Luke 2:51-3:6
New King James Version
Jesus Advances in Wisdom and Favor
51 Then He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was [a]subject to them, but His mother (A)kept all these things in her heart. 52 And Jesus (B)increased in wisdom and stature, (C)and in favor with God and men.
John the Baptist Prepares the Way(D)
3 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, (E)Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, 2 [b]while (F)Annas and Caiaphas were high priests, the word of God came to (G)John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. 3 (H)And he went into all the region around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance (I)for the remission of sins, 4 as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying:
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