Luke 3:1-2

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John the Baptist Preaches

3 Now in the fifteenth year of [Emperor] ^[a]Tiberius Caesar’s reign—when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod [Antipas] was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip was tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene— ²in the high ^[b]priesthood of Annas and ^[c]Caiaphas [his son-in-law], the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.

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Footnotes

Luke 3:1 See note Matt 22:17.
Luke 3:2 Annas served from a.d. 6-15, before being deposed by Roman authorities; however, the Jews continued to recognize him as high priest de facto even though others, including his sons and son-in-law, held the official title and publicly appeared to serve as high priest.
Luke 3:2 Served as high priest from a.d. 18-36, although Annas kept de facto authority.