:2

Annas and Caiaphas being chief priests, the word of God came to John the son of Zachariah, in the wilderness.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.

In Context

1In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip was tetrarch of Iturea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene,

3And he came into all the country about the Jordan, preaching the immersion of repentance in order to the remission of sins;

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Cross References

Matthew 11:7As these were going away, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John: What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

Mark 1:3The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

Matthew Henry on Luke 3:2-15

Ministry of John the Baptist. 1 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judæa, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituræa and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene, 2 Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. 3 And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; 4 As it is… Read the whole commentary →

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