Luke 3:1-6
Holman Christian Standard Bible
The Messiah’s Herald
3 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar,[a] while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea,(A) Herod was tetrarch[b] of Galilee,(B) his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Iturea[c] and Trachonitis,[d] and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,[e] 2 during the high priesthood of Annas(C) and Caiaphas,(D) God’s word came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.(E) 3 He went into all the vicinity of the Jordan,(F) preaching a baptism of repentance[f] for the forgiveness of sins, 4 as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah:
A voice of one crying out in the wilderness:
Prepare the way for the Lord;
make His paths straight!
5 Every valley will be filled,
and every mountain and hill will be made low;[g]
the crooked will become straight,
the rough ways smooth,
6 and everyone[h] will see the salvation of God.(G)[i]
Footnotes
- Luke 3:1 Emperor who ruled the Roman Empire a.d. 14–37
- Luke 3:1 Or ruler
- Luke 3:1 A small province northeast of Galilee
- Luke 3:1 A small province northeast of Galilee
- Luke 3:1 A small Syrian province
- Luke 3:3 Or baptism based on repentance
- Luke 3:5 Lit be humbled
- Luke 3:6 Lit all flesh
- Luke 3:6 Is 40:3-5
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