Luke 3:2

And when, during the same historical period, Anan and Caiapha were Kohanim Gedolim, then it was that the dvar Hashem came to + 3:2 the kohen-navi Yochanan Ben Zecharyah bamidbar (in the wilderness).

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 shenat chamesh esreh (15 th year) of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, while Pontius Pilate was governing Yehudah, when Herod + 3:1 Antipas was tetrarch of the Galil, and when Philippos the brother of Herod Antipas was tetrarch of Iturea and Trachonitis, and at the same time Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene,

3And Yochanan went into all the surrounding region of the Yarden darshenen a tevilah of teshuva for the selichat avon,

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Cross References

Jeremiah 1:2To whom the Devar Hashem came in the days of Yoshiyah ben Amon Melech Yehudah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. + 1:2 i.e., 627 B.C.E.

Ezekiel 1:3The Devar Hashem came expressly unto Yechezkel the kohen, ben Buzi, in Eretz Kasdim (Chaldeans) by the Nahar Kevar; and the Yad Hashem was there upon him.

Jonah 1:1Now the Devar Hashem came unto Yonah ben Amittai, saying,

Zephaniah 1:1The Devar Hashem which came unto Tzephanyah ben Cushi, ben Gedalyah, ben Amaryah, ben Chizkiyah, in the yamim of Yoshiyahu (Josiah) ben Amon, Melech Yehudah. 1

Matthew 11:7As they were leaving, he began to speak to the multitudes about Yochanan, What did you go out into the midbar (wilderness) to see? A reed being shaken by the wind?

Mark 1:3KOL KOREY BAMIDBAR + 1:3 TARGUM HASHIVIM Isa 40:3 (A voice of one shouting in the wilderness): Prepare the Derech Hashem (the way of the L-rd). Make his paths yashar (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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