Luk 3:1-6 | ESV | STEP | In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar , Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea , and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee , and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis , and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene ,

Luke 3:1-6

John the Baptist Prepares the Way

1 In the fifteenth year of the reign of ^aTiberius Caesar, ^bPontius Pilate ^cbeing governor of Judea, and ^dHerod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, 2 during ^ethe high priesthood of Annas and ^fCaiaphas, ^gthe word of God came to ^hJohn the son of Zechariah in ⁱthe wilderness. 3 And he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming ^ja baptism of repentance ^kfor the forgiveness of sins. 4 As it is written in ^lthe book of the words of Isaiah the prophet,

^m“The voice of one crying in the wilderness:
ⁿ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, ^{▼▼Or crying, Prepare in the wilderness the way of the Lord}
make his paths straight.
5 ^pEvery valley shall be filled,
^qand every mountain and hill shall be made low,
^rand the crooked shall become straight,
and the rough places shall become level ways,
6 ^sand all flesh shall see ^tthe salvation of God.’”