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Luke 3:19
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

19 [a]Now Herod the tetrarch,(A) who had been censured by him because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and because of all the evil deeds Herod had committed,

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  1. 3:19–20 Luke separates the ministry of John the Baptist from that of Jesus by reporting the imprisonment of John before the baptism of Jesus (Lk 3:21–22). Luke uses this literary device to serve his understanding of the periods of salvation history. With John the Baptist, the time of promise, the period of Israel, comes to an end; with the baptism of Jesus and the descent of the Spirit upon him, the time of fulfillment, the period of Jesus, begins. In his second volume, the Acts of the Apostles, Luke will introduce the third epoch in salvation history, the period of the church.
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